LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Tiebreakers won’t factor into who qualifies for the Western Conference play-in series.
The four remaining teams in the race for those two spots will all play a different total of games in this coronavirus-interrupted season, meaning none of those clubs can finish with identical records.So, winning percentages will decide everything.And the margins there could be razor close — just about the slimmest possible.A season like none other in NBA history may get a finish like none other, at least in the West.
An analysis by The Associated Press shows there are two scenarios where the final difference between teams in the play-in race could be less than 0.001% — yes, less than one thousandth of a percent.