With the season dwindling down and the Miami Heat destined for the No. 5 spot after the Milwaukee Bucks sustained a blow by losing Andrew Bogut for the season and the postseason, the Heat now see themselves in prime position to face the Boston Celtics.
This is going to be harder than it looks.
Currently, the Celtics and Atlanta Hawks are fighting it out for the third spot with the Hawks out front by a game and five games left with road games against Detroit, Washington, and Milwaukee, and home games against Toronto and Cleveland.
The Celtics face Toronto, Milwaukee, and Chicago on the road, with Washington and Milwaukee at home. For the sake of the article, we'll say that Atlanta holds onto the third spot.
This is quite the problem for the Heat, considering they were 3-1 against the Hawks in the regular season and 0-3 against the Celtics. Each Celtics loss stung more than the last one. Boston took both games at the American Airlines Arena, 92-85 and 112-106 in overtime in one of the more heartbreaking losses, and also 107-102 in Boston.
Three losses by a combined 18 points. It hurts to know that not only could the Heat hav ...
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