Sixteen teams in total make the NBA playoffs, eight teams from both the Eastern and Western Conference. The top six seeds in each conference advance based on the regular season record. The final two seeds in each conference are determined by the NBA Play-In Tournament.

The field for the second round is beginning to take shape in the 2025 NBA playoffs. Eleven teams remain in the playoff bracket, and five teams -- the Thunder, Cavaliers, Pacers, Celtics and Timberwolves -- have already moved on.

The Wolves didn't just dispatch the Lakers in five games; they came into L.A. for Game 5 and took their spirit: as they were all series long, Minnesota was too big, too strong, too fast for a Lakers team whose dynamic duo looked run ragged by series end (and who never managed to find enough viable pieces around them after acquiring Doncic back in February).