Heat-76ers will meet in Play-In game Wednesday in Philadelphia

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MIAMI – The Miami Heat now know their post-season fate.

It will be the Play-In Game and not the playoffs, yet, for the Heat.

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Miami beat Toronto 118-103 on Sunday afternoon.

However, Miami needed help in order to move up in the standings.

Wins by Philadelphia, Indiana, and Orlando kept Miami as the No. 8 seed in the East.

Miami will play at the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday night.

That game will tip off at 7 p.m.

If the Heat win, they’ll earn the No. 7 seed in the East.

If they lose, the Heat will host the winner of the Atlanta-Chicago game for the No. 8 seed in the East.


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