{"id":729137,"date":"2026-04-15T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/729137\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T07:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:00:33","slug":"suns-defeated-by-trail-blazers-in-play-in-tournament-what-comes-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/729137\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns defeated by Trail Blazers in play-in tournament; what comes next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Phoenix Suns failed to secure the seventh seed in the NBA playoffs with a play-in tournament loss to the Portland Trail Blazers on Tuesday, 114-110.<\/p>\n<p>Deni Avdija led Portland with 41 points, while Jalen Green missed the potential go-ahead shot in the final 10 seconds. Green led Phoenix with 35 points.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns will have to play a win-or-go-home game against either the Los Angeles Clippers or Golden State Warriors on Friday at Mortgage Matchup Center for the right to be the eighth seed.<\/p>\n<p>Portland clinched the seventh seed and a matchup with the 62-win San Antonio Spurs in the opening round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns entered the play-in tournament as the seventh seed at 45-37, needing one win at home to secure a spot in the playoff bracket.<\/p>\n<p>If Phoenix clinches the eighth seed on Friday, it will take on the defending-champion Oklahoma City Thunder in the first round of the playoffs. Game 1 would be Sunday at 12:30 p.m. MST.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns were among the top seven seeds in the Western Conference all year, exceeding preseason expectations. If the Suns lose on Friday, however, they will miss playing in a playoff series for the second straight year.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix went 2-2 against the Clippers and 1-3 against the Warriors during the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s game will start at 7 p.m. MST.<\/p>\n<p>More postgame coverage to follow on 98.7 and ArizonaSports.com.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexjweiner\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @alexjweiner<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phoenix Suns failed to secure the seventh seed in the NBA playoffs with a play-in tournament loss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":729138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-729137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116407438495681824","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}