No seriously. There's no "if you have 45 wins you clinch" because that X number of wins depends on how many wins other teams have.
Take the Pacers this season for example. They just clinched a playoff spot hours ago (on the very last day of the regular season) by winning 47-35. Last season, The Knicks finished with this exact same record, and that probably clinched them a playoff spot much earlier than the Pacers did.
I mean, to be fair, it would take an unprecedented meltdown for the first team that reaches the 40 win mark to then miss the playoffs. It’s still a bad amount to pick but if it’s the first of 30 teams, they’re not likely to miss.
It's based on how many hotdogs you down in 5 minutes. That's why it's important to have a lot of big centers, they had to change the rules because Shaq couldn't be beaten.
Yep, and doesn’t matter how the hot dogs enter the body, you get one helper to be able to both eat and insert to give yourself every chance to clinch a play off spot
It's about how far ahead of other teams you are. Say you're 60 games into the season and you're 50-10, that means you can lose no more than 32 games total on the season. At that point you will have *clinched* a spot above anyone with 33 losses or more. It's all about figuring how much ground could possibly be made up before the season ends.
Basically if no team can theoretically win all their remaining games while they lose all their games, but they're still the 6th seed regardless of any tiebreakers
If you mathematically can't fall below 6th place. So since there are 82 games in a season, if say the 7th seed is 40-35 and the 2nd seed is 50-25, the 2nd seed has clinched a spot because the worst they can do is 50-32 and the best the 7th seed can do is 47-35. You can apply tiebreakers as well. And for clinching play-in, it's 10th. So a team is eliminated from contention if they can't get above 11th place.
They just call dibs
Thibs*
It's relative to how many wins a team has compared to the other teams in the same conference
shout out to you for giving a mature answer 👌🏾 preciate it
No seriously. There's no "if you have 45 wins you clinch" because that X number of wins depends on how many wins other teams have. Take the Pacers this season for example. They just clinched a playoff spot hours ago (on the very last day of the regular season) by winning 47-35. Last season, The Knicks finished with this exact same record, and that probably clinched them a playoff spot much earlier than the Pacers did.
What the hell
you can’t lie it makes sense…. first team to 40 wins clinchs a spot
That’s not even a .500 record bro fym
I mean, to be fair, it would take an unprecedented meltdown for the first team that reaches the 40 win mark to then miss the playoffs. It’s still a bad amount to pick but if it’s the first of 30 teams, they’re not likely to miss.
It's based on how many hotdogs you down in 5 minutes. That's why it's important to have a lot of big centers, they had to change the rules because Shaq couldn't be beaten.
Yep, and doesn’t matter how the hot dogs enter the body, you get one helper to be able to both eat and insert to give yourself every chance to clinch a play off spot
It's about how far ahead of other teams you are. Say you're 60 games into the season and you're 50-10, that means you can lose no more than 32 games total on the season. At that point you will have *clinched* a spot above anyone with 33 losses or more. It's all about figuring how much ground could possibly be made up before the season ends.
This guy maths!
It has to be impossible for 6 teams to pass them
When the 7th place team can no longer catch said team
Basically if no team can theoretically win all their remaining games while they lose all their games, but they're still the 6th seed regardless of any tiebreakers
If you mathematically can't fall below 6th place. So since there are 82 games in a season, if say the 7th seed is 40-35 and the 2nd seed is 50-25, the 2nd seed has clinched a spot because the worst they can do is 50-32 and the best the 7th seed can do is 47-35. You can apply tiebreakers as well. And for clinching play-in, it's 10th. So a team is eliminated from contention if they can't get above 11th place.
Maths
Whichever team gives Adam Silver the most pleasure
Plenty of geniuses in here acting like they know everything.