{"id":627896,"date":"2023-04-10T23:56:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T04:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/10\/2023-nba-play-in-tournament-expert-picks-predictions-hawks-heat-timberwolves-lakers-on-tuesday-cbs-sports\/"},"modified":"2023-04-10T23:56:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T04:56:00","slug":"2023-nba-play-in-tournament-expert-picks-predictions-hawks-heat-timberwolves-lakers-on-tuesday-cbs-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/10\/2023-nba-play-in-tournament-expert-picks-predictions-hawks-heat-timberwolves-lakers-on-tuesday-cbs-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 NBA play-in tournament expert picks, predictions: Hawks-Heat, Timberwolves-Lakers on Tuesday – CBS Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 2022-23 regular season has come to a close and four of the eight first-round matchups are set. The other four, of course, will be decided by the play-in tournament as the top two seeds in each conference (Denver Nuggets<\/a> and Memphis Grizzlies<\/a> in the West, Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> and Boston Celtics<\/a> in the East) wait to see who they’ll draw. <\/p>\n

Reminder how the play-in works: No. 7 plays No. 8 and No. 9 plays No. 10. The winner of the 7-8 game gets the No. 7 seed, while the loser plays the winner of the 9-10 game for the No. 8 seed. <\/p>\n

Below you’ll find our staff’s picks for the first round of play-in games as well as the elimination game for the No. 8 seed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

No. 7 Miami Heat<\/a> vs. No. 8 Atlanta Hawks<\/a><\/h2>\n

Date:<\/strong>\u00a0Tuesday, April 11 |\u00a0Time:<\/strong>\u00a07:30 p.m. ET |\u00a0TV and live stream:<\/strong>\u00a0TNT \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Featured Game<\/span> |<\/span> Miami Heat vs. Atlanta Hawks\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Powered\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

No. 7 Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> vs. No. 8 Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a><\/h2>\n

Date:<\/strong>\u00a0Tuesday, April 11 |\u00a0Time:<\/strong>\u00a010 p.m. ET |\u00a0TV and live stream:<\/strong>\u00a0TNT<\/p>\n

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Featured Game<\/span> |<\/span> Los Angeles Lakers vs. Minnesota Timberwolves\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Powered\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

No. 9 Toronto Raptors<\/a> vs. No. 10 Chicago Bulls<\/a><\/h2>\n

Date:<\/strong>\u00a0Wednesday, April 12 |\u00a0Time:<\/strong>\u00a07 p.m. ET |\u00a0TV and live stream:<\/strong>\u00a0ESPN<\/p>\n

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Featured Game<\/span> |<\/span> Toronto Raptors vs. Chicago Bulls\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Powered\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

No. 9 New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> vs. No. 10 Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a><\/h2>\n

Date:<\/strong>\u00a0Wednesday, April 12 |\u00a0Time:<\/strong>\u00a09:30 p.m. ET |\u00a0TV and live stream:<\/strong>\u00a0ESPN \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Featured Game<\/span> |<\/span> New Orleans Pelicans vs. Oklahoma City Thunder\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Powered\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

No. 8 seed play-in game (East)<\/h2>\n

Bill Reiter:<\/strong>\u00a0Bulls over Hawks<\/p>\n

Brad Botkin:<\/strong>\u00a0Hawks over Raptors<\/p>\n

James Herbert:<\/strong>\u00a0Hawks over Raptors<\/p>\n

Colin Ward-Henninger:\u00a0<\/strong>Raptors over Hawks<\/p>\n

Sam Quinn:<\/strong>\u00a0Heat over Raptors<\/p>\n

Jasmyn Wimbish:<\/strong>\u00a0Hawks over Bulls<\/p>\n

Jack Maloney:<\/strong>\u00a0Bulls over Hawks<\/p>\n

Michael Kaskey-Blomain:<\/strong>\u00a0Hawks over Bulls<\/p>\n

No. 8 seed play-in game (West)<\/h2>\n

Bill Reiter:<\/strong>\u00a0Timberwolves over Thunder<\/p>\n

Brad Botkin:<\/strong>\u00a0Pelicans over Timberwolves<\/p>\n

James Herbert:<\/strong>\u00a0Timberwolves over Thunder<\/p>\n

Colin Ward-Henninger:\u00a0<\/strong>Pelicans over Timberwolves<\/p>\n

Sam Quinn:<\/strong>\u00a0Thunder over Timberwolves<\/p>\n

Jasmyn Wimbish:\u00a0<\/strong>Thunder over Timberwolves<\/p>\n

Jack Maloney:<\/strong>\u00a0Pelicans over Timberwolves<\/p>\n

Michael Kaskey-Blomain:<\/strong>\u00a0Timberwolves over Thunder<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n Joan Fetzer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 2022-23 regular season has come to a close and four of the eight first-round matchups are set. The other four, of course, will be decided by the play-in tournament as the top two seeds in each conference (Denver Nuggets and Memphis Grizzlies in the West, Milwaukee Bucks and Boston Celtics in the East) wait […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":627897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[534,61678,23486],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-financial","category-play-in","category-tournament"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}