Are Kings sacrificial lamb?

If we can all agree that Lakers and Warriors will NOT end up as 9 and 10 seeds because that would be a ratings disaster having one of those darlings eliminated in a 1 game elimination then what has to happen to get one or both of those teams out of 9/10 and up to 7/8? The key is getting to 47 wins, that must happen or all is moot.

One scenario is: Sac cannot get to 47 wins b/c if they do AND Lakers and Warriors do also by winning their remaining games THEN Sac wins all tiebreakers as they won season series vs Lakers and they win the tiebreaker against Warriors by virtue of tying season series but having better division record which means they win that tie. So, if that is the premise then Sac has to lose 2 of last 3 against Pels/Phx/Port. I'd say last game vs Blazers is an auto win so the League has to get them a quick loss and that opportunity is tonight hosting Pels.

Ultimately in a perfect world for the League Lakers end up #7 and Warriors #8 that would mean:

# 7 Lakers play and win vs #8 seed and are locked into 7 seed

#8 seed then plays winner of 9/10 which in this scenario will be Warriors, Warriors win and advance to 8 seed

Thoughts?

@StraightWagers

 Makes sense SW. at first, I was contemplating them wanting Phoenix back at 6 to avoid play in but your scenario makes it more exciting

@StraightWagers

 Actually love your scenario after further thought. Didn’t realize Suns had tie breaker over Pelicans

But golden state won the season series with the lakers?

or they could throw us a curve ball and just let lakers warriors be #9 and #10. 

Great minds think…..

One curveball, and a big one, is if Pels lose last 3 games and are stuck at 47 wins they'd lose both tiebreakers to Lakers and Warriors if they both get to 47 wins....tonight's Pels/Kings game is massive...let's see who ref crew is

@Klaydo

 Lakers still .5 games above gsw

@StraightWagers

 Pelicans has beaten Kings 4x in a row. Yet spread is basically a PK. Last few h2h it was -3.5 and -4.5 and they lost.

Feels like if Kings were to win, spread would’ve been the same. Oddsmakers signaling their hand….

Of course Zarba is lead ref

well we have a long time until that 7pm PST Pels/Kings tip to think

in the meantime Bulls only need 1 win to secure home court for play in vs Hawks so I'm banking they throw the kitchen sink at Pistons to start as this is front end of a road road b2b and typically early games this point in the season blow up 1st half

over 53.5 1st qtr Bulls/Pistons

As of 1154am est….

Things are pointing to New Orleans

Early yet though of course

349pm est….

Things still looking New Orleans way

That’s my thoughts so far, that’s what I’m getting

Still early

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Season sweep 

452pm est

Things are flattening out a bit, kind of getting neutral per se

Like I said earlier, it’s early, and still early

I actually really like this pelicans team...... in general not just tonight..... will ingram be back for playoffs?

Game on…

The play is in

What play is in?

I think this is a bigger game for New Orleans to avoid a play-in game, but Sacramento can still, probably highly unlikely, get a 6 seed, but at least a home play-in game.

@Masshole617

 Ingram is listed as questionable tonight.

Sacramento has a few players also questionable to play

Have to wait on that before deciding but both teams should have a motivation 

@StraightWagers

 Nice start to the evening sir

It’s gonna happen tonight, watch, I HIT it again look at my thread

No Brandon Ingram tonight 

Just came to say I like the Kings tonight, mainly due to Ingram being out.

No factor