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Double-OT win keeps Pacers’ playoff bid on track
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THE Indiana Pacers moved one game closer to a National Basketball Association playoff berth on Tuesday with a dramatic double-overtime triumph over the Washington Wizards.
CJ Miles scored 25 points and George Hill flirted with a triple-double, delivering 24 points, 10 assists and nine rebounds for the Pacers in Indiana.
Indiana moved a game in front of the Brooklyn Nets for the eighth and final Eastern Conference playoff berth.
The Pacers will reach the post-season with a win at Memphis, or if Brooklyn loses to Orlando on the final night of the regular season today.
David West had 15 points and eight rebounds in the Pacers’ sixth straight win, which officially spelled the end of the Miami Heat’s slim playoff hopes.
The Heat, who made it to the NBA finals in each of the last four seasons and won it all in two of those years, will miss the postseason for the first time since 2008.
The Wizards, already assured of the fifth seed in the East, played their starters anyway.
Bradley Beal and Marcin Gortat scored 19 points apiece, Gortat adding 10 rebounds in the setback.
Elsewhere in the East, the Boston Celtics locked up the seventh seed with a 95-93 win over the Toronto Raptors.
The rebuilding Celtics were 14 games under .500 on February 2, but have since gone 23-12.
They were assured of a playoff berth on Monday when the Nets fell to the Bulls.
By securing the seventh seed, they booked a first-round playoff clash with LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Also, the Los Angeles Clippers beat the injury-depleted Phoenix Suns 112-101 to clinch the West’s No. 3 seed.
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