{"id":7345,"date":"2026-04-07T09:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/nba-playoff-bracket-mondays-games-where-teams-stand-if-postseason-started-today-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T09:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:30:17","slug":"nba-playoff-bracket-mondays-games-where-teams-stand-if-postseason-started-today-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/nba-playoff-bracket-mondays-games-where-teams-stand-if-postseason-started-today-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA playoff bracket: Monday&#039;s games, where teams stand if postseason started today &#8211; USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the final week of the <a href=https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/nba\/ target=_blank rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NBA<\/a> regular season, meaning it\u2019s crunch time for teams battling for playoff positioning. And there are big battles across both conferences, with just a handful of games left before the postseason begins with the NBA Play-In Tournament on April 14.<br \/>Only one thing is certain at this point: the <a href=https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/detroit-pistons\/8\/ target=_blank rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Detroit Pistons<\/a> have locked up the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference. But there are a few games on the Monday, April 6 slate that could play a key role in determining who lands where on the playoff bracket.<br \/>The night began with a crucial matchup in Atlanta, pitting the <a href=https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/new-york-knicks\/18\/ target=_blank rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York Knicks<\/a>, the current No. 3 seed in the East, against the red-hot <a href=https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/atlanta-hawks\/1\/ target=_blank rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hawks<\/a>, who currently hold the No. 5 seed. The <a href=https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/san-antonio-spurs\/24\/ target=_blank rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a>, who still have a chance to catch the <a href=https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/oklahoma-city-thunder\/25\/ target=_blank rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> for the top seed in the West, hosted the <a href=https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/philadelphia-76ers\/20\/ target=_blank rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a>, who are trying to hang on to the sixth seed in the East. The night concluded with a Northest division matchup between the <a href=https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/denver-nuggets\/7\/ target=_blank rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Denver Nuggets<\/a>, seeking to move into a top-three seed, and the <a href=https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/portland-trail-blazers\/22\/ target=_blank rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Portland Trail Blazers<\/a>, who sit in the No. 9 seed.<br \/>Here are the current brackets for the playoffs and the Play-In Tournament, the NBA standings and the results for games of Monday, April 6:<br \/><em>All time Eastern<\/em><br \/>All 20 teams \u2013 10 in each conference \u2013 that will participate in the postseason have been determined.\u00a0Here are their records through games on Monday, April 6, and what each of those teams has clinched so far (<strong>x-<\/strong>clinched playoff berth;\u00a0<strong>d-<\/strong>clinched division;\u00a0<strong>y-<\/strong>clinched conference):<br \/><em>(Through games on Monday, April 6)<\/em><br \/><em>(Through games on Monday, April 6)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMirwFBVV95cUxOUTNnYW9lQWxWQ0hTREhZN2NZUVFENzNXY3A1MkVGM2dIY1dLblgyRHlKeExvV0RUOTBFZVQ0elk2THhMQVJuMXNPTEFTN0VZc3FRM3JhenNmcnI0WDVRcVJQZ2M2Z2xtMnd2UVYtSjRsRVlhX0lUZl9KRGZjbWNiUjdhNDVYclBNbDdMdmY3bWlDcTAybGc2Z000Z2JDLUdxZ2t3c1dkakFfQXlKdUdB?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the final week of the NBA regular season, meaning it\u2019s crunch time for teams battling for playoff positioning. And there are big battles across both conferences, with just a handful of games left before the postseason begins with the NBA Play-In Tournament on April 14.Only one thing is certain at this point: the Detroit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}