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Eastern Conference Losing Magic Numbers

How close is your team from being eliminated from winning a certain playoff spot? A Losing Magic Number is the number of games a team must lose to guarantee losing a given playoff spot. Click a team name to proceed to the team playoff picture page.

Eastern Conference Losing Magic Numbers
Record Rcrd Conference Playoff Spots No
Playoffs
No
POs
Team W L GPi
Games Played
82 game season
1*
First Round Home Field
Advantage
2*
First Round Home Field
Advantage
3*
First Round Home Field
Advantage
4*
First Round Home Field
Advantage
5 6 7**
Play-in
8**
Play-in
9**
Play-in
10**
Play-in
11
Cavaliers 43 10 53 MW MW MW MW MW MW MW MW MW MW MW
Celtics 38 16 54 24 MW MW MW MW MW MW MW MW MW MW
Knicks 34 18 52 22 27 MW MW MW MW MW MW MW MW MW
Pacers 29 22 51 18 23 27 30 31 MW MW MW MW MW MW
Bucks 28 24 52 16 20 25 28 29 30 MW MW MW MW MW
Pistons 27 26 53 13 18 23 26 27 28 MW MW MW MW MW
Hawks 26 28 54 12 17 21 24 25 27 27 28 MW MW MW
Magic 26 29 55 11 16 20 23 24 25 27 MW MW MW MW
Heat 25 26 51 14 19 23 26 28 29 30 31 MW MW MW
Bulls 22 31 53 9 13 18 21 22 23 25 26 27 29 MW
 
Sixers 20 32 52 8 13 17 20 21 22 24 25 26 28 MW
Nets 19 34 53 6 11 15 18 19 20 22 23 24 26 MW
Raptors 16 37 53 3 8 12 15 16 17 19 20 21 23 MW
Hornets 13 38 51 2 7 11 14 15 16 18 19 20 22 MW
Wizards 9 44 53 X 1 5 8 10 11 12 13 14 16 MW
  • Notes
  • ^ means the team will finish better than this spot
  • X means the team cannot win this spot
  • numeric indicates the number of games that must be lost to guarantee losing this spot
  • "MW" indicates the team Might Win the spot despite losing all of its remaining games
  • *  denotes first round home field advantage in the playoffs
  • ** denotes Play-in Tournament Participant