The Warriors are winless in their play-in tournament history.
Warriors star Stephen Curry complains about a call to Bill Kennedy during their game against the Minnesota Timberwolves in the first half at Chase Center on March 26, 2023, in San Francisco.After the Wolves' win over the Kings on Monday night, the Warriors and Wolves are both 39-37 entering Tuesday's games. If both teams win out, Minnesota will finish in the top six, while the Warriors would be in the play-in tournament barring a collapse by the Clippers or Suns.
However, when the NBA adopted the play-in tournament for the 2020-2021 season, it took two formerly automatic postseason berths and turned them into maybes. Now, the seventh and eighth seeds go into the play-in with the ninth and 10th seeds, where they have to win at least one more game to punch their playoff ticket; if they lose twice, they can be leapfrogged by one of the lower-seeded teams, as happened to the Clippers in 2022.
Warriors players seem to know how risky being involved in the play-in can be."We definitely want to stay out of the play-in tournament,"
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