re: Western Conference Remaining Schedules and Scenarios Updated through 4/12

Kings winning tonight makes everything easier for us.

If Kings win and Pels win, then we are the 6th seed.
If Kings win and Pels lose, then the Lakers are very likely to concede to 10th place. A Warriors win over us means the Lakers can't pass them, and a Kings win means the only way for the Lakers to pass them is for the Kings to lose to the Blazers in the last game, and the Lakers beat us on the road, just for the slim chance they might get to play the 9/10 game at home. I doubt they give a shite so they'll likely rest everyone.


Go Kings!

Now if Suns win and Pels lose, that won't be fun. Queens would fall to 10th and Lakers would need a win over us to keep the 9 seed and play at home against the Kings

If Suns win and Pels win, It's also not fun b/c then the Lakers would need to beat us to remain the 8 seed, which would mean they would just stay in Nola and play us again. I don't like that scenario at all, although that does assume the Suns beat the Wolves to keep us at 7. The only saving grace there might be are the Wolves are playing to win, unless of course the Bucks beat the Thunder tonight, and assuming the Wolves beat the Hawks, then the standings are pretty much set at 1, 2, 3 with the Wolves very unlikely to get the 1 seed with Denver playing Memphis in their last game.

Go Kings!

I assume in all scenarios the Lakers beat the Grizzlies tonight. The Grizz are literally fielding a G-League team at best right now.