US EditionHeat headed back to the play-in tournament for a 4th consecutive season
The loss left Miami unable to finish in the East’s top six, and the Heat will enter the play-in for a fourth straight season.
- On Tuesday, the Miami Heat lost 121-95 to the Toronto Raptors, sealing their fate in the play-in tournament and guaranteeing they cannot finish in the top six of the Eastern Conference.
- Miami is entering the play-in tournament for a fourth consecutive year, tying the most of any team, with the tournament running from April 14 through April 17.
- "We're disappointed, for sure, that we weren't able to bring another level of competitive spirit to this," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said after the loss, while captain Bam Adebayo had previously stated, "We're better than being in the play-in."
- Historically, Miami has successfully navigated the play-in, notably using the tournament as a springboard for a 2023 NBA Finals run where they fell to Denver in five games.
- Tournament rules require teams seeded 9-10 to win two games to advance, while those seeded 7-8 get two chances to escape, with the regular season concluding Sunday.
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NBA: Heat headed back to play-in for 4th consecutive season
If the Miami Heat are going to find their way back to the NBA playoffs, they’ll have to survive the play-in tournament. Again. They didn’t want to go back there, and weren’t afraid to say so — “we’re better than being in the play-in,” Heat captain Bam Adebayo said a few weeks ago — but the Heat fate became sealed Tuesday night in a 121-95 loss to the Toronto Raptors. That guaranteed that Miami cannot finish in the top six in the Eastern Conferen…
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Heat officially lock themselves into play-in, again
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: The Miami Heat will officially be in the play-in. OK, I see that I have been stopped. But that’s because the Heat have now officially clinched a play-in berth for the fourth-straight year as a result of their 121-95 loss to the Toronto Raptors. As a result, they […] The post Heat officially lock themselves into play-in, again appeared first on Hot Hot Hoops - Miami HEAT NBA Blog.
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