NBA.com's playoff page keeps Monday relevant even as the regular season reaches its final stretch. The bracket still matters, the play-in is close and the April 6 games page shows a compact five-game slate.
The bracket is still live
NBA.com keeps the key dates in view: the play-in tournament starts on April 14 and the playoffs begin on April 18. That means every result still feeds directly into seeding and matchups.
Five games is enough to move the story
The Monday board is small, but it is not empty. A five-game slate can still shift the conversation when late-season margins are thin and every result feeds the bracket.
Why this is a betting story
Late-season NBA betting is about pressure, not volume. When the schedule is short and the postseason picture is still being refined, each game carries a little more weight.