Basketball players from Orlando and Phoenix are the last participants in the NBA playoffs.
Orlando won eighth place in the Eastern Conference after a 121-90 victory against the Charlotte Hornets, while the Suns won the playoffs in the West by defeating the Golden State Warriors 111-96.
Paolo Banchero he scored 25 points and led the way five players with a double-digit number win for the home team Orlando Magicit says HRT.hr.
Orlando, the eighth team in the East, will play the first-placed Detroit Pistons in the first round of the playoffs. The series begins Sunday night in Detroit.
For Magic, this is it third consecutive ranking to the playoffs.
LaMelo Ball scored 23 points for the Hornets, who finished ninth in the East.
They’re in Phoenix Suns place in the playoffs ensured by victory over Golden State Warriorsand Jalen Green, who finished the game with 36 points, was the most responsible for that.
The Suns thus won the eighth place in the Western Conference, and on Sunday they will play against the Oklahoma City Thunder, the defending champion and the first seed in the West, in the opening of the playoffs.
They were key loose ballsPhoenix scored 30 points off 21 Warriors turnovers.
Golden State’s Brandin Podziemski scored 10 of his team-high 23 points in the second quarter. He also led the Warriors with ten rebounds.
Stephen Curry scored 17 points in the loss, but hit just 4 of 16 shots from the field, including a trio of ten three-point attempts.
Playoff pairings:
Eastern Conference
DETROIT (1) – ORLANDO (8)
BOSTON (2) – PHILADELPHIA (7)
NEW YORK (3) – ATLANTA (6)
CLEVELAND (4) – TORONTO (5)
Western Conference
OKLAHOMA CITY (1) – PHOENIX (8)
SAN ANTONIO (2) – PORTLAND (7)
DENVER (3) – MINNESOTA (6)
LA LAKERS (4) – HOUSTON (5)
THE BRACKET IS SET 🏆
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