{"id":701057,"date":"2026-04-06T08:08:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T08:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/701057\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T08:08:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T08:08:39","slug":"portland-trail-blazers-guaranteed-one-home-postseason-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/701057\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland Trail Blazers Guaranteed One Home Postseason Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">By nature of the Golden State Warriors losing tonight, Portland is now four games ahead of Golden State with four games to play. Since Portland won their season series, the Blazers can no longer fall to 10th. That means Portland will play at home\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Blazers will play their first postseason game this year since 2021 when the Terry Stotts- and Damian Lillard-led 42-30 Blazers lost in 6 games to the Denver Nuggets in the first round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Portland is tied with the Los Angeles Clippers after Los Angeles\u2019 win tonight against the Sacramento Kings, and both the Blazers and Clippers have four games to play. The Blazers need to beat the Clippers this Fri. April 10 to own the tiebreaker and finish 8th if they end the season tied; otherwise, the Clippers will finish 8th if the teams are tied to end the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Portland takes on the Denver Nuggets tomorrow in Denver at 6pm Pacific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By nature of the Golden State Warriors losing tonight, Portland is now four games ahead of Golden State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,37660,6,11],"class_list":{"0":"post-701057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-playoffs","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blazers-news","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-nba-playoffs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116356743525431023","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701057","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=701057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}