NBA regular‑season finale today

All 30 National Basketball Association teams play Sunday, and the results will finish the 2026 playoff bracket. (nba.com) Seven games tip at 3 p.m. Eastern and eight more at 5:30 p.m. Eastern on April 12, the league’s final regular-season day. The SoFi Play-In Tournament starts April 14, and the first round starts April 18. (espn.com) (nba.com) The National Basketball Association said 10 seeds could still change entering Sunday. In the Western Conference, the No. 3 and No. 4 seeds and the No. 8 and No. 9 play-in spots are unsettled; in the Eastern Conference, seeds No. 5 through No. 10 are still in play. (nba.com) No first-round series was set entering the day, according to Yahoo Sports. Detroit, the East’s No. 1 seed, could still draw Toronto, Orlando, Philadelphia, Charlotte or Miami through the play-in path. (sports.yahoo.com) The clearest race is for the East’s last guaranteed playoff berth, which avoids the play-in tournament. Toronto gets the No. 6 seed with a win or with losses by both Orlando and Philadelphia; Orlando gets it with a win and a Toronto loss; Philadelphia gets it with a win plus losses by Toronto and Orlando. (nba.com) Atlanta already owns one of the East’s two remaining guaranteed playoff spots and will finish either fifth or sixth. Charlotte and Miami are locked into the 9-10 play-in game, but home court for that matchup was still undecided entering Sunday. (sports.yahoo.com) In the West, Oklahoma City is locked into No. 1, San Antonio into No. 2, Houston into No. 5, Minnesota into No. 6, Phoenix into No. 7 and Golden State into No. 10. Denver and the Los Angeles Lakers are competing for No. 3 and No. 4, while Portland and the Los Angeles Clippers are competing for No. 8 and No. 9. (nba.com) (sports.yahoo.com) Sunday’s schedule is built to keep teams on the same clock. The East’s relevant games — Orlando at Boston, Milwaukee at Philadelphia, Brooklyn at Toronto, Atlanta at Miami and Charlotte at New York — all start at 3 p.m. Eastern, while the West’s swing games — Denver at San Antonio, Utah at the Lakers, Golden State at the Clippers and Sacramento at Portland — all start at 5:30 p.m. Eastern. (espn.com) The teams already guaranteed playoff spots are Oklahoma City, San Antonio, the Lakers, Denver, Houston and Minnesota in the West, and Detroit, Boston, New York, Cleveland and Atlanta in the East. The teams already eliminated are Dallas, Memphis, New Orleans, Sacramento and Utah in the West, and Brooklyn, Chicago, Indiana, Milwaukee and Washington in the East. (nba.com) By Sunday night, the regular season will be over, the play-in field will be fixed and the bracket will finally have matchups instead of placeholders. (nba.com)