NBA
What to Watch
The games that matter: playoff and play-in places, the #1 seeds, and your teams. Every game here says why it's on the list, and nothing is added just to fill it.
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Best of the rest
Nothing in this window clears the bar for mattering, so these are the next best by the same measure - shown because you asked for at least 3.
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How games are picked
A game makes the list when it moves a team's chances of a top-six seed (straight into the playoffs), a top-ten one (the play-in) or its conference's #1 seed - NovaModel plays out the rest of the season thousands of times with the game going each way and counts how much those chances change, more for a game that could go either way - or when both teams are in the top six, both are unbeaten, or it's a play-in, playoff or NBA Cup knockout game. Follow a team and its own games come first, then every game tied to it: its next three opponents, teams it has already played that are in the top six (their results change what beating or losing to them was worth), a future opponent meeting a past one, teams just ahead of it in the seeding with a real chance to lose, and - once teams have played ten games - conference rivals within a game of it. Following a conference counts its races. Seeds and races here go by record alone, without the NBA's tiebreakers.