With 8 games left to the season, we are one game back in the standings for the 10 spot

New Orleans	32	43	.427	29.0	18-21	6-9	21-24	5-5	108.8	109.8	-1.0	W-1	+30000
LA Lakers	31	43	.419	29.5	20-18	3-11	16-28	3-7	111.6	114.3	-2.7	L-2	+10000
San Antonio	30	44	.405	30.5	14-23	5-8	20-24	6-4	112.9	113.2	-0.3	W-3	+100000

The Lakers are reeling and Lebron just twisted his ankle - probably going to miss a couple games at least, we also have a significantly easier schedule remaining.

Spurs remaining games:

@Houston

Memphis

Portland

Portland

@Denver

@Minnesota

Golden State

@Dallas

With Portland shamelessly tanking and Houston as bad as they are, I'd say 4-4 is a fairly likely scenario, assuming we pick up one of the remaining 5 games

Lakers Remaining Schedule:

@Dallas

@Utah

New Orleans

Denver

@Phoenix

@Golden State

OKC

@Denver

If you concede the Lakers the OKC game, they'd still need to pick up an additional 3 wins with a fairly tough schedule, AND we own the tiebreaker (2-2 head to head, but 4 games ahead in the conference w/l).

The Pelicans have a pretty easy schedule including Portland 2x, LA Lakers and Clippers (who have lost 5 in a row), and Sacramento among their 7 remaining games.

Of course anything can happen - we aren't good enough to guarantee anything, but I think it's more likely than not we'll at least make the play-in. That does hurt our lottery chances, but it's the way it's set up.

If we do make the play-in, we'd have to beat New Orleans and then probably the Clippers (losing to the T-Wolves). I'd say we would at least have a decent chance of pulling that off.