{"id":731714,"date":"2026-04-16T08:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T08:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/731714\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T08:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T08:43:13","slug":"can-the-phoenix-suns-avoid-elimination-and-secure-the-no-8-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/731714\/","title":{"rendered":"Can the Phoenix Suns avoid elimination and secure the No. 8 seed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kellan Olson and Kevin Zimmerman are back for another episode of Empire of the Suns podcast. The hosts recap the incredibly frustrating matchup against Portland, which perfectly highlighted the Suns&#8217; biggest flaws: a lack of 3-point shooting, zero rim pressure, and defensive breakdowns. In addition, they preview the massive upcoming matchups against the Clippers or Warriors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kellan Olson and Kevin Zimmerman are back for another episode of Empire of the Suns podcast. The hosts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":731715,"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-731714","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\/116413504463662391","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731714","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=731714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}