Will only be listening H2H tiebreakers that are relevant (i.e. not going to list a team owning the tiebreaker vs. teams that are mathematically eliminated from winning their group).

For 3-way or greater ties, it goes to point differential. That gets a little too messy to determine as is, so we’ll wait till it’s closer to determine who may come out ahead in 3 (or greater) team tiebreakers.

The Eastern Conference breakdown can be found at: https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/17y1ua7/inseason_tournament_breakdown_eastern_conference/

West A:

Lakers:  3-0 (own H2H tiebreaker vs. Suns)

Jazz: 2-1 (lose H2H tiebreaker vs. Suns)

Suns: 1-1 (own H2H tiebreaker vs. Jazz, lose H2H tiebreaker vs. Lakers)

Trailblazers: 1-2

Grizzlies: 0-3

Lakers clinch with a win at home vs. Jazz on 11/21.

Jazz clinch with a win @ Lakers on 11/21 AND at least 1 Suns’ loss.

Suns clinch with winning their last 2 AND Lakers losing at home vs. Jazz on 11/21.

Trailblazers are mathematically eliminated from winning their group.

Grizzlies are mathematically eliminated from winning their group.

  • duplicatesnowflakeBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Suns clinch seems wrong. Wouldn’t it go to point differential on a 3 way tie?

    • MiopTopBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Correct. All 3 teams would be at 3-1, and 1-1 against eachother. So it would be point differential, and LA has a big lead there so they’d have to lose to Utah by a lot or Phoenix would have to run up the score against Portland and Memphis.