There are plenty of great matchups to keep an eye on in round one of the playoffs.ĭefending champions the Los Angeles Lakers - who beat the Golden State Warriors to secure the 7th seed in the West - will face a tough challenge against the No.2 seed Phoenix Suns, who won the regular season battle by two games to one.īut with four-time champion LeBron James leading the charge, Lakers fans will rightly feel they have every chance to beat the Suns and progress to the next round. The NBA Finals begin on 8 July, with the latest possible end date of 22 July, just prior to the start of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in 2021 which will also feature many of the top players from the NBA and WNBA.
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The full dates and match-ups of the second round, as well as conference semi-finals and Finals will be announced as the playoffs progress. The 76ers-Wizards series, Jazz-Grizzlies series, Suns-Lakers series, and Knicks-Hawks series all start on Sunday. The playoffs officially start on Saturday 22 May, beginning with game one of the Nets-Celtics, Bucks-Heat, Mavericks-Clippers, and Trail Blazers-Nuggets series. The loser of this game then faced the winner of the match-up between the ninth and tenth teams - the winner of that game then clinched the eighth and final spot in the playoffs - thus finalising the 2021 NBA playoff bracket. The teams that finished seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth qualified for the play-in tournament, with teams positioned seventh and eighth playing one game, with the winner securing the seventh seed in the playoffs. For the first time in league history, the 2021 NBA playoff field was finalised following a play-in tournament to determine the seventh and eighth seeds in the Eastern and Western conferences.Īt the end of the regular season, the top six teams in each conference clinched a playoff berth.
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