Pulpo
The seeding goes like this. To prevent that if every high seed wins, numer one and two don´t encounter until the finals.
Therefore, with the upsets from Jazz and SPurs, Lakers need to play Jazz, and Suns play the Spurs
1- Lakers
8- Thunder
4- Nuggets
5- Jazz
2- Mavericks
7- Spurs
3- Suns
6- Blazers
don stoddard
Why do the # 1 LA lAKERS play # 5 Utah and not # 7 Phoenix ?