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The NBA<\/a> play-in tournament begins Tuesday, with eight teams looking to advance in the NBA playoffs. On Tuesday, the Phoenix Suns<\/a> (7 seed) host the Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> (8), and the Charlotte Hornets<\/a> (9) host the Miami Heat<\/a> (10). On Wednesday, the Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> (7) host the Orlando Magic<\/a> (8), and the Los Angeles Clippers<\/a> (9) host the Golden State Warriors<\/a> (10).<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Wednesday\u2019s Warriors-Clippers game is the most compelling matchup. Steph Curry<\/a>, 38, played 29 minutes in Sunday\u2019s regular-season finale \u2014 the most he\u2019s played since returning from a knee injury. Can Curry and the Warriors get hot and make a run?<\/p>\n Thanks for voting. Be sure to make your voice heard and sound off in the comments section.<\/p>\n This story was originally published by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Apr 13, 2026, where it first appeared in the NBA<\/a> section. Add Athlon Sports as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Editor\u2019s note: Welcome to Athlon Sports\u2019 poll of the day, where we ask readers to weigh in on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[11949,2243,11952,8173,355,13331,11950,2113,6415,6406,99,3781],"class_list":["post-581999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-charlotte-hornets","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-miami-heat","tag-nba","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-orlando-magic","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-sports","tag-steph-curry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581999","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=581999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}