{"id":438348,"date":"2026-01-26T10:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T10:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/438348\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T10:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T10:15:15","slug":"two-more-teams-clinch-finals-spots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/438348\/","title":{"rendered":"Two more teams clinch Finals spots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sydney Kings and Melbourne United have officially clinched their spots in the Finals following their respective wins on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams moved to 18 wins on the season, locking in their top-six positions alongside the Adelaide 36ers and South East Melbourne Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbl.com.au\/ladder-predictor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PLAY THE MITSUBISHI MOTORS LADDER PREDICTOR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Perth Wildcats have all but secured their Finals spot, sitting six wins clear of the seventh-placed New Zealand Breakers with six games remaining, and percentage the only deciding factor.<\/p>\n<p>The Breakers (10 wins from 27 games) are still in the mix to catch the sixth-placed JackJumpers (12 wins from 28 games), while Illawarra (9 wins from 25 games) have three games in hand on Tasmania and remain very much in the hunt.<\/p>\n<p>Cairns and Brisbane are still mathematically in contention, but it would take something of a miracle to close a significant percentage gap on sixth place and have results fall their way.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/696810544c3525aaec836c13_Disney+_1920x250_V1.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sydney Kings and Melbourne United have officially clinched their spots in the Finals following their respective wins&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-438348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}