The Western Conference seems the tightest it has been this season, with the No. 3 and No. 8 seeds separated by just 2.5 games; that’s as of Sunday night, with the San Antonio Spurs’ win over the Cleveland Cavaliers. This brought them to 36-25 and still in third place.
The margin for error remains small for San Antonio, who still has 21 games to secure a playoff spot that’s no longer guaranteed. With a brutal schedule the rest of the way, it will take health and some of the team’s best performances this season to get that seed in mid-April.