With two games left, a weekend back-to-back, the Nets situation is simple. If they want both games, they’re the second seed. That’s it. It doesn’t matter what the Bucks do. (Sure, the 76ers haven’t clinched the first seed but they play the Magic twice in Orlando this weekend So the chances of them losing both while the Nets win both their games is, well, unlikely.)
If they win out, Brooklyn will play the seventh seed coming out of the play-in tournament. That’s a complicated affair that SB Nation’s Ricky O’Donnell explained for us, but it would be one of four teams: the Celtics, Hornets, Pacers or Wizards.