{"id":437985,"date":"2025-04-14T00:39:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T22:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=437985"},"modified":"2025-04-14T00:39:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T22:39:16","slug":"let-the-games-begin-2025-nba-playoffs-bracket-is-locked-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/let-the-games-begin-2025-nba-playoffs-bracket-is-locked-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Let the Games Begin: 2025 NBA Playoffs Bracket is Locked In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"87\" data-end=\"273\">The NBA postseason bracket is set. Here are the matchups for the 2025 NBA Playoffs (starting April 19) and the SoFi NBA Play-In Tournament (starting April 15), both in the East and West.<\/p>\n<p>(1) Oklahoma City Thunder vs. (8) Play-In Winner<\/p>\n<p>(2) Houston Rockets vs. (7) Play-In Winner<\/p>\n<p>(3) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (6) Minnesota Timberwolves<\/p>\n<p>(4) Denver Nuggets vs. (5) LA Clippers<\/p>\n<p><b>Eastern Conference<\/b><\/p>\n<p>(1) Cleveland Cavaliers vs. (8) Play-In Winner<\/p>\n<p>(2) Boston Celtics vs. (7) Play-In Winner<\/p>\n<p>(3) New York Knicks vs. (6) Detroit Pistons<\/p>\n<p>(4) Indiana Pacers vs. (5) Milwaukee Bucks<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>SoFi NBA Play-In Tournament<\/h2>\n<p><b>Western Conference<\/b><\/p>\n<p>(7) Golden State Warriors vs. (8) Memphis Grizzlies<\/p>\n<p>(9) Sacramento Kings vs. (10) Dallas Mavericks<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eastern Conference<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(7) Orlando Magic vs. (8) Atlanta Hawks<\/p>\n<p>(9) Chicago Bulls vs. (10) Miami Heat<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">THE BRACKET IS SET \ud83c\udf7f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xZBRkF7LT7\">pic.twitter.com\/xZBRkF7LT7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1911548484253335697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 13, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA postseason bracket is set. Here are the matchups for the 2025 NBA Playoffs (starting April 19) and the SoFi NBA Play-In Tournament (starting April 15)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":437984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-437985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/04\/GocvIxQWMAA4Zl8.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437985","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437985"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=437985"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=437985"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=437985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}