The Nets can avoid the sudden-death NBA Play-In Tournament and sneak into the Top 6 in the Eastern Conference.
It won’t be easy, but it’s not impossible. It’ll take extreme intentionality and a little bit of luck for these Nets to be guaranteed safe passage into the postseason.
Here’s a short explainer on the play-in tournament, as a referesher: The No. 7 and No. 8 seeds play to determines the seventh seed. The loser of that game plays the winner of the matchup between the No. 9 and No. 10 seeds to determine the eighth seed. The losers are eliminated from the playoff picture altogether.
