2017 NBA playoffs
| 2017 NBA Playoffs | |||||
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| Season | 2016–17 | ||||
| Teams | 16 | ||||
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The 2017 NBA Playoffs is the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 2016–17 season, which began in October 2016. The playoffs will begin on April 15, 2017. It will end with the 2017 NBA Finals.
Within each conference, the eight teams with the most wins qualify for the playoffs. The seedings are based on each team's record.
Each conference's bracket is fixed; there is no reseeding. All rounds are best-of-seven series; the team that has four wins advances to the next round. As stated above, all rounds, including the NBA Finals, are in a 2–2–1–1–1 format. Home court advantage in any round does not necessarily belong to the higher-seeded team, but instead to the team with the better regular season record. If two teams with the same record meet in a round, standard tiebreaker rules are used. The rule for determining home court advantage in the NBA Finals is winning percentage, then head to head record, followed by record vs. opposite conference.
On February 25, 2017, The Golden State Warriors became the first team to clinch a playoff spot, and the earliest in NBA history, besting their own record last year by two days earlier. The Cleveland Cavaliers became the first Eastern Conference team to clinch a playoff spot on March 19, 2017.
Teams in bold advanced to the next round. The numbers to the left of each team indicate the team's seeding in its conference, and the numbers to the right indicate the number of games the team won in that round. The division champions are marked by an asterisk. Teams with home court advantage are shown in Italics.
* Division winner
Bold Series winner
Italic Team with home-court advantage
This is the first meeting in the playoffs between the Raptors and Bucks.
This is the sixth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Wizards (formerly known as the Bullets) winning three out of the first five meetings.
This is the second playoff meeting between these two teams, with Golden State winning the most recent meeting in 2016.
This is the fifth playoff meeting between these two teams, with San Antonio winning the most recent meeting in 2016.
This is the eighth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Thunder/SuperSonics franchise winning six of the first seven meetings.
This is the third playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Jazz winning the previous two meeting.
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