{"id":7790,"date":"2026-04-09T05:33:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/2026-nba-playoff-picture-april-9-clinching-scenarios-and-stakes-for-postseason-contenders-yahoo-sports\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T05:33:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:33:54","slug":"2026-nba-playoff-picture-april-9-clinching-scenarios-and-stakes-for-postseason-contenders-yahoo-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/2026-nba-playoff-picture-april-9-clinching-scenarios-and-stakes-for-postseason-contenders-yahoo-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NBA playoff picture: April 9 clinching scenarios and stakes for postseason contenders &#8211; Yahoo Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi2AFBVV95cUxQSWkzbHFEdnhCaGR6THdoU0JzTmdWWExMdXZ5b3Z4OWpRYnNyYnRMeDFBZi1GbjNXcUVTNzJHU3g2LTZhSmZnN3JZc3pxMGt1bEFvVzM4a0xieTNxNkdNcXBpQmF2eTVtRjFfQ0pkZjJZcU9Edy1wT0ZuOG5RSDRPZTVKc3gyNGwxV29yX1V0aWUxSmZXZ3gwbk9IRll2bWxKY2xIelZmTXIwQVRieDVHTjJTREViYk1kWnNmLUJGVTFua1RvZnl5LUxrUmhMMjRCZ3RSdS1JSks?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">2026 NBA playoff picture: April 9 clinching scenarios and stakes for postseason contenders<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Yahoo Sports<\/font><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi2AFBVV95cUxQSWkzbHFEdnhCaGR6THdoU0JzTmdWWExMdXZ5b3Z4OWpRYnNyYnRMeDFBZi1GbjNXcUVTNzJHU3g2LTZhSmZnN3JZc3pxMGt1bEFvVzM4a0xieTNxNkdNcXBpQmF2eTVtRjFfQ0pkZjJZcU9Edy1wT0ZuOG5RSDRPZTVKc3gyNGwxV29yX1V0aWUxSmZXZ3gwbk9IRll2bWxKY2xIelZmTXIwQVRieDVHTjJTREViYk1kWnNmLUJGVTFua1RvZnl5LUxrUmhMMjRCZ3RSdS1JSks?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026 NBA playoff picture: April 9 clinching scenarios and stakes for postseason contenders&nbsp;&nbsp;Yahoo Sportssource<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}