{"id":586105,"date":"2026-04-15T17:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/586105\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T17:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:30:08","slug":"okc-thunder-release-schedule-for-first-round-of-nba-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/586105\/","title":{"rendered":"OKC Thunder release schedule for first round of NBA Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OKLAHOMA CITY (KOKH) \u2014 As the Oklahoma City Thunder wait to see who their opponent will be in the first round of the NBA Playoffs, Thunder fans are gearing up for another run at the NBA Championship title. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/thunder\/playoffscentral?utm_id=97758_v0_s00_e0_tv2_a1demonlbtq62z&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawRMaQlleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF0TlE4anU3WVhOWklZZHI3c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHmCFww_cSH1BUezd03te44jVh91XV1fxax1KmPC4vnAc7TjJzYYDdK1FwGoR_aem_hZsXMj_TB8_rClnWK63x6Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Oklahoma City Thunder <\/a>will face the No. 8 seed in the Western Conference for the first round of the Playoffs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/okcfox.com\/sports\/oklahoma-city-thunder\/weve-got-to-go-earn-what-we-get-thunder-prepping-for-game-1-nba-playoffs-okc-oklahoma-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SEE MORE: &#8220;We&#8217;ve got to go earn what we get,&#8221; Thunder prepping for Game 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fans now can prepare for the next several games as the schedule has been released.<\/p>\n<p>Game 1 will be played Sunday, April 19 at 2:30 p.m. and will air on ABC.<\/p>\n<p>Game 2 will be played Wednesday, April 22 at 8:30 p.m. and will air on ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Game 3 will be played Saturday, April 25 at 2:30 p.m. and will air on NBC.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, Game 4 is set for Monday, April 27 but no other details have been released. <\/p>\n<p>Games 1 and 2 will be played in Oklahoma City at the Paycom Center, while Games 3 and 4 will be away games. <\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>According to the NBA, this Thunder team is just the 6th team since 1983 to finish as the as top seed in three consecutive seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OKLAHOMA CITY (KOKH) \u2014 As the Oklahoma City Thunder wait to see who their opponent will be in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-586105","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\/586105","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=586105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}