{"id":712435,"date":"2026-04-17T12:51:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/712435\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T12:51:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:51:25","slug":"bruins-and-celtics-prepare-for-playoff-runs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/712435\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruins and Celtics prepare for playoff runs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(WJAR)  \u2014 The Bruins are back in the Stanley Cup chase after missing the playoffs last season.<\/p>\n<p>The Bruins are back in the Stanely Cup chase after missing the playoffs last season.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics had an unlikely dominant season after superstar Jayson Tatum tore his achilles during last year\u2019s playoff.<\/p>\n<p>After that significant loss, this year was supposed to be a wash, but it turned out Jalyn Brown was pretty great as the first scoring option.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics open up round 1 Sunday at 1:00 PM on Coastal ABC, where the schedule is a bit different.<\/p>\n<p>Game 2 is Tuesday, with 3 Friday, and from there they&#8217;ll play every other day .<\/p>\n<p>Both series are best of 7, so whoever wins four games first moves on, the loser goes home<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WJAR) \u2014 The Bruins are back in the Stanley Cup chase after missing the playoffs last season. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[7,45,75,3798,46,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-712435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-celtics","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-celtics","11":"tag-bostonceltics","12":"tag-celtics","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116420141587916622","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712435","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=712435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}