Tyler Herro had a game-high 30 factors, Davion Mitchell buried three 3-pointers in extra time and the Miami Warmth superior into the NBA playoffs with a 123-114 highway victory over the Atlanta Hawks within the Jap Convention play-in finale Friday night time.
The No. 10 Warmth, who started the four-team playoff-qualification event needing to win consecutive highway video games with a purpose to advance, efficiently adopted up a 109-90 romp at Chicago with a purpose to earn a first-round matchup with the East’s prime seed, the Cleveland Cavaliers.
The eighth-place Hawks didn’t advance regardless of needing to win simply certainly one of two video games. They have been coming off a 120-95 shellacking at Orlando.
After Trae Younger hit a floater following a Herro 3-pointer to start the additional session, Mitchell took over, bombing in a pair of threes to provide Miami a lead it would not relinquish.
Andrew Wiggins’ hoop gave Miami a nine-point cushion, after which the Hawks obtained no nearer than three. Three-pointers by Herro and Mitchell within the ultimate 1:41 iced the win, sending the Warmth to the playoffs for the sixth consecutive season.
Down by as many as 17 factors early on and up by six within the fourth quarter, the Hawks wanted two layups from Younger within the ultimate 52.1 seconds of regulation to power extra time.
His second basket, a driving layup with 1.3 seconds left, adopted a missed free throw by Tyler Herro with 12.0 left when the Warmth had an opportunity to go up by three.
Wiggins misfired from the left nook on the regulation horn, extending the sport an additional 5 minutes.
Half of Herro’s 30 factors got here on 3-pointers. He hit 5 of 10 from past the arc, whereas Mitchell went 4-for-9 as a part of his 16-point effort off the bench.
Bam Adebayo chipped in with 17 factors, a team-high 11 rebounds and 5 blocks, whereas Wiggins totaled 20 factors to go along with eight rebounds and a team-high eight assists. Kel’el Ware and Haywood Highsmith added 12 factors apiece, with Highsmith finishing a double-double with 10 rebounds.
Younger had 29 factors and a game-high 11 assists for the Hawks. Onyeka Okongwu (28 factors, game-high 12 rebounds) and Dyson Daniels (11 factors, 10 rebounds) additionally recorded double-doubles, whereas Georges Niang went for 20 factors off the bench and Caris LeVert had 15.
–Subject Degree Media