NBA Playoff Race Update: The Raptors and Celtics Officially Punch Their Tickets

Eastern Conference - Sure Things

(1) Toronto Raptors (47-17, clinched)
(2) Boston Celtics (46-20, clinched)
(3) Cleveland Cavaliers (38-26, 100.0%)
(4) Washington Wizards (37-28, 99.8%)
(5) Indiana Pacers (37-28, 99.6%)
(6) Philadelphia 76ers (35-29, 99.7%)

Both the Raptors and Celtics clinched playoff berths this week, becoming the first two teams to do so this season, respectively.

Despite all the ups and downs for the Cavaliers, they haven't budged from third place in the Eastern Conference, and we give them a no-doubt 100.0% chance of making the postseason. They could certainly slide down the bracket, with only four-and-a-half games separating them from the eighth-place Bucks, but it would take a collapse of epic proportions for the ninth-place Pistons to make up nine-and-a-half games on them.

The Wizards, Pacers, and Sixers all look pretty set to make the playoffs as well, but there's still an itsy-bitsy chance that things get nutty.