The Sharks entered games Tuesday in sixth place in the Western Conference with 42 points.
New Orleans has won six of its last seven games to escape the Western Conference cellar.
His 2010 squad, led by Steve Nash, went 54-28 and advanced to the Western Conference finals.
Vancouver (4-4-4) jumped into sixth place in the Western Conference with its second win since March 9.
This season, the Americans (27-18-2-1) are second in the North Division and sixth in the Western Conference.
In the next round the Galaxy knocks-off the western conference regular season champions the San Jose Earthquakes.
Calgary is 14th in the Western Conference and will likely miss the playoffs for the fourth straight season.
Meanwhile, Memphis, the Western Conference's fifth seed, still held hopes for home-court advantage.
And last year, Duncan's top-seeded Spurs handled the Utah Jazz in four games, but lost in the Western Conference Finals.
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Through Tuesday, Los Angeles was 13th in the Western Conference with eight points, only two more than the last-place Calgary Flames.
It's a significant move for a team that was fourth in the Western Conference and three games behind the third-place Clippers.
They began the day in the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference, a point ahead of Dallas and Columbus.
They don't play at home again until April 4, with the bulk of the trip a six-game stretch against Western Conference teams.
But he ranks 48th among all guards in the NBA in scoring (11.3 points per game) and 26th in the Western Conference.
The Suns' 13-28 record is the worst in the Western Conference and fourth-worst in the NBA. Only Cleveland, Charlotte and Washington are worse.
The Timberwolves opened a 10-point lead early in the second half against a team that was 0-14 on the road against Western Conference teams.
Louis Blues, in the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference, acquired defenseman Jay Bouwmeester from the Calgary Flames on Monday night.
Beckham's side, head into the final as favourites against Salt Lake, who only just made the play-offs by finishing fifth in the Western Conference.
In his first full season in Anaheim, Boudreau led the Ducks to the Pacific Division title and the second seed in the Western Conference playoffs.
The series will be a repeat of last year's Western Conference opening-round series won by the Clippers in seven games, despite Memphis holding home-court advantage.
They listened and turned away a late rally by the Los Angeles Clippers to win 108-104 on Sunday in a matchup of Western Conference contenders.
Houston currently holds the No. 8 spot in the Western Conference.
With his Olympic triple-jump champion father also named Mike Conley in the crowd, Conley Jr. has guided his team to the Western Conference finals with his point-guard play.
The Jazz managed only 32 percent shooting and were outrebounded 57-47 in a game they needed to win to capture the last Western Conference playoff spot.
Parker, the Western Conference player of the month in January, may be appreciated more without them, but said he wants them on the floor with him.
This year, the Lynx are picking up where they left off -- they're leading the Western Conference, and they've already clinched homecourt advantage for the playoffs.
As of Saturday afternoon, the Lakers were one game ahead of the Utah Jazz for the final Western Conference playoffs spot with two games remaining for each.
The victory was the fourth straight for Utah (38-36), which has the same record as the Lakers but owns the tiebreaker for the eighth Western Conference spot.
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