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ANALYSIS: The Lakers still have a shot at avoiding the play-in tournament, but they need to win this game and have Portland lose at home to Denver. Both games tip off at 9 p.m. ET so unless the Blazers are blowing out the Nuggets early, Los Angeles should keep all its key guys out there against a Pelicans team with squat to play for and without most key players.

ANALYSIS: The Clippers are basically mailing this one in by sitting most of their key players, including Paul George and Kawhi Leonard. The guys who are playing (Patrick Beverley, etc., are not expected to be out there long). Oklahoma City is god awful but the guys should play hard in the season finale and be able to cover.

ANALYSIS: Portland needs this to avoid the play-in tournament, while it behooves Denver to lose and allow itself to slip to No. 4 in the West and avoid the Los Angeles Lakers (presuming they win in New Orleans; if that happens and the Blazers lose here, L.A. would be the No. 6 seed) in the first round of the playoffs. I was all set to take Portland at -9 but Denver coach Michael Malone says no players will be rested. I still think the Blazers win but that spread is way too big if Malone is to be trusted.

ANALYSIS: Miami is locked into its playoff seeding and thus is resting just about everyone of note in the second of a back-to-back other than Duncan Robinson and Tyler Herro -- and I doubt they play too long. Detroit is terrible but since it's the home finale, we think the outright upset is very possible.