{"id":709836,"date":"2026-04-13T19:55:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/709836\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T19:55:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:55:47","slug":"blazers-finish-8th-in-west-earn-lowest-nba-championship-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/709836\/","title":{"rendered":"Blazers Finish 8th in West, Earn Lowest NBA Championship Odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Portland Trail Blazers earned the 8th spot in the NBA\u2019s Western Conference standings on Sunday by virtue of their season-ending victory over the Sacramento Kings. The win gave Portland a 42-40 record and a shot at making the 2026 NBA Playoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">How good of a shot? That remains to be seen. The Blazers still have to beat at least one of the Phoenix Suns, Los Angeles Clippers, or Golden State Warriors in the NBA Play-In Tournament just to get seeded into the postseason bracket. After that, a stiff test against the first-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder or second-seeded San Antonio Spurs awaits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Obviously if Portland got past that first round, possibilities open up for them, at least until the Conference Finals, when they\u2019d have to face the conference titan they didn\u2019t vanquish in the first round. But that would be a pleasant problem to have.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">How likely is it? <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsbook.fanduel.com\/navigation\/nba?tab=nba-finals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fanduel Sportsbook<\/a> is ranking the Blazers at the bottom of the list among all contenders. On the upside, that\u2019s also the best payoff. The odds are +75000, meaning the Blazers are large underdogs. For every dollar you put on Portland to win it all, you\u2019d get $750 should it pay off. 750-1 odds is pretty much the definition of, \u201cSo you\u2019re saying there\u2019s a chance?\u201d But at least there\u2019s a chance.<\/p>\n<p>Final 2025-2026 NBA Standings<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here are the final standings for each conference, with the play-in ultimately set to decide who will face the top two seeds in each. The No. 2 seed in each conference will play the winner of the 7-8 game, while the No. 1 seed will play the winner of the next game, between the loser of the 7-8 game and winner of the 9-10 game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Portland Trail Blazers earned the 8th spot in the NBA\u2019s Western Conference standings on Sunday by virtue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,6,3101,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-709836","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-nba","11":"tag-nba-news","12":"tag-portland","13":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","14":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","15":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116399162096438581","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709836","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=709836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}