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The 2025-26 NBA regular season draws to a close on Sunday with every team in action one last time. Here is a look at where everything stands<\/a> and all the seeding scenarios<\/a> still at stake. At the conclusion of Sunday’s games, we will know two of the four first-round series matchups in each conference (3 vs. 6 and 4 vs. 5), as well as the first four play-in games.\u00a0<\/p>\n In the West, six of the 10 postseason seeds are set: the Thunder and Spurs will be Nos. 1 and 2. The Rockets are the fifth seed, the Wolves are the sixth seed, and the Suns (No. 7) and Warriors (No. 10) are on opposite ends of the Play-In Tournament.<\/p>\n In the East, the Raptors clinched the final playoff spot on Sunday, with the 76ers and Magic both heading to the Play-In Tournament.<\/p>\n Below is a look at what we know about the postseason schedule so far, with play-in games set to begin on Tuesday. The Play-In Tournament<\/a> runs through Friday, with the playoffs beginning on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n This post will be updated as dates and times are revealed.<\/p>\n Play-In Tournament schedule<\/p>\n Tuesday, April 14\u00a0<\/p>\n Hornets<\/a>\u00a0vs.\u00a0Heat<\/a>, 7:30 p.m. ET, Prime — Loser is eliminated from postseasonSuns<\/a>\u00a0vs. Trail Blazers\/Clippers, 10 p.m. ET, Prime — Winner gets West No. 7 seed<\/p>\n Wednesday, April 15<\/p>\n 76ers vs. Magic, 7:30 p.m. ET, Prime — Winner gets East No. 7 seedTrail Blazers\/Clippers vs.\u00a0Warriors<\/a>, 10 p.m. ET, Prime — Loser is eliminated from postseason<\/p>\n Friday, April 17<\/p>\n 76ers\/Magic vs. Hornets\/Heat, 7:30 p.m. ET, Prime — Winner gets East No. 8 seed, loser is eliminated from postseasonTBD vs. TBD, 10 p.m. ET, Prime — Winner gets West No. 8 seed, loser is eliminated from postseason2026 NBA playoffs schedule<\/p>\n Saturday, April 18<\/p>\n Four first-round playoff games (times and matchups TBD)<\/p>\n Sunday, April 19<\/p>\n Four first-round playoff games (times and matchups TBD)<\/p>\n The rest of the first-round schedule will be released in the coming days.<\/p>\n 2026 NBA playoffs key datesApril 18-19: First-round series beginMay 2-4: Second round beginsMay 10: 2026 NBA Draft<\/a> LotteryMay 19: Eastern Conference Finals beginMay 20: Western Conference Finals beginJune 3: NBA<\/a> Finals Game 1June 19: NBA Finals Game 7 (if necessary)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images The 2025-26 NBA regular season draws to a close on Sunday with every team in action…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[224799,227285,227286,227287,49,48,11002,8217,8224,459,227288,227289,227283,227284,6002,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-600219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-2026-nba-playoffs","9":"tag-2026-nba-playoffs-schedule","10":"tag-2026-nba-postseason-schedule","11":"tag-basketball-playoff-schedule","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-charlotte-hornets","15":"tag-golden-state-warriors","16":"tag-miami-heat","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-nba-playoff-dates","19":"tag-nba-playoff-game-times","20":"tag-nba-playoff-schedule","21":"tag-nba-playoffs-schedule","22":"tag-phoenix-suns","23":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}