{"id":120114,"date":"2026-05-31T04:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T08:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/lnb-the-teams-and-positions-for-the-playoffs-defined-this-friday\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T04:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T08:59:08","slug":"lnb-the-teams-and-positions-for-the-playoffs-defined-this-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/lnb-the-teams-and-positions-for-the-playoffs-defined-this-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"LNB: The teams and positions for the playoffs defined this Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Crossings Defined: LNB&#8217;s Final Day Defines Positions<\/h2>\n\nSanto Domingo \u2013 The regular season of the Super League of the National Basketball League (LNB) comes to an end this Friday, with two crucial games that will determine the final positions and the teams that will advance to the elimination phase of the tournament.\n\nThe day presents key matchups between Reales and Metros in Santiago, and Titanes against H\u00e9roes in Moca. The standings are extremely close, promising emotions and definitions until the last moment.\n\nThe results of these matches could trigger multiple tie scenarios among the teams, forcing the application of tie-breaking criteria such as head-to-head records and point difference.\n\n<h2>Possible Scenarios and Tie-breaking Criteria<\/h2>\n\nIf Metros and H\u00e9roes achieve victory, Metros and Gigantes would finish tied with a 12-4 record, while H\u00e9roes would secure third place with 10-6. Marineros, Ca\u00f1eros, and Reales would be tied with 8-8, with their positions being defined by point difference.\n\n\n<p>In case of victories by Titanes and Reales, Gigantes would finish first with 12-4, followed by Metros with 11-5. Reales and H\u00e9roes would tie with 9-7, favoring Reales in the tiebreaker. Additionally, there would be a three-way tie between Titanes, Ca\u00f1eros and Marineros with 8-8, where Titanes would have the advantage.<\/p>\n\n\nA combination of Metros and Titans victories would lead Metros to first place with 12-4, and Giants second with the same record. Heroes would be third with 9-7, while Titans, Caneros, Reales and Mariners would tie with 8-8, defining positions by particular results and point difference.\n\nIf Heroes and Royals win, Giants would finish leaders with 12-4, followed by Mets (11-5), Heroes (10-6) and Royals (9-7). In this scenario, Titans would be eliminated with a 7-9 record.\n\nThe LNB has confirmed that, regardless of the results, Metros, Gigantes, H\u00e9roes, Ca\u00f1eros and Reales already have their pass secured to the next round.\n\nThe elimination phase will begin this Sunday with a tripleheader at the venues of the three teams with the best regular season records.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crossings Defined: LNB&#8217;s Final Day Defines Positions Santo Domingo \u2013 The regular season of the Super League of the National Basketball League (LNB) comes to an end this Friday, with two crucial games that will determine the final positions and the teams that will advance to the elimination phase of the tournament. The day presents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":120115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[389,8312,12653,10054],"class_list":{"0":"post-120114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-classification","10":"tag-elimination","11":"tag-national-league"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}