In the match which Durant and Harden both were absent, Nets were defeated by Trail Blazers 128-109 away. Irving's 28-point effort wasn't enough for a win. Nets already guaranteed the 1/8 finals. But this was a critical win for Trail Blazers as they still have a big chance to qualify for 1/8 finals.

They are good till the 4th quarter, they really look terrible as they can't score points while Sacramento took advantage of it. But this is just the beginning for Lebron, give him a couple of games (might be late though for this regular season), but starting playoffs it might be a different Lakers.

But they are going to contend with the top seeds in the West, so it will be interesting how Lebron will fair himself against those teams, it will be an interesting match.

A must win for the Blazers, Kyrie alone is not enough  the help from Green and Griffin ain't enough to compete with Lilard leads Blazer.

Blazers squad blends well as they really rotate well and shared the ball, Stars and role players take their job accordingly. Great to see them playing as a team you'll see the players inside the court really jiving.

Well covered handicap, sorry lost for those handicappers who follow New Jersey Nets.

Problem of this easiest schedule is that Mavs play good against good tams. They have high % of wins against teams with 50% wining. And they lose against Huston and Sacramento and, ...  So that easiest seclude sort of turn into toughest schedule for Mavs. Lets hope this will not be the case anymore. And loss against weakest teams were just because of lack of motivation.

Pelicans also wanting a spot, they'll be playing against the Wolves today and they could have a good chance of winning here. As of now, Pelicans needs to start winning if they want to have a chance, they are just 3 wins behind the Warriors.

They are not one win away from Grizzlies, here's their respective record.

Grizzlies 32 wins 30 loses.
Pelicans 28 wins 35 loses.

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

This means there chances are low but not impossible. Let's just see what they can do.

As a spurs fan I have to say it was horrible to watch that game. We won the first half with 32 points, that is one of the highest scoring difference in a half as well, and there has never been a team that lead as much and lost their game neither, we are the first one. However I have to say that we sucked on offense, I mean if you fail to score on your opponent and get complacent that means you do not pay attention to where you are or who you are playing.

You can lead a game with 30+ points but this is NBA, even though many fans think some players are bad, it is obvious that even the bench player that got 10 minutes all season is 1000x better than regular person. So you can't just stop defending or stop scoring, if you do this will be the result. This is how we lost, we just thought we are leading by 32 so things are easy and we let go off the gas and they showed us why we can't.

That's why there back is against the wall for now, they have to win every remaining games just to stay in the spot the problem is their next 6 games is against a very tough teams.

vs Raptors
vs Nuggets
vs Clippers
vs Portland
vs Suns
vs Knicks

Ouch!, except for Toronto, the rest are high caliber teams. So imagine what's going on Lebron's mind right now.

It is a difficult games for now in my opinion. Lebron and AD are just trying to get back to their groove. They are not 100% as of this time. And those teams have been playing solid, so yes it will be a difficult task for the Lakers, they might end up losing all of them if they didn't have the breaks at this regular season. They will be lucky on winning half of those games.

Damn, it will be a rough road for them.
All of these teams do want to win their last remaining games and take the 1st and 2nd seed.
For obvious reasons, they want to battle an exhausted 7th and 8th seed that just finished a hardcore game in the play-in tournament.
A good tactic to advance in the 1st round of the playoffs with less effort. Lebron and the Lakers team will need to perform at their highest level to defeat them.