The event is scheduled to tip off next Tuesday with the 7th-place teams taking on the 8th-place teams in their respective conferences. In the Western Conference, if the Blazers secure 8th place heading into the Play-In, they\u2019ll play the 7th-place Phoenix Suns on Tuesday at 7 p.m. Pacific on the road to determine who enters the NBA Playoffs as the 7th seed.<\/p>\n
Then the Play-In Tournament continues Wednesday with the 9th-place teams taking on the 10th-place teams in their respective conferences. If the Blazers enter the Play-In in 9th place, they\u2019ll play the 10th-place Golden State Warriors on Wednesday at 7 p.m. Pacific at Moda Center. The loser of this game will be eliminated from postseason contention.<\/p>\n
On Friday, the Play-In Tournament will conclude for both conferences when the losers of the 7-versus-8 matchups plays the winners of the 9-versus-10 matchups. The Eastern Conference matchup is scheduled to tip off at 4:30 p.m. Pacific, while the Western Conference matchup is slated for 7 p.m. Pacific. The winners of these games will secure the 8th seed in their respective conferences, while the losers will be eliminated.<\/p>\n
If the Blazers enter this game as the 8th-place team following a loss to the Suns, this game will be played at Moda Center. If the Blazers enter this game as the 9th-place team following a win over the Warriors, they\u2019ll have to play this game on the road either in Phoenix or LA.<\/p>\n
So there you have it. Now it\u2019s up to the Blazers over the last two regular-season games to decide if they enter the Play-In Tournament with a more favorable path to reach the Playoffs for the first time in five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The event is scheduled to tip off next Tuesday with the 7th-place teams taking on the 8th-place teams…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,37660,6,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-706882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portland-trail-blazers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blazers","10":"tag-blazers-news","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-portland","13":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","14":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","15":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116376860298060103","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706882","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=706882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}