Detroit clinched the No. 1 seed in the East with its win over Philadelphia. <\/p>\n
The Pistons now don’t have to worry about any late surge from Boston in the final few games of the regular season.<\/p>\n
The Sixers fell into the play-in positions with the loss to the Pistons. They are a half-game back of Toronto. The Raptors have an extra game in hand. <\/p>\n
Toronto plays Boston, Miami twice, New York and Brooklyn to close out, while the Sixers finish with San Antonio, Houston, Indiana and Milwaukee.<\/p>\n
The Raptors have the better remaining schedule. They need to be one game better than the Sixers down the stretch. <\/p>\n
It may be difficult for the Raptors to catch Atlanta given the form the Hawks have been in of late. <\/p>\n
Charlotte, Orlando and Miami will be locked in a fight for the No. 8 seed until the end of the regular season.<\/p>\n
Orlando has an extra game to play and you could make the case that the Magic could go 5-0 in those contests to finish ahead of the Hornets and Heat. <\/p>\n
No. 10 Miami vs. No. 9 Charlotte<\/p>\n
No. 8 Orlando vs. No. 7 Philadelphia<\/p>\n
Play-In Winner vs. No. 1 Detroit<\/p>\n
Play-In Winner vs. No. 2 Boston<\/p>\n
No. 6 Toronto vs. No. 3 New York <\/p>\n
No. 5 Atlanta vs. No. 4 Cleveland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detroit clinched the No. 1 seed in the East with its win over Philadelphia. The Pistons now don’t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,7,6,678,207,3817],"class_list":{"0":"post-699221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-76ers","8":"tag-76ers","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","13":"tag-philadelphia76ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116350774437382109","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}