{"id":167350,"date":"2026-04-16T08:47:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T08:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/167350\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T08:47:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T08:47:21","slug":"boston-celtics-to-play-philadelphia-76ers-in-opening-round-of-nba-playoffs-heres-the-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/167350\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Celtics to play Philadelphia 76ers in opening round of NBA playoffs. Here&#8217;s the schedule."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Celtics will play the Philadelphia 76ers in the opening round of the Eastern Conference playoffs. The Celtics opponent was finalized when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/sixers-vs-magic-nba-play-in-tournament-celtics\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">76ers beat the Orlando Magic<\/a> in the play-in game Wednesday night 109-97.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The No. 2 seed Celtics will open the best-of-seven series against the No. 7 seed 76ers Sunday afternoon at TD Garden in Boston.<\/p>\n<p>Celtics NBA playoff schedule<\/p>\n<p>Game 1: 76ers at Celtics, Sunday, April 19, 1 p.m. at TD Garden<br \/>Game 2: 76ers at Celtics, Tuesday, April 21, 7 p.m. at TD Garden<br \/>Game 3: Celtics at 76ers, Friday, April 24, 7 p.m. at Xfinity Mobile Arena<br \/>Game 4: Celtics at 76ers, Sunday, April 26, 7 p.m. at Xfinity Mobile Arena<br \/>Game 5: 76ers at Celtics, Tuesday, April 28, TBD at TD Garden*<br \/>Game 6: Celtics at 76ers, Thursday, April 30, TBD at Xfinity Mobile Arena*  <br \/>Game 7: 76ers at Celtics, Saturday, May 2, TBD at TD Garden*<\/p>\n<p>*If necessary \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Celtics vs. 76ers<\/p>\n<p>Boston and Philadelphia split four games this year, with three of the games decided by one basket.<\/p>\n<p>The 76ers won the season-opener by one point, then topped Boston in November by two points. On Halloween, the Celtics earned a 109-108 win of their own, then comfortably won the final matchup on March 1 by a 114-98 margin. <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Celtics will play the Philadelphia 76ers in the opening round of the Eastern Conference playoffs. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9512,68899,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-167350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-boston-celtics","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167350","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=167350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}