With just over a month left in the NBA’s regular season, the playoff picture in both conferences is starting to fall into place.
While the teams that will be within the 10-team play-in tournament field in each conference are all but solidified with some teams in a full-force tank, plenty can change over the final chunk of the regular season in terms of playoff seeding. In the loaded Western Conference, the third- and sixth-place teams are separated by only 1 1/2 games. The Suns, the first team out of the top six and guaranteed playoff berth that comes with it, are two games back of the sixth-place Lakers.
