{"id":699644,"date":"2026-04-05T14:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/699644\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T14:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:11:14","slug":"pistons-clinch-top-seed-in-eastern-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/699644\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistons Clinch Top Seed In Eastern Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline\">\n  By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/author\/rorymaher\" title=\"Posts by Rory Maher\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rory Maher<\/a> |<br \/>\n  at April 5, 2026 9:04 am  <\/p>\n<p>The Pistons clinched the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs for the first time since 2006\/07 following Saturday\u2019s lopsided victory in Philadelphia, the NBA announced (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NBAPR\/status\/2040600236083622205\" rel=\"nofollow\">via Twitter<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Detroit is currently 57-21 with four games left in the regular season. The team now has home-court advantage throughout the East playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Rory Maher | at April 5, 2026 9:04 am The Pistons clinched the No. 1 seed in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3773],"tags":[7,296,188,3860,6,297],"class_list":{"0":"post-699644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-pistons","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-pistons","11":"tag-detroitpistons","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-pistons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116352508452364216","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699644","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=699644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}