{"id":731972,"date":"2026-04-16T11:16:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T11:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/731972\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:16:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T11:16:23","slug":"suns-warriors-play-in-matchup-set-arizona-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/731972\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns-Warriors play-in matchup set &#8211; Arizona Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA Play-In Tournament matchup between the Phoenix Suns and Golden State Warriors for the eighth seed is set for Friday at Mortgage Matchup Center.<\/p>\n<p>Should the Suns beat the Warriors, they would play the No. 1 seed Oklahoma City Thunder in <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NBAPR\/status\/2043523642349256986?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the first round<\/a> of the NBA playoffs Sunday on the road. The series schedule would go as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Game 1: No. 8 seed at Thunder (Sunday\/12:30 p.m. MST\/ABC)<\/li>\n<li>Game 2: No. 8 seed at Thunder (April 22\/6:30 p.m. MST\/ESPN)<\/li>\n<li>Game 3: Thunder at No. 8 seed (April 25\/12:30 p.m. MST\/NBC)<\/li>\n<li>Game 4: Thunder at No. 8 seed (April 27\/TBD\/TBD)<\/li>\n<li>Game 5 (if necessary): No. 8 seed at Thunder (April 29\/TBD\/TBD)<\/li>\n<li>Game 6 (if necessary): Thunder at No. 8 seed\u00a0(May 1\/TBD\/TBD)<\/li>\n<li>Game 7 (if necessary): No. 8 seed at Thunder (May 3\/TBD\/TBD)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Suns look to rebound and clinch a spot in the first round of the playoffs after<a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/nba\/phoenix-suns\/trail-blazers-play-in-2\/3617874\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> losing<\/a> to the Portland Trail Blazers 114-110 in the play-in game for the seventh seed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix is hoping to avoid becoming the first team since the Play-In Tournament started to finish the regular season in the No. 7 spot and lose both home games to miss the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 10 Golden State Warriors beat the No. 9 Los Angeles Clippers 126-121 in the second Western Conference NBA play-in game on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Curry was excellent for Golden State with 35 points on 7-for-12 3-point shooting. He led the Warriors back after they were down as much as 13 points, with L.A. having led for 87% of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Curry dished to Al Horford for a 3 that gave Golden State the lead with 2:12 left, adding one from deep himself on the next possession to break a 117-all tie. His free throw with 32.5 seconds left made it a seven-point game to put it out of reach.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors won the regular season series 3-1 over the Suns.<\/p>\n<p>The win-or-go-home game, which will be streamed on Prime Video, will tip off at 7 p.m. MST.<\/p>\n<p>Catch tip-off on 98.7, the Arizona Sports app or online, with pregame coverage starting at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Leasure96\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @Leasure96<\/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 NBA Play-In Tournament matchup between the Phoenix Suns and Golden State Warriors for the eighth seed is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":731973,"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-731972","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\/116414106508489386","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731972","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=731972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}