{"id":166151,"date":"2020-08-13T09:14:10","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T07:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=166151"},"modified":"2020-08-13T09:14:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T07:14:10","slug":"nba-playoff-matchups-set-except-wests-8th-seed-still-in-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-playoff-matchups-set-except-wests-8th-seed-still-in-air\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA playoff matchups set except West&#8217;s 8th seed still in air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NBA playoff matchups are set except West&#8217;s 8th seed that is still in the air.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/29650594\/nba-playoff-matchups-all-set-top-seeded-lakers-opponent\">Per ESPN<\/a>, All the postseason matchups in both conferences were set following Wednesday&#8217;s games with the exception of who will face the West&#8217;s top-seeded Los Angeles Lakers in the first round. The Portland Trail Blazers (34-39), Memphis Grizzlies (33-39), Phoenix Suns (33-39) and San Antonio Spurs (32-38) all still have a chance to compete in the play-in series to determine the eighth spot in the West entering Thursday&#8217;s pivotal slate of games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Western Conference:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Clippers vs Dallas Mavericks<\/p>\n<p>Denver Nuggets vs Utah Jazz<\/p>\n<p>Houston Rockets vs Oklahoma City Thunder<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eastern Conference:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee Bucks vs Orlando Magic<\/p>\n<p>Boston Celtics vs Philadelphia 76ers<\/p>\n<p>Miami Heat vs Indiana Pacers<\/p>\n<p>Toronto Raptors vs Brooklyn Nets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBA playoff matchups all set except for top-seeded Lakers&#8217; opponent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[14679],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-166151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-nba-playoffs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166151"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=166151"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=166151"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=166151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}