Even if the NBA has been flashy on the courts to mark the matches of the “In-Season Tournament”, it is not necessarily easy to navigate in this tournament whose matches are staggered.
After this new series of meetings, however, we see things more clearly. With their four victories in four matches in this group phase of the tournament, the Lakers are thus qualified for the quarter-finals. Guaranteed to finish as seeded in the West, the “Purple & Gold” will also play this meeting at home.
With their victory against Utah, coupled with Phoenix’s success against Portland, the Jazz and the Blazers are also eliminated, the Salt Lake City players will inevitably finish behind the Suns, against whom they lost in the ” In-Season Tournament”, in this group A of the Western Conference.
In the East, the Pacers also qualified, but they are not certain of receiving in the quarter-final, since they have one game left to play, and the Celtics, the Bucks and the Heat have not not lost since the start of this tournament, and that they can therefore recover the first two seeds in the East.
With their defeat, the Sixers are not necessarily eliminated, but it seems very complicated for Joel Embiid and his team to recover a place as best 2nd with a record of 2 wins for 2 losses.
For the moment, it is the Pacers, the Bucks, the Celtics, the Lakers, the Pelicans and the Kings who are directly qualified for the quarter-finals, which will be played on December 4 and 5. The Heat and the Wolves, best runners-up according to the “tiebreakers” defined by the league, complete this Top 8 for the moment.
As a reminder, the quarter-finals will be played on December 4 and 5, in the venues of the various qualified teams, while the semi-finals and the final will be played on December 7 and 9, in Las Vegas.
With at stake for the players, a bonus of 500,000 dollars for each member of the winning team.
EAST
GROUP A
1- Indiana (3-0)
2- Cleveland (2-1)
3- Philadelphia (2-2)
4- Atlanta (1-2)5- Detroit (0-3)
GROUP B
1- Milwaukee (2-0)
2- Miami (2-0)
3- New York (1-1)
4- Charlotte (1-2)5- Washington (0-3)
GROUP C
1- Boston (2-0)
2-Brooklyn (2-1)
3- Orlando (2-1)
4- Toronto (0-2)
5- Chicago (0-2)
WEST
GROUP A
1- LA Lakers (4-0)
2- Phoenix (2-1)3- Utah (2-2)4-Portland (1-3)5- Memphis (0-3)
GROUP B
1- New Orleans (2-1)
2- Denver (2-1)
3- Houston (1-1)
4- Dallas (1-2)
5- LA Clippers (1-2)
GROUP C
1- Sacramento (2-0)
2- Minnesota (2-0)
3-Golden State (1-1)
4- Oklahoma City (1-2)5- San Antonio (0-3)
