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While all three teams needed wins, most of the pressure fell on the Heat. With the Pacers and Bulls both taking care of business in their respective games, Miami would have been eliminated from the playoffs with a loss. It took the Cavaliers (without LeBron James and Kyrie Irving) to overtime and won 124-121 to kept its playoff hopes alive. Continue to Article

April 11, 2017 8:00:am EST

This Miami Heat team never quits. The race for the final two seeds in the Eastern Conference has been anything but boring. On Monday, after the Pacers and Bulls won their respective games, the Heat had to win against Cleveland to stay alive. Continue to Article

April 10, 2017 10:48:pm EST

No matter the score or how impressive the Bulls' end-to-end 122-75 win was over the Orlando Magic, the only thing it clinched was a better point differential, as they are now through 81 games and needing one more to qualify for the NBA Playoffs. It certainly looked pretty, as the sight of another game with double-digit 3-point makes as well as shooting over 50 percent was necessary, along with Dwyane Wade playing another 22 minutes to get himself in a rhythm before the playoffs. If the playoffs happen, because the Miami Heat beat the Cleveland Cavaliers in overtime while the Bulls' game had yet to go final, meaning it could take a win over the Brooklyn Nets Wednesday to clinch a playoff spot. Continue to Article

April 10, 2017 10:27:pm EST

It is this simple: If the Chicago Bulls win their final two regular-season games and finish at .500, they will make the playoffs. The Bulls could also reach the postseason if the Miami Heat help them out, but Chicago can make things easy by winning its two remaining contests. Nothing comes easily for the inconsistent Bulls, who keep finding ways to play down to the level of their opposition and lose winnable games. Continue to Article

April 10, 2017 1:58:am EST

With a chance to put themselves in a spot to clinch a playoff spot against a Brooklyn Nets team with nothing to play for, they came up short as they've done so many times this season when opportunity was at their fingertips. When Jimmy Butler's corner jumper came up long with five seconds left, it not only prevented them from getting back to the precious .500 mark, it also put them in a perilous spot of losing control of a playoff spot, falling 107-106 to the talent-deficient but game Nets squad in Dwyane Wade's return from an elbow injury. Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie was cut in Bulls' training camp came back to bite his former team, scoring the final seven points of the game to put the Bulls away in the Nets' final home game of the season. Continue to Article

April 09, 2017 11:41:pm EST