{"id":690984,"date":"2026-04-01T01:32:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T01:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/690984\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T01:32:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T01:32:20","slug":"nuggets-can-clinch-playoff-spot-in-one-simple-way-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/690984\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets Can Clinch Playoff Spot in One Simple Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now just under two weeks to go until the 2025-26 NBA season comes to a close, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/nuggets\/onsi\/news\/nuggets-nikola-jokic-opens-up-about-growing-with-jamal-murray\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> are right within reach of claiming their ticket to be one of the select six playoff teams in the Western Conference to advance to the postseason without having to fight their way through the Play-In Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>And in order to officially stamp their place within the playoff picture just under two weeks out from the season coming to a close, the Nuggets now just need one simple result to fall in their favor in March 31st&#8217;s slate of games\u2013\u2013one that they don&#8217;t even control their own destiny in.<\/p>\n<p>If the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/nuggets\/onsi\/news\/nikola-jokic-makes-nba-history-in-nuggets-magic-01jkfb51ye7p\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando Magic<\/a> defeat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/nuggets\/onsi\/news\/three-takeaways-from-nuggets-bounce-back-win-vs-suns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Suns<\/a> in their Tuesday matchup, dropping the Suns to their 34th loss of the year, it will effectively allow the Nuggets to clinch their own standing in the playoffs as a top-six seed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now just under two weeks to go until the 2025-26 NBA season comes to a close, the Denver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3781],"tags":[7,301,187,3943,6,302],"class_list":{"0":"post-690984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-nuggets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-denver","10":"tag-denver-nuggets","11":"tag-denvernuggets","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nuggets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116326874821519199","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}