This is what it all comes down to! The final week of the regular season, but it’s only a few more days of games left before the playoffs start on Saturday! Here are all games this week that have playoff seeding implications!
Eastern Conference
Race for the 3rd Seed in the East

Going into Monday, the Hawks lead by one game over the Celtics. Both teams have wrapped up the fourth seed at worst. Hawks win both and it’s all theirs!
Hawks @ Bucks (Monday)
Celtics @ Bulls (Tuesday)
Bucks @ Celtics (Wednesday)
Cavs @ Hawks (Wednesday)
Race for the …

NBA to OKC Thunder: “My Bad”

Did anyone here watch that incredible Jazz/Thunder game on Tuesday night? It was as entertaining a game as there has been all season, and luckily I got to see most of the end on NBAtv. Only problem was, they went to a commercial instead of continuing their bonus coverage of the game on Fan Night, so the last play of the game wasn’t live. For a non-buzzer beater, this was almost as entertaining as the Duke/Butler NCAA final.
With a second left, Kevin Durant’s arm got …

Back in 1993, the now legendary NBA Jam series debuted at your local arcade and devoured my weekly allowance with reckless abandon. 
Gamers around the world could finally challenge friends, mothers, brothers, sisters, fathers, co-workers, grandparents, and even their creepy uncles as the likes of Charles Barkley, Scottie Pippen, Patrick Ewing, and Kenny ‘The Jet’ Smith, to a high-flying, fire starting, jam fest. 
I can remember stepping up against my neighbors as Chuck (Charles Barkley) and Kevin Johnson; Unstoppable.  Playing against random foes on the boardwalk I’d roll in with Scottie Pippen …

Tough to think a month went by already, but it did. March Madness came and went out with a few surprises.
I think one of the biggest surprises this month was that for the first time in a while, the 8 teams from the West have all but been locked in. Lakers, Nuggets, Mavs, Thunder, Jazz, Blazers, Spurs, Suns. Guessing the order, however, is about as close as trying to guess how many Big East teams would get in if the tournament field was expanded to 96 (I say 14, Seton …

With only about a half dozen games to go on the schedule for most teams, you’ll notice in this week’s What to Watch for that many matchups are possible first round previews. But the West is the craziest as teams 2 through 8 are only four games apart.

Monday
No games on Monday to pay respects to the college game. But you know what, you should definitely stop at MLBtoday.net to catch up on baseball. And if you are watching the men’s college championship, then root for Butler. Frig Duke.
Tuesday
Hawks @ Bobcats …

Scottie Pippen and Karl Malone will be inducted into the Hall of Fame this summer with the official announcement coming on Monday.  Pippen and Malone are well beyond deserving of their Hall of Fame induction.  Scottie Pippen has always lived in Michael Jordan’s shadow and fortunately for him he won the same 6 NBA Championships that Jordan did.  Karl Malone will definitely go down as one of the top 50 NBA players of all-time and he NEVER won a championship, but he is 2nd all-time in points scored.
Like I said, Scottie …

Contracts are a big part of the NBA and its players.  Everyone wants to make money and support their family, but sometimes it takes more than money to become a winner in this game.  In the West, a lot of teams are coming on strong at the end of the season including Dallas, Pheonix and Utah.
So that being said, will this be the year that the Suns and Jazz play in the Western Conference Finals (pending the seeding it set up for that matchup)?  Do you think I’m crazy for asking that …