The top eight teams from each Conference are involved in a best-of-seven elimination format that carries on through four rounds until two teams are left to challenge for the Championship. Those rounds are the first round, the NBA Conference semi-finals, the NBA Conference finals, and the NBA finals.

Both conferences conduct the playoffs in the traditional bracket format. All rounds are best-of-seven series. Series are played in the 2–2–1–1–1 format, meaning the team with home-court advantage hosts games 1, 2, 5, and 7, while their opponent hosts games 3, 4, and 6, with games 5, 6 and 7 being played if needed.

To qualify for the playoffs, the clubs in each conference with the ninth and tenth-highest number of points will need to win two straight games.

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• Autographed Julius Erving Basketball.
• Autographed Klay Thompson Jersey.
• Autographed Larry Bird Jersey.
• Autographed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Jersey.
• Autographed RJ Barrett Jersey.
• Autographed Gordon Hayward Jersey.
• Vince Carter Limited Edition Poster.
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In 2022, the NBA announced it would adopt the Play-In Tournament on a full-time basis. The Play-In Tournament serves to increase the number of teams that remain in the playoff hunt throughout the regular season. Four teams square off to claim the final two spots in the traditional playoffs.

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The objective of the Promotion is to accumulate the most points by correctly selecting the "winning team" for each of the fifteen (15) basketball Series in connection with the Playoffs by completing each of the four (4) Round's brackets ("Brackets").

Basketball Playoff Bracket Pool Rules

1. Members try to pick the winner of each NBA Playoff series.
2. For each series, they also pick how many games they think the series will go (4, 5, 6 or 7 games)
3. Points are awarded for each winning pick, with bonus points for how close they come to the correct series length.

The Denver Nuggets are the defending champions and the favorites to repeat, with odds of +470 at FanDuel Sportsbook. The Boston Celtics are second at +500, followed by the Milwaukee Bucks (+550) and the Phoenix Suns (+650).

In 1985, to ease the amount of cross-country travel, it was changed to a 2–3–2 format, in which the first two and last two games of the series were played at the arena of the team who earned home-court advantage by having the better record during the regular season.

If no entrant submits a perfect bracket, the Grand Prize will not be awarded. The Grand Prize is a one (1) lump sum payment of one million U.S. dollars ($1,000,000USD). The person who finishes in first place will be rewarded with courtside seats for two people to one regular-season 2021-22 NBA game.

Each NBA team gets one selection in the first round and one selection in the second round. The 2023 Draft order for the remainder of the first-round will be determined at the end of the regular season.