The 2025-26 NBA regular season reached an exciting conclusion, with playoff and play-in tournament positioning coming down to the final Sunday, and now the playoffs are here.<\/p>\n
The Detroit Pistons<\/a> closed with the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference, while the Boston Celtics<\/a> had an impressive regular season \u2014 most of which was played without Jayson Tatum<\/a> as he recovered from an Achilles injury suffered in last year\u2019s postseason \u2014 and finished with the second seed in the East.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> are the top seed in the West for the second straight season, finishing two games ahead of Victor Wembanyama<\/a>\u2019s hard-charging San Antonio Spurs<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> and Orlando Magic<\/a> made it to the postseason out of the East play-in tournament, while the Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> and Phoenix Suns<\/a> made it out of the West\u2019s play-in tournament.<\/p>\n Here are the current odds for every NBA playoff series.<\/p>\n Odds courtesy of BetMGM<\/a>. <\/p>\n Eastern Conference<\/p>\n No. 1 Detroit Pistons (-200) vs. No. 8 Orlando Magic (+165)<\/p>\n Magic up 1-0<\/p>\n No. 2 Boston Celtics (-600) vs. No. 7 Philadelphia 76ers (+425)<\/p>\n Series tied 1-1<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n No. 3 New York Knicks<\/a> (-185) vs. No. 6 Atlanta Hawks<\/a> (+155)<\/p>\n Series tied 1-1<\/p>\n No. 4 Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> (-2000) vs. No. 5 Toronto Raptors<\/a> (10-1)<\/p>\n Cavs up 2-0<\/p>\n Western Conference<\/p>\n No. 1 Oklahoma City Thunder (-10000) vs. No. 8 Phoenix Suns (30-1)<\/p>\n Oklahoma City Thunder up 1-0<\/p>\n No. 2 San Antonio Spurs (-550) vs. No. 7 Portland Trail Blazers (+400)<\/p>\n Series tied 1-1<\/p>\n No. 3 Denver Nuggets<\/a> (-250) vs. No. 6 Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> (+200)<\/p>\n Series tied 1-1<\/p>\n No. 4 Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> (-150) vs. No. 5 Houston Rockets<\/a> (+125)<\/p>\n Los Angeles Lakers up 2-0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025-26 NBA regular season reached an exciting conclusion, with playoff and play-in tournament positioning coming down to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[208,7,75,193,187,188,1409,194,77,150,152,6,2045,11,191,179,76,207,472,471,474,476,693],"class_list":{"0":"post-716342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-playoffs","8":"tag-atlanta-hawks","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-boston-celtics","11":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","12":"tag-denver-nuggets","13":"tag-detroit-pistons","14":"tag-eastern-conference","15":"tag-houston-rockets","16":"tag-jayson-tatum","17":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","18":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-nba-playoff-series","21":"tag-nba-playoffs","22":"tag-new-york-knicks","23":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","24":"tag-orlando-magic","25":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","26":"tag-phoenix-suns","27":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","28":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","29":"tag-toronto-raptors","30":"tag-victor-wembanyama"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116451771983382869","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716342","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=716342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}