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Atlanta Hawks head coach Quin Snyder speaks in the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Boston Celtics, Monday, March 30, 2026, in Atlanta. (AP Photo\/Mike Stewart)<\/p>\n
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Sunday is the final day of the NBA regular season, and here\u2019s a full listing of all the playoff and postseason matchups that have been decided.<\/p>\n
\u2022 None.<\/p>\n
There are 10 teams that are locked into specific seeds in the Eastern and Western Conferences, there are 10 other teams that know their seasons will end on Sunday and 10 more still have some level of uncertainty going into the final day of the six-month grind that precedes the NBA postseason.<\/p>\n
By the end of Sunday, four first-round series matchups \u2014 those starting next weekend \u2014 will be known, as will the first four play-in tournament matchups that will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re just excited to be in this situation,\u201d said Atlanta coach Quin Snyder, whose Hawks are playoff-bound \u2014 but don\u2019t know if they\u2019ll be the No. 5 or No. 6 seed in the East, so they obviously don\u2019t know their first-round matchup either.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhoever we play is going to be really good,\u201d Snyder said. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to even try to figure that out. It\u2019s possible that certain teams want to play us. \u2026 We don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen. It\u2019s hard to predict all these games that are going on. Wherever it falls is how it falls.\u201d<\/p>\n
No team needs to win on Sunday to extend its season. There are 10 teams eliminated from postseason contention who all know Game 82 is the end of the road. But for the other 20 teams, there will be an 83rd game, either in the play-in this coming week or in the playoffs that start next weekend.<\/p>\n
That doesn\u2019t mean those 20 teams all have nothing to play for Sunday. There are seeds to grab, and in some cases, a team could essentially manipulate how their side of the bracket sorts itself out. If San Antonio beats Denver, for example, the Spurs would assure themselves of not having to face Oklahoma City or the Nuggets until the Western Conference finals.<\/p>\n
A Nuggets loss would mean LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers \u2014 provided they beat Utah on Sunday \u2014 would finish as the West\u2019s No. 3 seed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sure everybody wants to play us,\u201d Lakers coach J.J. Redick said. \u201cLet\u2019s get that out there \u2014 everybody wants to play us. There are probably teams that are in a position where they can start looking forward to potential second-round matchups as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
The breakdown<\/p>\n
\u2022 Seeds clinched: Detroit (East 1), Oklahoma City (West 1), Boston (East 2), San Antonio (West 2), New York (East 3), Cleveland (East 4), Houston (West 5), Minnesota (West 6), Phoenix (West 7 for play-in), Golden State (West 10 for play-in).<\/p>\n
\u2022 Playoff-bound, seed still TBA: Denver (3 or 4 in West), Los Angeles Lakers (3 or 4 in West), Atlanta (5 or 6 in East).<\/p>\n
\u2022 Playoff or play-in bound: Toronto, Orlando, Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Play-in bound, seed still TBA: Los Angeles Clippers, Portland, Charlotte, Miami.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Season ends Sunday: Milwaukee, Chicago, New Orleans, Memphis, Dallas, Sacramento, Utah, Brooklyn, Indiana, Washington.<\/p>\n
Stat races<\/p>\n
All the major statistical titles have been decided, barring the most mathematically improbable events of all-time happening on Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Scoring: Luka Doncic of the Lakers (33.5 per game) will win, unless something happens like Oklahoma City\u2019s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scoring 194 points on Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Rebounding: Nikola Jokic of the Nuggets (12.9 per game) will win, unless something happens like New York\u2019s Karl-Anthony Towns grabbing at least 95 rebounds on Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Assists: Jokic (10.9 per game) will win. unless something happens like Detroit\u2019s Cade Cunningham getting at least 77 assists on Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Blocked shots: Victor Wembanyama of the Spurs (3.1 per game) will win, unless something happens like Oklahoma City\u2019s Chet Holmgren blocking at least 85 shots on Sunday.<\/p>\n
(So, yes, it\u2019s safe to assume those races have been decided.)<\/p>\n
Doncic won\u2019t play Sunday for the Lakers, meaning he\u2019ll fall short of the 65-game rule for award eligibility, and Jokic needs to play Sunday to hit that number. That means it\u2019s actually possible the NBA scoring, rebound and assist champions will all be ineligible to appear on the ballots that will decide the All-NBA teams, MVP and other major awards.<\/p>\n
Draft odds update<\/p>\n
The teams with the three worst records are set: Washington will be worst, with Indiana and Brooklyn second- and third-worst in some order. That means those three teams will have the best odds \u2014 14% each \u2014 of winning the No. 1 pick in next month\u2019s draft lottery.<\/p>\n
And Washington can\u2019t finish lower than fifth in the lottery.<\/p>\n
Utah and Sacramento would both see draft-lottery benefits from losses on Sunday \u2014 especially the Jazz, who could assure themselves of keeping a pick that would be guaranteed to be in the top eight.<\/p>\n
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