Can you feel it, folks? The winter ice is thawing, veteran players are resting and bad teams are tanking left and right.
It must be the stretch run of the 2016-17 NBA season.
There's still plenty to be decided between now and mid-April. The No. 8 seeds in both conferences are up for grabs, as are seedings among the the teams nestled more comfortably in each playoff picture. The race to the bottom could be just as riveting, with calamitous clubs jockeying for the right to draft the likes of Washington's Markelle Fultz, UCLA's Lonzo Ball and Kansas' Josh Jackson, among others.