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News and updates about the playoffsbracket site.
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- 2026-08-06
A summer of rebuilding
The Knicks closed out the 2026 playoffs in June, and we spent the weeks after taking the site apart and putting it back together. The short version: the archive is finally complete, and most of what you look at got rebuilt underneath.
Every game, every year
This is the big one. Until now most seasons only carried series results — who won, and how many games. Now all 43 seasons from 1984 to 2026 carry every game of every series, with its date, both scores, and which team was at home. That’s 3,375 games, up from 991, and every one of them was read against basketball-reference.
Checking that carefully turned up things we’d had wrong for years. Two seasons had their Eastern seeding transposed, which quietly put the right games in the wrong series. Two dozen games had home and away backwards. A handful had the wrong score. And every nba.com game link was built per series rather than per game, so half of them pointed at the wrong host team. All fixed.
Home and away, at a glance
The little game circles used to be two shades of green, which asked you to tell colors apart at 16 pixels. Home is now a filled circle and away is an outline. A difference in shape survives a printout, a grayscale screen, and color blindness in a way two greens don’t — and there’s a key on the page now saying so.
A theme switcher, finally
Back in 2023 we added dark mode and said we wanted a manual toggle to go with it. It’s here. A button at the end of the nav cycles through light, dark, and follow-your-system, and picking a theme in one tab now carries to your other open tabs. While we were in there we swept the whole site for text that didn’t meet WCAG AA contrast in either theme, and rebuilt the mobile round switcher as real buttons so it works from a keyboard.
Logos, from three copies to one
Every team’s era-correct logo now comes from a single canonical set of artwork instead of three overlapping ones. Champions on the season list wear the crest they actually wore that year. We also found that the logo files shared generic internal names, so on some pages one team’s artwork was quietly borrowing pieces of another’s.
The nicest side effect: a bracket page now ships only the logos it actually shows. 1984 had been carrying ten franchises that didn’t exist yet, and its page got 40% smaller.
Also new since June: the Timberwolves 2026-27 logo, and the logo gallery extended through 2026.
Under the hood
Hugo and Sass are up to date, stylesheets and scripts are served with proper cache-busting, and a pile of dead files went in the bin. Nothing you’d see, except the site loading faster.
Next season
The 2027 bracket is already up, and once the season tips off it will re-seed itself from the standings every morning.
- 2024-08-15
Added 2024-25 Brooklyn Nets logo
The new Brooklyn Nets logo has been added.
- 2024-03-24
Added 2024-25 Clippers logo
The new Los Angeles Clippers logo has been added.
- 2023-10-17
Fall 2023 Updates
Some slight logo updates to start off the 2023-24 NBA season!
Updates
- Updated 2023-24 logo colors:
Additions
- New primary logo for New Orleans Pelicans
- Classic logo for Dallas Mavericks (1981)
- 2023-05-20
Lots of fixes and updates
As the 2023 NBA Playoffs are in full swing, we’ve also been busy with lots of updates and improvements.
Fixes
- Dark/light theme color fixes
- Swapped incorrectly labeled home/away color key
Updates
- New switch design in bracket controls
- Always show bracket controls, instead of hiding them initially
- Wide brackets by default, introduced narrow switch
Additions
- Classic logos for
- Bucks
- Bullets
- Cavaliers
- Celtics
- Clippers
- Hawks
- Jazz
- Kings
- Knicks
- Nets
- Nuggets
- Pacers
- Pistons
- Rockets
- 76ers
- Spurs
- Suns
- Supersonics
- Trailblazers
- Warriors
- Some print styles added
- 2023-04-23
Fixed broken links
It seems the links on the brackets - that link to individual games and team sites - haven’t been accessible via clicks for a while.
This is now fixed.
- 2023-04-15
The 2023 NBA Playoffs are here!
The 2023 NBA Playoffs bracket is decided and we’re in business. We’ll be updating with all of the first round action on a daily basis.
Don’t forget to check out the past NBA playoffs brackets to track your favorite teams over the years.
- 2023-02-24
Daily updates, dark mode, new 2022-23 logos
A bunch of new updates:
- We’re back with daily standings updates, showing progress in the play-in and regular bracket as we finish out the 2022-23 season.
- Introducing dark mode! According to your system theme settings, this site will present itself in either dark or light mode. We’re looking to add a manual theme switcher toggle soon, as well.
- We’ve updated logos for the 2022-23 season for the Utah Jazz and Cleveland Cavaliers. Past years still represent their logos at those times, of course.
To-do:
- Might replace the Cavaliers ‘C’ logo with their new shield logo. Looking to see usage from their brand there.
- Some logos like the Grizzlies, Warriors, Lakers and Thunder don’t represent well in dark mode. Looking for ways to remedy or alleviate that.
- NBA index doesn’t look how I’d like it to in dark mode. Thinking of improvements there.
- 2022-05-11
NBA Years 1984-1998 Added
Added years 1984-1998 to the NBA archive, with accurate vintage logos and round results. Games will be added at a later date. Now access almost 40 years of NBA Playoffs results!
Coming up next: Visualizing playoffs data and facts over the years. Who has won the most, East or West? Which team won the most? Plus, individual team histories.
- 2022-04-16
The 2022 NBA Playoffs bracket is on!
- Check out the 2022 NBA Playoffs bracket, updated daily with results and scores
- Added bracket controls to the 2022 bracket, allowing toggling of scores, games, and seed numbers
- 2021-11-19
Adds 2021-22 live bracket
- Added 2021-22 “live” bracket
- Added Blog area
- Updated RSS feed with blog posts
- Updated 2020+ Atlanta Hawks logo
- 2021-04-06
Adds 2021
- Added 2021 “live” bracket
- New slimmer view of live bracket
- Updated 2020-2021 Toronto Raptors logo
- 2020-08-17
Bug fixes
- Added global footer to bracket pages
- Fixed misaligned gear on bracket controls toggle
- Fixed misaligned toggle switches in bracket controls
- Fixed NBA logo size on homepage
- 2020-08-15
Initial publish to prod
Moving current progress from staging to production.