The Play-In Tournament works as double elimination for the No. 7 and No. 8 seeds for each conference, and single elimination for the No. 9 and No. 10 seeds. Both of tonight’s games feature teams in the latter category.
Thus, it’s win or go home for the Heat, Bulls, Mavericks and Kings tonight. The winner of Heat-Bulls will play the Hawks, who lost to the Magic in last night’s Play-In game, for the No. 8 seed in the East. The winner of Mavericks-Kings will head to Memphis to play the Grizzlies, who lost to the Warriors last night, for the No. 8 seed in the West.
The loser of each game tonight will be eliminated and their season will be over.
