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NBA Playoff Race Update: Bucks Back on the Bubble?
Our updated playoff odds include a look at the sliding Bucks and the surging Blazers. Which other teams' postseason chances changed dramatically this week?

Western Conference - Dead or Dying

(11) Los Angeles Lakers (31-39, 0.0%)
(12) Sacramento Kings (23-49, eliminated)
(13) Dallas Mavericks (22-49, eliminated)
(14) Memphis Grizzlies (19-52, eliminated)
(15) Phoenix Suns (19-53, eliminated)

The Lakers managed to stave off statistical elimination from playoff contention for yet another week. We still give them a definitive 0.0% chance of making it, but the 9.5-game gap between them and the eighth-place Utah Jazz is technically surmountable with 12 games left on the schedule, even if it is ridiculously improbable.

Meanwhile, teams 12 through 15 went a combined 2-9 this week. Nothing more to see here.

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