Tonight's going to be a really crazy night of scoreboard watching. One win-and-in game between Denver and Minnesota, but even beyond that only five of sixteen spots are nailed down (first/second in both conferences, plus Indiana in 5th). In the west, everyone is still presumably motivated to win simply to avoid Houston and GSW (although GSW does not look invulnerable). In the east, The bottom three would all probably prefer 7th to get a banged-up Boston team, and would probably prefer to avoid Cleveland, except that Cleveland could still finish either 3rd or 4th. In total, eight of the 15 games have seeding relevance.
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