{"id":543074,"date":"2026-03-24T21:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/543074\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T21:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:40:12","slug":"trail-blazers-clinch-play-in-spot-after-134-99-rout-of-nets-return-to-postseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/543074\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Blazers clinch play-in spot after 134-99 rout of Nets, return to postseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 The Portland Trail Blazers are headed back to the postseason for the first time in four years.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE | <a href=\"https:\/\/katu.com\/sports\/trail-blazers\/camara-posts-career-highs-of-9-3-pointers-35-points-as-trail-blazers-beat-nets-134-99\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Camara posts career highs of 9 3-pointers, 35 points as Trail Blazers beat Nets 134-99<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following their 134-99 victory over Brooklyn, Portland is guaranteed a spot in the play-in tournament.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the first time Portland has made it to the postseason since the 2020-2021 season in which they lost the first round to Denver.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the play-in tournament are now on sale on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/blazers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trail Blazer\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Portland is a half game out of the eighth spot and four-and-a-half games out of the seventh spot.<\/p>\n<p>The Blazers have nine regular-season games left on the schedule. Portland will play six of the nine at Moda Center. They will end the regular season against the Sacramento Kings on Sunday, April 12.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (1)<\/p>\n<p>You can catch all the games on our sister station, KUNP. Following the game, join Danny Marang and Joe Simons for the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLFtHM_AbvnEUh_MslHP8KsOouCXkZweXe&amp;si=uLD4a6be25Mkn9F0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RipCity Wrap Up<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 The Portland Trail Blazers are headed back to the postseason for the first time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-543074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}