Get familiarized with the play-in rules, folks because with a 102-97 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers at the Moda Center on Friday, the Los Angeles Lakers will likely be participating in it this season. Here’s why:
- The Lakers are the No. 7 seed in the Western Conference, which puts them in position for a play-in game with the No. 10 seed.
- The Trail Blazers now own the tiebreaker with the Lakers, meaning that if they both end the regular season with same records, Portland would go into the playoffs as the higher seed.