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Liam McKeone

NBA Playoff Tracker: Thunder Become First Team to Punch Their Ticket to Postseason

The 2025–26 NBA season is coming to a close, with the final day of the regular season set for Apr. 12.

It’s been a fun year filled with plenty of great (even historic) performances and enjoyable highlights aplenty. But this is the time of year where fans, teams and players all look forward to the intensity getting kicked up a notch in the playoffs. The NBA postseason will unofficially begin on Apr. 14 starting with the play-in tournament. Then, on Apr. 18, the playoffs tip off in full as every contending team goes to war for the right to raise the Larry O’Brien Trophy in June.

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