It's playoffs time! The NBA regular season wrapped up yesterday, after nearly six months of competition between all 30 teams. Now, 10 of those teams are eliminated, 12 have a guaranteed playoff spot, and the remaining eight will battle it out in the Play-In Tournament for a chance to make it all the way to the NBA Finals.

The Thunder will face one of the Phoenix Suns, Portland Trail Blazers, LA Clippers or Golden State Warriors in Round 1 of the 2026 NBA playoffs. The Suns-Trail Blazers loser will face the Clippers-Warriors winner on Friday for the eighth seed.

The NBA play-in tournament starts this week and these eight players will have all the pressure of lifting their teams to the NBA playoffs.

There are roughly 15 games remaining in the regular season, and the league’s best teams have ramped up their play to end the season with the NBA’s best record. Oklahoma City, San Antonio, and Detroit are continuing to dominate the rest of the league.

Knueppel is almost constantly in motion and has a near-preternatural sense for where the most advantageous opening is or will be. It's often behind the three-point line. There may not be another player in the league right now who's better at catching on the move, immediately squaring up and then launching a form-perfect jumper.

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