#2021 NBA WESTERN CONFERENCE STANDINGS SERIES#
The Los Angeles Clippers meet the Dallas Mavericks meet in a repeat of the first-round series of the 2020 playoffs to round out the Western Conference bracket. Seeded third this year and led by MVP-favourite Nikola Jokic, they face an interesting battle with the Portland Trail Blazers, led by Damian Lillard. The Denver Nuggets were the surprise package of the 2020 playoffs, making it all the way to the Western Conference Finals (where they would lose in five games to the eventual champion Lakers). They'll first have to get past the Memphis Grizzlies (who took out the Warriors in the final play-in game to claim the 8th seed), but let's just say it will be a pretty big shock if the Jazz fail to take care of business in seven games (or less). They enter these playoffs with the best record in the entire NBA (52-20), with French star Rudy Gobert telling us he's confident the team have banished their demons of yesteryear and will make a deeper postseason run in 2021. The Utah Jazz suffered a disappointing first-round exit in the recent 2020 playoffs, losing to the Denver Nuggets after squandering a 3-1 series lead.
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.
#2021 NBA WESTERN CONFERENCE STANDINGS FULL#
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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