{"id":523294,"date":"2010-04-11T13:53:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T17:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/my.lakers.com\/blogs\/?p=16671"},"modified":"2010-04-11T13:53:03","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T17:53:03","slug":"pre-portland-playoff-scenarios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/523294","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Portland Playoff Scenarios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/lakers\/news\/100411_gameday_blazers.html\" >Click here for the Lakers &#8211; Blazers Gameday Preview Page<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>The Lakers have locked up the No. 1 seed in the West, but can still play a crucial role in determining whom they&#8217;ll face in the first round of the playoffs in Sunday&#8217;s game against the Portland Trail Blazers.<\/p>\n<p>A week ago, the Blazers looked to have an edge on both the Oklahoma City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs to stay out of No. 8, but a Friday evening home loss to Dallas in particular has put Portland in danger of facing the Lakers in the second season.<\/p>\n<p>Below are the current standings, with team records and final three opponents:<\/p>\n<p>6) Oklahoma City (49-30); @GS, @ POR, MEM<br \/>\n7) San Antonio (49-31); MIN, @DAL<br \/>\n8) Portland (48-31); @LAL, OKC, GS<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio owns the tiebreaker over Oklahoma City but Portland has it over the Spurs, while the Portland &#8211; O.K.C. breaker won&#8217;t be determined until the two teams face off on Monday, April 12. As such, if the Thunder manage to win on the road, they&#8217;ll possess the tiebreak due to division win percentages, but if Portland wins, they would claim the honors due to a 3-1 season edge.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers, of course, can throw a big wrench into Portland&#8217;s plan to move up to the seven or six spot by beating the Blazers on Sunday, which would put them a game behind San Antonio in the loss column. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here for the Lakers &#8211; Blazers Gameday Preview Page The Lakers have locked up the No. 1 seed in the West, but can still play a crucial role in determining whom they&#8217;ll face in the first round of the playoffs in Sunday&#8217;s game against the Portland Trail Blazers. A week ago, the Blazers looked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}