Trae Young scored 25 factors, Clint Capela grabbed 21 rebounds and the Atlanta Hawks grabbed the No. 7 within the Eastern Conference playoffs by beating the Miami Heat 116-105 in a play-in event recreation Tuesday evening.
Dejounte Murray added 18 factors for the Hawks, who avenged a five-game Round 1 loss to Miami final season and earned an East first-round matchup with Boston that may begin Saturday.
Kyle Lowry scored 33 factors — his highest-scoring recreation in his two Miami seasons — for the Heat, who will host both Toronto or Chicago on Friday to determine the No. 8 seed and a spot in opposition to high general seed Milwaukee in Round 1. The Raptors and Bulls play Wednesday; the winner of Friday’s recreation opens the sequence in opposition to the Bucks on Sunday.
Tyler Herro scored 26 for Miami, and Jimmy Butler completed with 21.
For the Hawks, 4 reserves — Saddiq Bey, Bogdan Bogdanovic, Onyeka Okongwu and Jalen Johnson — mixed for 53 factors.
The Hawks improved to 3-0 all-time in play-in event video games; that’s the very best mark within the league, one which New Orleans can match when it performs host to Oklahoma City on Wednesday evening.
And they earned this one on the boards. Atlanta outrebounded Miami 63-39, together with 22-6 on the offensive glass that keyed a 26-6 edge in second-chance factors.
The Hawks took two timeouts within the first 3:53 of the third quarter, as most of what was a 24-point lead with 2:37 left within the first half — 63-39 Atlanta was the margin — received whittled away, and quick.
Miami reduce the margin to fifteen by halftime, then opened the third quarter on a 16-6 run. Add all of it up, and it was a 27-8 run in about 7 minutes of play to get the Heat inside 71-66.
But the Hawks had a solution then, and each different time the Heat made a run. The Atlanta lead was 13 once more going into the fourth, and when Miami was inside six halfway by means of the ultimate quarter, the Hawks scored 5 straight to revive a double-digit edge.
TIP-INS
Hawks: It was the second time this season that Atlanta took an enormous first-half lead and almost wasted all of it. The Hawks had been up 26 over Miami on Jan. 16, let the Heat get inside 4 within the last moments and held on to win 121-113. … Capela had one 20-rebound recreation within the common season.
Heat: Lowry got here off the bench in a postseason recreation for the primary time since 2009. His final 94 appearances after the common season had been all begins. … The Heat went 1-6 this season in opposition to Friday’s attainable win-or-go-home opponents — 0-3 in opposition to Chicago and 1-3 in opposition to Toronto.
LOOKING AHEAD
Boston went 3-0 in opposition to Atlanta this season, and almost all of the rotation gamers from each groups missed not less than a type of contests. Young averaged 31 factors and 11 assists in two video games in opposition to the Celtics; Jayson Tatum averaged 26.5 factors, 11 rebounds and 7 assists in two video games in opposition to the Hawks.
It’ll be the thirteenth sequence between the Celtics and Hawks franchises, the primary since Atlanta’s six-game Round 1 win in 2016.
PLAY-IN HISTORY
Miami grew to become the sixteenth franchise to take part within the play-in event. Chicago, Toronto and Oklahoma City will stretch that record out to 19 groups on Wednesday. That leaves solely Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Milwaukee, New York, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Sacramento and Utah as golf equipment who’ve but to be a part of the play-in occasion.
UP NEXT
Hawks: Visit Boston for Game 1 of an East first-round sequence Saturday.
Heat: Host both Toronto or Chicago in an elimination recreation Friday.
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