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West’s 8th Seed to be Decided on Season’s Last Day
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All posts by Basketball InsidersUpdated4 hours ago on April 30, 2024
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It’ll take all 82 games to decide which team gets the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference, as both the Oklahoma City Thunder and New Orleans Pelicans won on Monday night to keep their postseason hopes alive.
Due to that head-to-head tiebreaker, if the Pelicans and Thunder finish with the same record, New Orleans will head to the postseason for the first time since 2011. The Thunder must finish one game ahead of the Pelicans to make the playoffs for the sixth straight year; they need to beat Minnesota, and they need San Antonio to beat New Orleans.
