Every team is done with their 82 games, and the playoff bracket is now set. The Oklahoma City Thunder (49-33), the 6-seed in the Western Conference, will kick things off against the 3-seed Portland Trail Blazers (53-29).
Here’s a look at the playoff bracket:
Yes, you looked at it correctly — a hypothetical Thunder run to the Conference Finals would not include either Golden State or Houston.
It took a lot of help for the Thunder to end up in perhaps the most ideal playoff positioning — along with an OKC win over the Bucks, the Nuggets came back from double-digits to beat the Timberwolves, and the Blazers themselves clearly tried to tank and failed, beating the Kings 136-131 while playing five guys more than 40 minutes each — oh, and they were trailing by 25 at halftime.