| The entered their seventh consecutive postseason | Jamal Murray will miss a solid chunk of next season, leaving the Nuggets without their second-best player |
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| The became the first team in NBA history to move on to the NBA Finals after missing the postseason in the prior ten seasons | So, who can they get around those two guys to elevate this team? All the standing is collected from Filed Under: |
Indiana Pacers 34-38 Rick Carlisle is returning to Indiana to coach the Pacers, in hopes that his resume and experience will help take this team to the next level.
24| Perhaps it would have been the Nets if they had their big three | The 2021 NBA Play-in Tournament and the 2021 NBA playoffs are postseason tournaments of the National Basketball Association's 2020—21 season |
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| became the first player to reach 15 assists with 0 turnovers three separate times in the NBA playoffs | You need to know that only sixteen league teams can reach the playoff birth from thirty teams of the year |
New Orleans Pelicans 31-41 After firing Stan Van Gundy in June after just one season with the Pelicans, New Orleans hired former Phoenix assistant coach Willie Green to continue its rebuild.