Friday's slate features every team in action, with several seeding matchups and clinching scenarios to monitor throughout the evening.

The NBA regular season ends this week. Here are current playoff standings and how the play-in tournament works with only a few games left.

If the Celtics can't chase down the Cavaliers, then the top three seeds probably aren't changing. That makes the chase for No. 4 the race most worth monitoring. The Pacers are 1.5 games up on the Pistons for the spot for now, and Detroit has the same cushion on Milwaukee for No. 5, but these Central Division foes appear in line for a photo finish.

Three days remain in the 2024-25 NBA regular season, and there is still plenty of for grabs in terms of playoff seeding -- especially in the league's wild West -- as every team has two games remaining on its regular-season schedule.

Kelly Iko leads a reporter roundtable to discuss who the Rockets could face in the first round and how they might fare.

Who are those teams, what do the current standings look like and which team became the first to clinch its conference? Find out with this playoff preview. The current Eastern Conference Playoff Standings are: Z (clinched conference);

SportsLine's model simulated Detroit Pistons vs. Milwaukee Bucks 10,000 times and revealed its NBA picks for Friday's contest

In an attempt to expand the field of teams eligible for the NBA playoffs, the Play-In Tournament was launched before the 2021 postseason and has injected some competition and excitement to the bottom quarter of the respective brackets in the Eastern and Western conferences.

The rest of the season (and Play-In) could shake things up, but as of now, some intriguing first-round series loom.

The Orlando Magic officially clinched the seventh-best record in the Eastern Conference standings and the top overall seed in the NBA Play-In Tournament with Wednesday's 96-76 win over the Boston Celtics. Orlando will host the No. 8 team in the Eastern Conference standings on Tuesday, April 15. The time and opponent are to be determined.

Get real-time NBA Basketball coverage and scores as Los Angeles Lakers takes on Dallas Mavericks. We bring you the latest game previews, live stats, expert picks and recaps on CBSSports.com

Luka Doncic returned to play in Dallas for the first time since he was traded to the Lakers on Feb. 2. Our NBA insiders answer the biggest questions from a big night in the NBA.

Some people called Wednesday's game between the Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks the most anticipated regular-season game in the NBA this year. It marked Luka Doncic's return to the city he called home for six seasons and change before he was sent to the Lakers in that tectonic trade two months ago.

The Dallas Mavericks are hosting the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday in Luka Doncic's first game back in the American Airlines Center since February's shocking

Luka Doncic made his return to Dallas on Wenesday night as the Mavericks hosted the Los Angeles Lakers for the first time since the trade. It was an emotional night for Doncic who had spent the first six-plus seasons of his NBA career in Dallas.