{"id":26835,"date":"2023-04-14T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/14\/which-teams-will-advance-to-the-nba-playoffs\/"},"modified":"2023-04-14T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T04:00:00","slug":"which-teams-will-advance-to-the-nba-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/14\/which-teams-will-advance-to-the-nba-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Which teams will advance to the NBA playoffs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>The GIST: <\/strong>Tonight marks the finale of the thrilling NBA play-in tournament, with two do-or-die showdowns on deck. But the hoopin\u2019 is just getting started \u2014 the playoffs begin in earnest tomorrow as the first round series tip off. So much ball, so little time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tonight\u2019s play-in games: <\/strong>Both the Eastern Conference (EC) No. 10 Chicago Bulls and Western Conference (WC) No. 10 Oklahoma City Thunder <a href=\"https:\/\/thegist.createsend1.com\/t\/t-l-fuljtdt-jdlljdidhr-z\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">channeled their inner Drake<\/a>, eliminating the No. 9 Toronto Raptors and No. 9 New Orleans Pelicans, respectively, to earn their spot in tonight\u2019s must-win matchups.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Weekend playoff preview: <\/strong>Whether this is your first season of <a href=\"https:\/\/thegist.createsend1.com\/t\/t-l-fuljtdt-jdlljdidhr-yd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Real Housewives of the NBA Playoffs<\/a> or your 50th, here\u2019s a quick refresher on the playoff format: From here on out, each round consists of a seven-game series. In the first round, the No. 1 seed in each conference plays the No. 8 seed (which will be grabbed tonight), No. 2 faces No. 7, and so on.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two must-watch series? In the WC, it\u2019s the No. 3 Sacramento Kings, who\u2019ll make their first playoff appearance in 17 years when they host the defending champ No. 6 Golden State Warriors tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. ET.<\/li>\n<li>Then on Sunday, superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo (pronounced ah-det-oh-KOON-boh) and his EC No. 1 Milwaukee Bucks take on the winner of tonight\u2019s Heat\/Bulls game. 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Tonight\u2019s play-in games: Both the Eastern Conference (EC) No. 10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26836,"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-26835","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\/26835","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=26835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}