{"id":706941,"date":"2026-04-09T23:09:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/706941\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T23:09:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:09:18","slug":"nba-play-in-tournament-days-and-times-announced-blazers-look-to-move-up-to-8th-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/706941\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Play-In Tournament days and times announced; Blazers look to move up to 8th seed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 The NBA has released the schedule for the Play-In Tournament and depending on how the Blazers finish the season, they will either host or head to Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE | <a href=\"https:\/\/katu.com\/sports\/trail-blazers\/trail-blazers-suffer-costly-loss-in-san-antonio-return-home-friday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trail Blazers suffer costly loss in San Antonio, return home Friday<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If Portland can capture the 8th seed, they will take on the Suns in Phoenix on Tuesday, April 14. Tipoff would be 7 p.m. To achieve this, the Blazers will likely have to win each of their last two games. <\/p>\n<p>If the Blazers drop a game and finish with the 9th seed, they will host the Golden State Warriors on Wednesday, April 15. Tipoff is also 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The losers of the 7th- and 8th-seed games would host the winner of the 9th- and 10th-seed game on Friday, April 17.<\/p>\n<p>Current NBA Western Conference Standings (as of April 9)<\/p>\n<p>7. Phoenix Suns  44-368. Los Angeles Clippers  41-399. Portland Trail Blazers  40-4010. Golden State Warriors  37-42<\/p>\n<p>The Blazers will face the Clippers at Moda Center on Friday, April 10. They will wrap the regular season on Sunday, April 12, against the Sacramento Kings at Moda Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 The NBA has released the schedule for the Play-In Tournament and depending on how&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3791],"tags":[7,6,2065,472,4045,604],"class_list":{"0":"post-706941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix-suns","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-phoenix","11":"tag-phoenix-suns","12":"tag-phoenixsuns","13":"tag-suns"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116377273200361580","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706941","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=706941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}