2022 NBA Play-In Tournament

The NBA Play-In Tournament is the preliminary National Basketball Association (NBA) postseason tournament. It determines the final two playoff seeds in the Eastern Conference and Western Conference and is played immediately prior to the NBA Playoffs, which is main tournament of the postseason and regarded by the league as separate from the Play-In Tournament. The 2022 NBA Play-In Tournament will begin Tuesday, April 12 and conclude Friday, April 15, 2022. The teams with the seventh-highest and eighth-highest winning percentages in each conference will each have two opportunities to win one game to earn a playoff spot. The teams with the ninth-highest and tenth-highest winning percentages in each conference will each have to win two consecutive games to earn a playoff spot.