{"id":292984,"date":"2023-05-04T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=292984"},"modified":"2023-05-04T12:58:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T12:58:10","slug":"whats-the-farthest-a-no-8-seed-has-ever-advanced-in-the-nba-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=292984","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the farthest a No. 8 seed has ever advanced in the NBA Playoffs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A No. 7 seed has never reached the NBA Finals but there has been one No. 8 seed to pull it off. In 1998-99, the New York Knicks did the unthinkable. This season, the Miami Heat became just the fifth No. 8 seed to defeat a No. 1 seed in the NBA Playoffs. Now, they [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/fansided.com\/2023\/05\/04\/nba-playoffs-farthest-8-seed-ever\/\">What\u2019s the farthest a No. 8 seed has ever advanced in the NBA Playoffs?<\/a> &#8211; <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/fansided.com\">FanSided<\/a> &#8211; <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/fansided.com\">FanSided &#8211; Sports News, Entertainment, Lifestyle &amp; Technology &#8211; 300+ Sites<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A No. 7 seed has never reached the NBA Finals but there has been one No. 8 seed to pull it off. In 1998-99, the New York Knicks did the unthinkable. This season, the Miami Heat became just the fifth No. 8 seed to defeat a No. 1 seed in the NBA Playoffs. Now, they [\u2026]<br \/>\nWhat\u2019s the farthest a No. 8 seed has ever advanced in the NBA Playoffs? &#8211; FanSided &#8211; FanSided &#8211; Sports News, Entertainment, Lifestyle &amp; Technology &#8211; 300+ Sites<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292986,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292984\/revisions\/292986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}