The 2024 NBA Playoffs has reached its Final Four -- the pre-postseason favorite Boston Celtics, the Cinderella story Indiana Pacers, the impossible-to-root-against Minnesota Timberwolves, and the team with something to prove Dallas Mavericks.

Both conferences conduct the playoffs in the traditional bracket format. All rounds are best-of-seven series. Series are played in the 2–2–1–1–1 format, meaning the team with home-court advantage hosts games 1, 2, 5, and 7, while their opponent hosts games 3, 4, and 6, with games 5, 6 and 7 being played if needed.

In this format, teams are seeded from 1 to 8 in each conference, with the first seed playing against the eighth, the second against the seventh, and so forth. Teams are reseeded after each round, and this process continues until only one team remains in each conference.

During the playoffs, the first round are split between TNT, ESPN, NBA TV, and ABC on mostly weekends the second round are split between ESPN, TNT and ABC on weekends. The conference finals are split between ESPN/ABC and TNT; the two networks alternate which complete series they will carry from year to year.