Using the example above and with the same 162-game season, team A has 8 games remaining.

They have three games remaining in the final week of the season.

He was given the position until the end of the season, with five games remaining.

Instead, they have lost three of four with one game remaining today.

All I want them to care about is that we have 17 games remaining.

They have five games remaining: two at home and three on the road.

Four games remain, however, and three of them are at the Garden.

But with five games remaining for most teams, anything can happen.

And with 61 games remaining, that is a bad sign.

The leaders have eight games remaining, including the last three against each other in Boston.