And at a time when the Seventy Sixers secured third place in the eastern region with 52 wins compared to 28 defeats and was waiting to know the identity of his opponent in the first round of the “playoff”, the Seventh Heat did his best to come out victorious and maintain a fine thread by surpassing the sixth Brooklyn Nets in his quest to grab the card. last for direct qualification.

The task of the Heat is summarized by winning its last two matches once morest the Washington Wizards and the Orlando Magic, in conjunction with the loss of the Nets, who have their fate in their hands, in their last two matches at home once morest Orlando and Philadelphia.

And waiting for things to turn out, the Heat imposed its dominance from the beginning of the first quarter, which it ended with a 41-31 lead, with a success rate of 68.2 percent on throws. He advanced by 33 points in some periods of the match, taking advantage of the decline in the defensive performance of Philadelphia, on the impact of the brilliance of the duo, Jimmy Butler and Tyler Hero, with 24 points each.

Cameroonian loser Joel Embiid emerged with 21 points in 30 minutes, as he spent the last quarter on the bench to rest to avoid injury.

And without its stars Donovan Mitchell, Darius Garland, Evan Mobley and Garrett Allen, the Cleveland Cavaliers had no difficulty in defeating the Orlando Magic 118-94, who also played the match without their main players.

And he emerged in the ranks of the Cavaliers, veteran replacement Danny Green (35 years), by scoring 21 points.

In the western region, the tenth Oklahoma City Thunder returned to the winning streak following suffering three defeats in a row by defeating the Utah Jazz 114-98, and maintaining its hopes of a seat in the playoffs.

In the event that City Thunder, in whose ranks the Canadian duo Shay Gilgos-Alexander starred with 22 points and Australian Josh Geddy (17 points, 8 assists and the same number of rebounds), managed to win in his last match once morest the Memphis Grizzlies on Sunday, he would guarantee the play-off at the expense of the eleventh Dallas Mavericks.

The failure of the Mavericks will be a painful blow to the hopes of the team that reached the final of the region last season and of the Slovenian duo Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving.

In a marginal match, with the exception of the Phoenix Suns confirming its fourth position, the Arizona club imposed its last word once morest the leaders, Denver Nuggets, by defeating it 119-115, with the possibility of repeating the confrontation between them in the semi-finals of the region.

Although Denver played the match without five of its main players to rest (Serbian Nikola Jokic, Canadian Jamal Murray, Michael Porter, Aaron Gordon and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope), the substitutes lived up to the hopes and made it difficult for the Suns, who played the match with all his stars in order to consolidate the relationship between Kevin. Durant next two months ago, but he did not play much due to an ankle injury, and his companions are on the field.

While Durant scored 29 points, Chris Paul imposed himself as a star for the meeting with 25 points, including 10 at crucial times, and led their team to its seventh successive victory.

The San Antonio Spurs defeated the Portland Trail Blazers 129-127.