{"id":708314,"date":"2026-04-11T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/708314\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T16:56:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:56:00","slug":"all-knicks-playoff-scenarios-heading-into-sundays-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/708314\/","title":{"rendered":"All Knicks\u2019 playoff scenarios heading into Sunday\u2019s finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">It\u2019s that time of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">That time of the year when we come up with a thousand possibilities, anxiously think about this and that and the other thing\u2026 only for everything to unfold and be resolved by itself in 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">We just can\u2019t help ourselves, can we? That\u2019s why, with just one game left to play and the Knicks locked into the No. 3 seed out East, we\u2019re presenting you with all possible four first-round opponents and all scenarios that would lead to each of those matchups, depending on Sunday\u2019s results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Rest assured, New York will be hosting whoever happens to cross their path for the first two games of the series.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"300\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/117097c76e94fd2e4eba0be36dc86c72.jpeg\"\/>NY Knicks vs. TOR Raptors<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Hawks win AND Raptors win<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Hawks lose AND Raptors win AND Magic win<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"300\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a915c305a170457b0b88981b62d4153e.jpeg\"\/>NY Knicks vs. ATL Hawks<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Hawks lose AND Raptors win AND Magic lose<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"300\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/6c639e48523580f0e0f59a693d77963c.jpeg\"\/>NY Knicks vs. ORL Magic<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Hawks lose AND Raptors lose AND Magic win<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Hawks win AND Raptors lose AND Magic win<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"300\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1fa09aceaceb203fc7bfa030009157d1.jpeg\"\/>NY Knicks vs. PHI Sixers<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Raptors lose AND Magic lose AND Sixers win<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">All games with Eastern Conference-seeding implications are scheduled for 6 p.m. ET, so you can start making room for the 6-9 timespan.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"954\" height=\"1288\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/344f26bfa14e9f77a42c44ca9edb2562.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s that time of the year. That time of the year when we come up with a thousand&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,568,677,304,150,6,66128,1136,191,3810,3806,96],"class_list":{"0":"post-708314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-getty-images","10":"tag-hawks","11":"tag-knicks","12":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-nbae","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-knicks","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkknicks","19":"tag-sixers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116387131023268984","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708314","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=708314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}