The LA Clippers<\/a> and Golden State Warriors<\/a> play in the final game of the night. The winner advances to play thePhoenix Suns<\/a>on Friday with the No. 8 seed on the line. ThePortland Trail Blazers<\/a> beat the Suns 114-110 on Tuesday to advance to face the second-seeded San Antonio Spurs<\/a>.<\/p>\n Philadelphia won the season series against Orlando, though the teams haven’t matched up since January and hold identical records (45-37). The Magic were winners of five straight before dropping the final game of the regular season against the Celtics, who were resting key players. The 76ers won back-to-back games to close the season after losing three straight.<\/p>\n In the West, the Warriors-Clippers game pits two former NBA Finals MVPs against each other — Stephen Curry<\/a> and Kawhi Leonard<\/a>. They are the first pair of former Finals MVPs to face off in a play-in game, according to ESPN Research. Leonard averaged a career-high 27.9 points with 6.4 rebounds and 1.9 steals. Curry played in only 43 games because of a knee injury, his lowest since the 2019-20 season, and averaged 26.6 points. The Clippers won the season series 3-1 against the Warriors.<\/p>\n Who will come out victorious Wednesday night? Follow along for live updates and highlights.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA play-in tournament continues Wednesday as four teams look to get one step closer to a playoff…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[75243,1421,29085,20357,4794,11827,69,1002,71,70],"class_list":["post-166974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-75243","tag-espn","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-la-clippers","tag-nba","tag-orlando-magic","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/_end_rule.png\"\/)
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