1. Chicago trails the Galaxy by three points in the race for the fourth playoff seed and home-field advantage in the first round of the playoffs. 2. He might be starting for the Clips, but the Raptors entered the game as the fourth playoff seed in the Eastern Conference. 3. The win got them within three games of the Western Conference-leading Utah Jazz for the top playoff seed. 4. They fell a game and a half behind the Utah Jazz in the race for the eighth and final playoff seed in the West. 5. Those were big breakthroughs as the Nuggets battle Sacramento for the eighth playoff seed in the West. 6. Cleveland pulled within one game of the Knicks for the fourth playoff seed in the Eastern Conference. 7. Cleveland dropped a full game behind New York in a four-way race that includes Atlanta and Detroit for the fourth playoff seed in the East. 8. If the season ended now, Phoenix would be the seventh playoff seed in the Western Conference. 9. The Rockets lost their sixth straight and fell two games behind the Lakers in the race for the fourth playoff seed in the West. 10. The Spurs are the top playoff seed in the Western Conference and will have home court advantage throughout. |