2025 NBA Playoff Projections
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The NBA Play-In Tournament was implemented for the 2021 playoffs and allows each conference to expand its potential playoff field from eight teams to 10 .
The seventh- through 10th -ranked teams in each conference at the end of the regular season compete in a three-day tournament to decide the No. 7 and No. 8 seeds in the first round of the playoffs.
This year , the play-in tournament begins April 15 and concludes April 18 .
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