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4th straight victory but tight game for Celtics
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BOSTON Celtics held off Miami Heat 112-108 on Sunday to pull into a virtual tie atop the NBA’s Eastern Conference with the reigning champion Cleveland Cavaliers.
The Celtics’ fourth straight victory gave the team one more win than the Cavs, who fell to the Washington Wizards on Saturday. But Celtics also has one more defeat, leaving it technically just a few percentage points behind Cleveland.
Knowing plenty can happen with just over two weeks left in the regular season, Isaiah Thomas, who led the Celtics with 30 points, said “I mean, it’s nice. It’s just a tie though.”
“We hear it, but that wasn’t our focus tonight,” said Boston’s Jae Crowder, who scored a season-high 25 points and grabbed six rebounds. “Our focus was to come in, get another game, keep that momentum going before we start the play-offs.”
The Celtics earned a day off yesterday, when Cleveland faced the dangerous San Antonio Spurs. The Celtics and Cavaliers will meet one more time in the regular season, on April 5 in Boston.
The defeat, and the Chicago Bulls’ 109-94 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks, left Miami just a half-game ahead of Chicago for the eighth and final play-off spot in the East.
The Bucks, the Atlanta Hawks, and Indiana Pacers, are in a three-way tie for fifth place in the East.
The Pacers snapped a two-game losing streak with a 107-94 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers, while the reeling Hawks endured a seventh straight defeat — 107-92 to the Brooklyn Nets.
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