{"id":238942,"date":"2026-04-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/the-nba-postseason-set-up-the-gist\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T00:00:00","slug":"the-nba-postseason-set-up-the-gist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/the-nba-postseason-set-up-the-gist\/","title":{"rendered":"The NBA postseason set-up | The GIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>The sixth edition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/playoffs\/2026\/play-in-tournament\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NBA Play-In Tournament<\/a> wraps up tonight<\/strong> with<strong> <\/strong>a pair of No. 8 seeds still up for grabs. The Charlotte Hornets and Orlando Magic will battle for the final Eastern Conference spot at 7:30 p.m. ET, followed by the Phoenix Suns and Golden State Warriors vying for the West\u2019s at 10 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The rest of the playoff field is already set: The top six teams in each conference <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/standings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">were already locked in<\/a> at the end of the regular season, while the No. 7 seeds \u2014 the Philadelphia 76ers and Portland Trail Blazers \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegistsports.com\/article\/nba-play-in-tournament\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">punched their tickets<\/a> earlier this week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>After tonight\u2019s tilts, the traditional postseason slate tips off tomorrow<\/strong>, starting with the 16-team first round. The league\u2019s top squads (the West\u2019s Oklahoma City Thunder and the East\u2019s Detroit Pistons) will battle the newly-minted No. 8 seeds, the No. 2 seeds will take on the No. 7 seeds, and so on.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>And while the Play-In Tournament has featured do-or-die single games, all four playoff rounds consist of best-of-seven series. The more the merrier, right?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n  n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n  document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '1716705275141133'); \/\/ Insert your pixel ID here.\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n      <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegistsports.com\/article\/the-nba-postseason-set-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sixth edition of the NBA Play-In Tournament wraps up tonight with a pair of No. 8 seeds still up for grabs. The Charlotte Hornets and Orlando Magic will battle for the final Eastern Conference spot at 7:30 p.m. ET, followed by the Phoenix Suns and Golden State Warriors vying for the West\u2019s at 10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6805],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-238942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-womens"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}