Welcome to the regular-season finale, where 13 playoff seeds are still in the air, and the only first-round series we know for sure is the fourth-seeded Los Angeles Clippers vs. the fifth-seeded Dallas Mavericks.
Most notably, the final guaranteed playoff berths in both conferences remain unsettled. Win, and the New Orleans Pelicans are in as the Western Conference's No. 6 seed, facing any of three teams. Lose, and it's chaos. In the East, the fifth and sixth seeds are open to four different teams under any number of scenarios. The booby prizes are berths in the double-elimination bracket of the play-in tournament.