NBA's wild West playoff chase: The most likely, most petty and most entertaining scenarios

Each week during the 2024-25 NBA season, we will take a deeper dive into some of the league’s biggest storylines in an attempt to determine whether trends are based more in fact or fiction moving forward.[Last week: Kevin Durant to the Celtics just makes sense]Fact or Fiction: We solved the Western Conference standingsThe Western Conference playoff picture is a more confounding landscape than the Grand Canyon.One game separates the Nos. 4 through 8 seeds. Depending on who wins what over th