Does the Warriors' game matter today? How Golden State playoff, play-in seeding works in Western Conference standings

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The Golden State Warriors play their final game of the NBA regular season on Sunday evening.

They'll be on the road at the Los Angeles Clippers as basketball fans begin to look toward the play-in tournament and the playoffs.

The Clippers can still seize the eighth-seed with a win and some help.

For the Warriors, though, the game isn't much of anything.

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Does the Warriors' game matter today?

For Golden State, Sunday's game doesn't matter.

No matter what happens, they'll be locked into the 10-seed in the Western Conference. That's the final play-in spot.

The 10-seed travels to the 9-seed for an opening play-in game. If the 10 wins there, they have to play the loser of the 7-8 play-in game, and have to win again -- and that's just for the right to play top-seed Oklahoma City in the first round of the actual playoffs.

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The most intriguing part of Sunday's game is that, if the Clippers don't get the help they need, they'll be the 9-seed. Which means that Golden State will play in this same arena in the play-in round this week as the Clippers would host the Warriors in the 9-10 game.

That'd certainly make for compelling TV, if the Warriors can somehow get a little healthier.

Even if not, it'd be a couple of well-known teams in a spotlight that they'd probably prefer was the actual playoffs as opposed to the play-in.

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Does the Warriors' game matter today? How Golden State playoff, play-in seeding works in Western Conference standings

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