{"id":616034,"date":"2026-04-18T23:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T23:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/616034\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T23:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T23:54:15","slug":"nba-playoffs-game-1-score-news-and-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/616034\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Playoffs Game 1 score, news and highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Knicks open the NBA playoffs at home against the Hawks for Game 1 on Saturday at 6 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta enters the playoffs as <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/14\/sports\/knicks-facing-much-tougher-hawks-who-have-thrived-since-trae-young-trade\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one of the NBA\u2019s hottest teams<\/a> with the third-best winning percentage (.769) since the All-Star break and is led by star forward Jalen Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Even without Trae Young, Atlanta has proven itself a worthy foe, putting Jalen Brunson and the Knicks on upset alert.<\/p>\n<p>Will the Knicks get off to a good series start? Or will the streaking Hawks be too much to handle?<\/p>\n<p>Follow The Post\u2019s live updates for the latest 2026 NBA playoffs news, scores and highlights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Knicks open the NBA playoffs at home against the Hawks for Game 1 on Saturday at 6&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[7218,64,63,590,13799,288644,1666,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-616034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-atlanta-hawks","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-nba-playoffs","13":"tag-nba-playoffs-2026","14":"tag-new-york-knicks","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616034","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=616034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}