NBA API - Postseason Clinch Status

We’ve added a postseason_berth enum clinched status to our NBA Rankings endpoint.

This status applies when a team has clinched postseason participation (guaranteed top 10 seed), but has not yet secured either a playoff berth (top 6) or a locked play-in position (7–10).

View our complete list of clinched playoff values to review all supported clinched statuses and update your polling logic, if necessary.

⭐ Benefit

Identify and display all postseason qualification scenarios, including transitional cases between playoff and Play-In qualification, in your NBA standings and rankings.

☑️ Sample Requests:

NBA Rankings

curl --request GET \
     --url https://api.sportradar.com/nba/trial/v8/en/seasons/{season_year}/REG/rankings.json \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY'

🔢 Versions

🔁 Affected Endpoints

Rankings

⚙️ Return Samples

Example of a team (76ers) that has secured a postseason berth, but not yet finalized playoff or play-in seeding:

        <conference id="3960cfac-7361-4b30-bc25-8d393de6f62f" name="EASTERN CONFERENCE" alias="EASTERN">
            <division id="582d6502-9a93-4a8d-8785-69374d732875" name="Atlantic" alias="ATLANTIC">
                <team id="583eccfa-fb46-11e1-82cb-f4ce4684ea4c" name="Celtics" market="Boston" sr_id="sr:team:3422" reference="1610612738">
                    <rank conference="2" division="1" clinched="division_playoff_berth"/>
                </team>
                <team id="583ec70e-fb46-11e1-82cb-f4ce4684ea4c" name="Knicks" market="New York" sr_id="sr:team:3421" reference="1610612752">
                    <rank conference="3" division="2" clinched="playoff_berth"/>
                </team>
                <team id="583ecda6-fb46-11e1-82cb-f4ce4684ea4c" name="Raptors" market="Toronto" sr_id="sr:team:3433" reference="1610612761">
                    <rank conference="5" division="3" clinched="playoff_berth"/>
                </team>
                <team id="583ec87d-fb46-11e1-82cb-f4ce4684ea4c" name="76ers" market="Philadelphia" sr_id="sr:team:3420" reference="1610612755">
                    <rank conference="7" division="4" clinched="postseason_berth"/>
                </team>
                <team id="583ec9d6-fb46-11e1-82cb-f4ce4684ea4c" name="Nets" market="Brooklyn" sr_id="sr:team:3436" reference="1610612751">
                    <rank conference="13" division="5" clinched="eliminated"/>
                </team>
            </division>