ORLANDO - The Indiana Pacers earned the right to be the"home" team to begin their first-round playoff series with the Miami Heat by beating their Eastern Conference rivals 109-92 on Friday in their National Basketball Association regular-season finale near Orlando.
The Pacers and Heat will next play in a best-of-seven play-off series, beginning Tuesday. Despite the loss, the Heat won the season series 3-1.With nothing at stake other than the colour of jerseys for the play-off opener, the Pacers played without T.J. Warren, Domantas Sabonis, Victor Oladipo and Myles Turner. The Heat rested Jimmy Butler, Goran Dragic, Bam Adebayo, Jae Crowder and Andre Iguodala.
Miami coach Erik Spoelstra was hopeful Jones would not be sidelined long with the Heat set to meet the Pacers beginning Tuesday. Spoelstra said post-game:"He's already moving better. Let's wait and see before we go in full-scale panic mode."A lighter scene resulted when Heat veteran Udonis Haslem connected on his first three-point basket since 2018. The 17-year veteran is now 5-for-58 from beyond the arc in his career.
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