{"id":709665,"date":"2026-04-13T13:03:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/709665\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T13:03:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:03:54","slug":"heres-the-playoff-schedule-for-the-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/709665\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s the playoff schedule for the Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Denver Nuggets, seeded third, are set to face the Minnesota Timberwolves in the NBA playoffs&#8217; first round, starting Saturday at Ball Arena with home-court advantage.<\/p>\n<p>DENVER \u2014 The Denver Nuggets are set to compete in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/2026-nba-playoffs-series-preview-nuggets-timberwolves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">NBA playoffs\u00a0<\/a>for an eighth consecutive season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The third-seeded Nuggets (54-28) will face six-seed Minnesota Timberwolves (48-33) in the first round with home-court advantage in the best-of-seven series.<\/p>\n<p>The first playoff game tips off at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Ball Arena. The game will air on Prime Video.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the schedule has yet to be announced. Tickets for the playoffs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/nuggets\/tickets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">are on sale now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nMinnesota Timberwolves vs. Denver Nuggets                    <\/p>\n<p>Game 1: Timberwolves at Nuggets | Saturday, April 18 (1:30 MT, Prime Video)Game 2:\u00a0Timberwolves at Nuggets\u00a0(TBD)Game 3:\u00a0Nuggets\u00a0at Timberwolves (TBD)Game 4:\u00a0Nuggets\u00a0at Timberwolves\u00a0(TBD)Game 5: Timberwolves at Nuggets (TBD)*Game 6: Nuggets at Timberwolves (TBD)*Game 7: Timberwolves at Nuggets (TBD)*                    <\/p>\n<p>The NBA playoffs begin Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com\/article\/syndication\/associatedpress\/play-in-tournament-will-decide-the-final-4-spots-in-nba-playoff-field\/616-7fca5b2f-514a-47ac-b7cd-b7df812bbde9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">with a play-in tournament.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nNBA playoff play-in schedule                    <\/p>\n<p>East No. 10 Miami at East No. 9 Charlotte, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.West No. 8 Portland at West No. 7 Phoenix, Tuesday, 10 p.m.East No. 8 Orlando at East No. 7 Philadelphia, Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.West No. 10 Golden State at West No. 9 Los Angeles Clippers, Wednesday, 10 p.m.                    <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nHow it works                    <\/p>\n<p>Every game will either have a team clinching a playoff berth and\/or being eliminated from postseason contention.<\/p>\n<p>Losers of Miami-Charlotte and Golden State-LA Clippers games are eliminated.Winners of Portland-Phoenix and Orlando-Philadelphia games become No. 7 seeds on playoff bracket (East will face Boston in Round 1, West will face San Antonio in Round 1.)Orlando-Philadelphia loser will host Miami-Charlotte winner Friday (7:30 p.m.) to determine No. 8 seed in East and who&#8217;ll face No. 1 Detroit in Round 1. Losing team in that game is eliminated.Portland-Phoenix loser will host Golden State-LA Clippers winner Friday (10 p.m.) to determine No. 8 seed in West and who&#8217;ll face No. 1 Oklahoma City in Round 1. Losing team in that game is eliminated.                    <\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/dc82af38-45bb-4c78-89e9-476ae5c2c083_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Denver Nuggets, seeded third, are set to face the Minnesota Timberwolves in the NBA playoffs&#8217; first round,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3781],"tags":[7,301,187,3943,6,302],"class_list":{"0":"post-709665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-nuggets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-denver","10":"tag-denver-nuggets","11":"tag-denvernuggets","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nuggets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116397545061801006","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709665","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=709665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}