{"id":120573,"date":"2026-05-14T09:19:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/how-momentum-shifts-decide-nba-playoff-outcomes\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T09:19:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:19:32","slug":"how-momentum-shifts-decide-nba-playoff-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/how-momentum-shifts-decide-nba-playoff-outcomes\/","title":{"rendered":"How Momentum Shifts Decide NBA Playoff Outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><br \/>\nNBA playoff games rarely turn on one shot alone. More often, the game bends during a three-minute stretch: a bench unit runs, a star gets two free throws, or one defender breaks up a pass in the final minute. Live reads start before the fourth quarter Anyone following playoff basketball in real time has to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/218201-how-momentum-shifts-decide-nba-playoff-outcomes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How Momentum Shifts Decide NBA Playoff Outcomes<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TalkBasket.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/218201-how-momentum-shifts-decide-nba-playoff-outcomes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBA playoff games rarely turn on one shot alone. More often, the game bends during a three-minute stretch: a bench unit runs, a star gets two free throws, or one defender breaks up a pass in the final minute. Live reads start before the fourth quarter Anyone following playoff basketball in real time has to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":120574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}