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| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Sport | Basketball |
| Established | 2020 (current format) |
| Format | Page playoff system |
| Teams | 8 total; 4 per conference |
| Broadcast | |
The NBA play-in tournament is the preliminary National Basketball Association (NBA) postseason tournament. It determines the final two playoff seeds in the Eastern Conference and Western Conference and is played immediately prior to the NBA Playoffs, which is the main tournament of the postseason and regarded by the league as separate from the play-in tournament. Teams finishing the regular season in positions 7 through 10 in the standings for each conference compete to determine the number 7 and 8 seeds in each conference's bracket tournament.