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Brandon Ingram and the Raptors face the Cavaliers in Game 1 of their 2026 NBA Playoffs series at 1 ET on Prime.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re bringing you the best of the 2026 NBA Playoffs<\/a>, presented by Google, with the NBA.com live blog, featuring all of the meaningful moments, performances, observations, news, notes and highlights from the day\u2019s action.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve got a quadruple-header on one of the best basketball days of the year!<\/p>\n Brandon Ingram\u2019s Raptors face Donovan Mitchell\u2019s Cavaliers to tip things off (1 ET, Prime<\/a>), followed by Timberwolves-Nuggets (3:30 ET, Prime<\/a>), Hawks-Knicks (6:00 ET, Prime<\/a>) and Rockets-Lakers (8:30 ET, ABC<\/a>).<\/p>\n What we know about Saturday\u2019s games:<\/p>\n The Timberwolves and Nuggets faced off in two of the last three NBA Playoffs, with each team winning a series. APRIL 17, 2026 \/ 12:15 ET<\/p>\n Evan Mobley and the Cleveland Cavaliers face Scottie Barnes and the Toronto Raptors in Game 1 of their 2026 NBA Playoffs first-round series on Prime.<\/p>\n \u00a0Toronto:<\/p>\n PG Jamal Shead (6.6 ppg, 5.4 ast, +2.8) Cleveland:<\/p>\n PG James Harden (23.6 ppg, 8.0 ast) The Raptors won the season series over the Cavaliers 3-0, with a double-digit margin of victory in each game. All three occurred before the Cavaliers acquired James Harden.<\/p>\n APRIL 17, 2026 \/ 12:00 ET<\/p>\n Today\u2019s injury report<\/p>\n Immanuel Quickley is out for the Raptors. Thomas Bryant is out for the Cavaliers.<\/p>\n Jock Landale is out for the Hawks.<\/p>\n Anthony Edwards is questionable for the Timberwolves, as is Spencer Jones.<\/p>\n Kevin Durant is questionable for the Rockets. Luka Don\u010di\u0107 and Austin Reaves remain out for the Lakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brandon Ingram and the Raptors face the Cavaliers in Game 1 of their 2026 NBA Playoffs series at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[88928,7,88146,70289,6,11,72187,88930,88929],"class_list":{"0":"post-713299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-playoffs","8":"tag-2026-nba-playoffs-begin-today","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-hawks-knicks","11":"tag-lakers-rockets","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-playoffs","14":"tag-nba-com-live-blog","15":"tag-nuggets-timberwolves","16":"tag-raptors-cavaliers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116426631106505744","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713299","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=713299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nKevin Durant and LeBron James lead the Rockets and Lakers. Durant is 9-5 against James in the NBA Playoffs.
\nThe team that wins Game 1 in the NBA Playoffs has gone on to win the series 77.8% of the time.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2248740462.jpg\")
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\nSG RJ Barrett (19.1 ppg, 49.1 FG%)
\nSF Brandon Ingram (21.5 ppg, 38.2% on 4.6 3PA)
\nPF Scottie Barnes (18.1 ppg, 7.5 reb, 5.6 ast)
\nC Jakob Poetl (10.7 ppg, 7.0 reb)<\/p>\n
\nSG Donovan Mitchell (27.9 ppg, 5.7 ast)
\nSF Dean Wade (5.8 ppg, 36.2% on 3.3 3PA)
\nPF Evan Mobley (18.2 ppg, 9.0 reb, 1.7 blk)
\nC Jarrett Allen (15.4 ppg, 8.5 reb)<\/p>\n