{"id":600795,"date":"2026-04-11T21:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T21:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/600795\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T21:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T21:33:09","slug":"10-of-the-20-postseason-teams-have-yet-to-clinch-their-seed-with-1-game-day-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/600795\/","title":{"rendered":"10 of the 20 postseason teams have yet to clinch their seed with 1 game day left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2155926\" class=\"wp-image-2155926 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Playoffs-Picture-2026-Template-Results-4-10-26-16x9-YTThumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2155926\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here\u2019s how the postseason bracket would look if the season ended today.<\/p>\n<p>The final week of the 2025-26 regular season is here, and 10 seeds are still up for grabs with one game day left.<\/p>\n<p>Here were the complete postseason seeding possibilities before games on April 10:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Three teams are contending for one automatic playoff spot (top six) in the East. Here\u2019s how each can clinch:<\/p>\n<p>\u25aa\ufe0fToronto: with a win OR losses by Orlando AND Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>\u25aa\ufe0fOrlando: with a win AND a Toronto loss.<\/p>\n<p>\u25aa\ufe0fPhiladelphia: with a win AND losses by Toronto AND Orlando. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0Ov4tn3tik\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/0Ov4tn3tik<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA Communications (@NBAPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAPR\/status\/2042995404296347857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 11, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">East:<\/p>\n<p>\u25aa\ufe0f 6 spots still undetermined<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0f TOR, ORL, PHI battling for final automatic playoff spot<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0f ATL can finish in 5 or 6 spot<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0f TOR can finish any spot 5-8<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0f ORL can finish any spot 6-8<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0f PHI can finish any spot 6-8<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0f CHA can finish in 9 or 10 spot<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0f MIA can finish in 9\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/flD01Xglqc\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/flD01Xglqc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/2043000089237467542?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 11, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The postseason tips off with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/playoffs\/2026\/play-in-tournament\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SoFi Play-In Tournament<\/a> on Tuesday, April 14, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/playoffs\/2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 NBA Playoffs<\/a> begin on Saturday, April 18.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s how the postseason bracket would look if the season ended today. The final week of the 2025-26&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,292844,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-600795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-nba-playoff-seeds","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600795","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=600795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}