{"id":90998,"date":"2026-05-05T19:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/lakers-vs-thunder-live-updates-2026-nba-playoffs-game-1-start-time-picks-and-predictions\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T19:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:12:11","slug":"lakers-vs-thunder-live-updates-2026-nba-playoffs-game-1-start-time-picks-and-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/lakers-vs-thunder-live-updates-2026-nba-playoffs-game-1-start-time-picks-and-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers vs. Thunder live updates: 2026 NBA playoffs Game 1 start time, picks and predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"liveblog-post-content\">\n<p><strong>Hello, basketball fans!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to <em><strong>The Athletic<\/strong><\/em>\u2019s coverage of Game 1 of this Western Conference second-round series as the reigning NBA champions, the Oklahoma City Thunder, host <strong>LeBron James<\/strong> and the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n<p>OKC wasted little time advancing to the second round with a sweep of the Phoenix Suns, while Los Angeles made its fans sweat a bit \u2014 going up 3-0 against the Houston Rockets before eventually winning the series in six games.<\/p>\n<p>Follow along from now through the final buzzer and beyond for the latest news, analysis, reaction, play-by-play and more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, basketball fans! Welcome to The Athletic\u2019s coverage of Game 1 of this Western Conference second-round series as the reigning NBA champions, the Oklahoma City Thunder, host LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers. OKC wasted little time advancing to the second round with a sweep of the Phoenix Suns, while Los Angeles made its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_daextam_enable_autolinks":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football-transfers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MzERdhjXiv2E_jFCvilDsyVNw_1440x960.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}