either Philadelphia or Orlando<\/a> for Games 3 and 4 next Friday and Sunday, pending the outcome of Wednesday night\u2019s 7 vs. 8 play-in game.<\/p>\nIf necessary, the Celtics would host Game 5 on Tuesday, April 28, visit the 76ers\/Magic for Game 6 on Thursday, April 30, and host Game 7 on Saturday, May 2.<\/p>\n
Here is the full series schedule:<\/p>\n
Game 1: Sunday, April 19 at Boston (1 p.m.; ABC)
Game 2: Tuesday, April 21 at Boston (7 p.m.; Peacock)
Game 3: Friday, April 24 at Philadelphia\/Orlando (7 p.m.; Prime Video)
Game 4: Sunday, April 26 at Philadelphia\/Orlando (7 p.m.; NBC)
*Game 5: Tuesday, April 28 at Boston (TBD)
*Game 6: Thursday, April 30 at Philadelphia\/Orlando (TBD)
*Game 7: Saturday, May 2 at Boston (TBD)<\/p>\n
*If necessary<\/p>\n
The Sunday start date gives Joe Mazzulla\u2019s club a six-day break between the end of the regular season and the playoffs, during which the team is scheduled to hold three practices.<\/p>\n
The loser of Wednesday\u2019s play-in game will face the ninth-place Charlotte Hornets in a winner-take-all matchup for the No. 8 seed. Charlotte defeated the Miami Heat 127-126 in overtime Tuesday in the opening game of the play-in tournament.<\/p>\n
Whichever team emerges from that game will meet the top-seeded Detroit Pistons in the opening round. The No. 3 New York Knicks will face the No. 6 Atlanta Hawks, and the No. 4 Cleveland Cavaliers will match up against the No. 5 Toronto Raptors.<\/p>\n
Out West, three first-round matchups are set: No. 2 San Antonio vs. No. 7 Portland, No. 3 Denver vs. No. 6 Minnesota and No. 4 Los Angeles Lakers vs. No. 5 Houston. The No. 1 seed Oklahoma City Thunder will see whichever of Phoenix, Golden State or the Los Angeles Clippers emerges from the final play-in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA on Wednesday released the full schedule for the Celtics\u2019 upcoming first-round playoff series. Boston, the No.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[9806,5817,102795,104040,104039,92028,104041,139,141,140],"class_list":{"0":"post-232881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-boston-celtics","9":"tag-celtics","10":"tag-celtics-playoffs","11":"tag-celtics-playoffs-schedule","12":"tag-celtics-schedule","13":"tag-nba-playoffs","14":"tag-nba-playoffs-schedule","15":"tag-orlando","16":"tag-orlando-headlines","17":"tag-orlando-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}