We have approximately one month left of regular season basketball left, the play-in tournament is scheduled to begin May 18. My question is which teams do you think will make the playoffs (more specifically the play-in tournament) and which not?

As of right now, the standings look like this: stats source : https://www.espn.com

East:                             West:

7  Heat     28   28   .500        7   Mavericks   30   25   .545                               
8  Hornets  27   28   .491        8   Grizzlies   28   26   .519
9  Pacers   26   29   .473        9   Warriors    28   28   .500
10 Raptors  23   34   .404        10  Spurs       26   28   .481
11 Bulls    22   33   .400        11  Pelicans    25   31   .446
12 Wizards  22   33   .400        12  Kings       22   34   .393
13 Cavs     20   35   .364        13  Thunder     20   36   .357   
14 Magic    18   38   .321        14  T'Wolves    15   42   .263
15 Pistons  17   39   .304        15  Rockets     14   42   .250   

Infographic of the play-in tournament: click image

Looking out West, it seems only Pelicans have a shot at the 10th seed, with their recent nine-game losing streak, the Kings are almost certainly out of the picture.

A lot more interesting in the Eastern conference where at least 4 teams have realistic odds of making the play-in, and if i have to put my money on one team, i would take the Wizards who are on a nice little three-game winning streak, beating a team like the Jazz.

I am calling it now, no matter how great Jokic could be, without Murray they are not going to win anything, they were already not a title contender in my mind, but even if they had a small chance to win it, they will not win it now for sure. That is the same thing I keep saying about Nets, they could lose someone to injury during playoffs and suddenly the team that is seen as the best roster in NBA right now could become a second rate team.

You think Durant-Harden would be enough to win? Lakers have Lebron and AD, Clippers have PG13 and Kawhi, these are all great duos, sure you may see them better or worse but role players make the difference there at that point, look at Bucks, they have two time MVP and they sucked last year. So, that is why I think one major player gone for the season would mean that your chances are gone because parity is much better these days, every team has a chance with their superstars, one of them gone means their chances are gone too.

As new York Kniks keep winning, which they are in 5 win streak now, they are already in the rank number 6 and that is just great to ensure a playoff spot.

https://ph.global.nba.com/standings/

I could not imagine they'll be so good too, but with a new coach, we are now seeing the beauty of success.

Randle has been posting numbers lile that all season.  I usually watch every game and randle has been nothing short of amazing this year.  His baseline jump shot is sick and he has been amazing on the boards and running the team.  Finally enjoyable to watch after years of throwing terrible teams out there.

Steph looking to expand on his league’s best 30 points per game streak tonight against the Boston Celtics on ABC. You might need a reason like this to watch the Warriors nowadays with their injury problems. I’m looking at this game starting my night and the Jake Paul vs Ben Askren fight to end things.

They are no. 9 in the western conference and they still have lots of games left that they could use to take advantage to get some winning streaks to somehow enter the playoff tree. They are getting some good winning streaks this past few days and the next game will be a real challenge for them since they will be competing with one of the best in the league. If they win this game against the Boston Celtics, they will be getting the first 5 winning streaks this season.

I also think that personally, Steph is trying to win the NBA scoring for this year against Beal.

Last three games, 50+, 40+, 30+. I think he will easily can score 30+ against Boston tonight. Last game he went 0-7 in the first half, so he missed a lot of three's. But he quickly bounce back in the second half and GSW win by a large margin. Yes, this could be high scoring and we might see an upset as GSW is underdog as per odds against Boston.

I agree with it not a good season for almost all the players, they got injured and the atmosphere is really different, it might be because players are unable to go out and practice properly, which is needed by their body, instead, they have been limited contact in the offseason, I hope that the virus will end and to be able to make players have a full practice and to do their old routines that I'm sure are removed since the pandemic.

What an incredible performance from Stephen Curry last night! They lost to Celtics by 5 points but Curry did everything he can for his team undoubtedly. He got 47 PTS, 7 REB, 3 AST. But there was another insane performance at Celtics side.    J. Tatum had another marvelous performance - 44 PTS, 10 REB, 3 AST. It was really a great clash.