Looks like Sunday's Nets-Sixers game wasn't just a season finale, but also a playoff preview.
When the NBA standings were finalized on Sunday night, after Philly's 134-105 win over Brooklyn, the Nets had clinched the sixth seed at 45-37, and the Sixers had clinched the three at 54-28. And so, the two will meet in the first round of the NBA Playoffs, with Game 1 in Philly Saturday at 1 p.m. on ESPN.
The Sixers swept the season series from the Nets this year, taking all four games by scores of 115-106, 137-133, 101-98, and then 134-105 in a Sunday finale where both teams were locked into their seed.
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The winner of the series will face the winner of the first-round series between Boston and the winner of the Miami-Atlanta play-in game. The other two first-round series are (4) Cleveland vs. (5) New York, and (1) Milwaukee against the remaining play-in survivor; Chicago will face Toronto in the other play-in game, and the winner of that game faces the Heat-Hawks loser for the eighth seed.
Unfortunately, from an entertainment perspective, former Sixer Ben Simmons will not be playing in the series. The Nets announced in March that Simmons was out for the season with a nerve issue in his back.
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