2025 NBA playoff picture: Final standings, bracket, first-round matchups

2025 NBA playoff picture: Final standings, bracket, first-round matchups

The NBA regular season, after nearly six full months, is a wrap.

The final weekend of the 2024-25 campaign culminated Sunday with all 30 teams playing across 15 games, providing the first official look at the playoff field. The missing pieces of the bracket will be determined later this week, when the winners in the Play-In Tournament will become the Nos. 7 and 8 seeds in each conference.

Seeding in the East was mostly ironed out headed into the final day of the season, but it was a far different story out West. Entering Sunday, just one game separated seeds 4 through 7 — which meant the Denver Nuggets, Los Angeles Clippers, Golden State Warriors and Minnesota Timberwolves all were fighting to avoid the Play-In.

Making this wild day in the West even spicier, two of those teams — the Warriors and Clippers — played each other.

Here are the final NBA standings of the 2024-25 NBA season and the current structure of the playoff bracket:

Latest NBA playoff standings

The top six teams in each conference automatically make the playoffs. Teams in positions 7-10 qualify for the Play-In Tournament.

Eastern Conference

SeedTeamRecordGames back
1.Cleveland Cavaliers - c64-18--
2.Boston Celtics - x61-213
3.New York Knicks  - x51-3113
4.Indiana Pacers - x50-3214
5.Milwaukee Bucks - x48-3416
6.Detroit Pistons - x44-3820
7.Orlando Magic - pi41-4123
8.Atlanta Hawks - ...
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