On July 30th, the NBA restarted their season with a total of 22 NBA teams invited into the Walt Disney World Resort bubble. The resumption of the season happened without the presence of eight teams that didn’t quality: the Charlotte Hornets, Chicago Bulls, New York Knicks, Detroit Pistons, Atlanta Hawks, Cleveland Cavaliers, Minnesota Timberwolves and Golden State Warriors – in order of best of the worst to worst record.

It’s hard to believe that those 22 teams have already played eight regular season games; got back into shape and the seedings for the playoffs have now been determined.

Printable NBA Playoff Bracket

The best 22 teams were chosen for the bubble based on their records when the season was suspended back in March. That includes the sixteen teams in the main bracket that would have made the playoffs based on NBA standings and six teams that were vying for that eighth and final postseason spot. This is what the NBA playoff bracket looks like with seedings:

Altogether there are 13 teams from the Western Conference and 9 teams from the Eastern Conference.

NBA Play-in Tournament

The league also outlined a play-in tournament for the No. 8 seed in both conferences. The play-in game(s) will only be activated if #9 seed is four games (or fewer) behind the #8 seed in the final league standings. If not, then the #8 seed will proceed into the larger bracket based on their record. The Memphis Grizzlies made this happen in the West, and ended up losing to the #8 seeded Portland Trailblazers led by CJ McCollum‘s big fourth quarter

Print Your NBA Playoff Bracket for 2020

Now you know what’s up with this year’s version of the NBA Playoffs, you can now print out your preferred bracket to follow along all the post season action. The first NBA Playoff bracket we have is a simple 16-team bracket  template without the playoff teams seeded into it.

The above is great for those that like a more minimal list and not take up too much ink.

Damian Lillard, McCollum and the Blazers will now move into the main playoff bracket and face off against #1 seeded Los Angeles Lakers led by LeBron James. For those of you that like a little pop of color and excitement, we present to you this second NBA playoff bracket which is a colorful, printer friendly version of the NBA Playoff bracket in PDF format.

You can see this one has both the seeds and teams. Warning this one will use more ink, but it’s pretty! So print out the first 2020 NBA Playoff bracket we put forth above in PDF here. Or you can print out the second, more colorful design in PDF by clicking here.

NBA Season and Playoff Schedule

The NBA resumed the 2019-20 season starting on July 31 after putting the season on hold due to the Covid-19 pandemic. As for the timing of the 2020 NBA Playoffs, the play-in mini tournament started on August 15, 2020. The mini play-in playoff games would be a best of two with favored to the #8 seed where the #9 seed would have to win two consecutive games while the #8 seed would only have to defeat the  seed would need to defeat the No. 8 seed two games in a row. The main playoff bracket kicks off on Monday, August 17th all the way to Game 7 of the NBA Finals (if necessary) scheduled for Oct. 12.