


Game 82 for every team in the NBA has arrived. For 10 clubs, it’s the end of the season. For 13 others, it’s one last game before the postseason.
All 30 teams will be in action. Some just want to get things over with. Some want answers — and will get them.
The Eastern Conference order is set going into Sunday: Cleveland is No. 1, Boston is No. 2, New York is No. 3 (and will play No. 6 Detroit) and Indiana is No. 4 (and will play No. 5 Milwaukee). No. 7 Orlando hosts No. 8 Atlanta on Tuesday in a play-in game, and No. 9 Chicago hosts No. 10 Miami on Wednesday in an elimination game.
Playing in all 82
There are 11 players entering Sunday with a chance of appearing in all 82 games, and six with a chance to start all 82.
New York’s Mikal Bridges is in line to play all 82 -- again. He’s appeared in all 555 possible regular-season games of his career, 39 more in the playoffs and all 116 of Villanova’s games when he was in college. His last game missed: one game because of illness in his junior year of high school.
San Antonio’s Chris Paul could become the second-oldest player, behind John Stockton, to start all 82 games. Stockton did it in the season where he turned 40; Paul won’t turn 40 until May 6. Paul could become the first player to do so in Year 20 of a career or later; Stockton played 19 seasons.
The others who could start 82: Cleveland’s Jarrett Allen, San Antonio’s Harrison Barnes, Houston’s Jalen Green and Minnesota’s Jaden McDaniels.
In addition to Bridges, Paul, Allen, Barnes, Green and McDaniels, San Antonio’s Julian Champagnie, Golden State’s Buddy Hield, Detroit’s Malik Beasley, Washington’s Bub Carrington and Minnesota’s Nickeil Alexander-Walker could play in their 82nd games of the season on Sunday.
50-win teams
Oklahoma City, Cleveland, Boston, Houston, the Lakers and New York have already reached the 50-win mark this season.
Indiana, Denver and the Clippers could all get there on Sunday. If they all do, it’ll be the first time the NBA has seen nine teams win 50 games in the same season since 10 clubs did it in 2014-15.
The Thunder, Cavaliers and Celtics will all finish with at least 60 wins. That’s the most in the NBA since three teams did it in 2008-09 — and Boston has won 60 for a 15th time, extending its NBA mark for the most such seasons.