• Regular season seeds No. 7 and 8 play a single game, with the winner going straight to the playoffs as the No. 7 seed (to face the No. 2 seed). • Regular season seeds Nos. 9 and 10 play a single-elimination game, from which the loser is out and goes home.

The NBA playoffs begin Saturday with four games, including the Minnesota Timberwolves at the Los Angeles Lakers.

The Rockets ranked last in ball movement, averaging just 294 passes per 24 minutes of possession, and they were 25th in player movement (10.7 miles per 24). While Golden State led the league by a wide margin in assist rate (recording assists on 71.4% of their field goals), Houston ranked last (54.9%) by an even wider margin.