The Detroit Pistons' seeding for the 2025 NBA playoffs has been locked in.
The Pistons will enter the postseason as the Eastern Conference's sixth seed, following their 125-119 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks in Friday's regular-season home finale. They will face the East's 3-seed in a best-of-seven series (with a 2-2-1-1-1 format) starting either April 19 or 20, with the first two games on the road before returning to Little Caesars Arena for a pair of games.
As the 6-seed, the Pistons will likely face the New York Knicks, who appeared to have locked up the 3-seed with Indiana's impending loss to Orlando on Friday night. The Pistons took the season series from the Knicks, 3-1, with three consecutive wins, including Thursday's 115-106 victory at LCA.
At 44-37 overall, the Pistons have tied their highest win total since 2007-08 with a game remaining. They conclude the regular season at 1 p.m. Sunday against the Bucks on the road, in a game televised on ESPN and FanDuel Sports Network Detroit.
The 6-seed is the franchise's best since the 2007-08 season, when the Pistons entered the playoffs as the 2-seed in the East and advanced to the Eastern Conference finals. That season also featured the most recent playoff victory for the franchise, in the ECF against Boston. The Pistons lost the final two games of that series and have been swept in three other first-round postseason series (2009 by the Cavs, 2016 by the Cavs again and 2019 by the Bucks) for a playoff losing streak of 14 games, an NBA record.
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