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The No. 1-seeded Boston Celtics will face the No. 8-seeded Miami Heat in the first round of the NBA playoffs.
Intradivisional rivalries comprise games between opponents in the same division. Since the 2004–05 NBA season, there are 30 teams in six divisions of five teams each. Each team plays each division opponent four times during the regular season (twice at home, twice away) for a total of 16 games out of 82 total regular season games.
Chicago swept Miami in the regular season en route to the league's best record and also blew out the Heat in Game 1 of the conference finals, 103–82. However, Miami advanced to the NBA Finals by capturing the next four games. In Game 5, the Heat erased a 12-point deficit with three minutes remaining to eliminate the Bulls, 83–80. [20]
The Pelicans won those games by an average of 19.2 points. New Orleans suffered a 110-106 home loss to the Los Angeles Lakers in the first round of the play-in tournament on Tuesday.
The 2023–24 New Orleans Pelicans season was the 22nd season of the New Orleans Pelicans franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The team returned to the playoffs after a one-year absence defeating the Sacramento Kings in the second game of the NBA play-in tournament after losing to the Los Angeles Lakers in the first game.
The league also suspended Heat forward Nikola Jović one game for joining the fracas from the bench. Jimmy Butler was one of five players suspended from Friday's Heat-Pelicans game.
The Bulls-Heat game is a rematch of the East play-in finale last year, a game where Chicago led by three with 3:47 left and got outscored 15-1 the rest of the way. ... Season series: Pelicans, 5-0 ...
The Heat then overcame a 16-point fourth-quarter deficit in game 5 to become the sixth 8-seeded team to defeat a 1-seeded team in playoff history. [15] Butler, who averaged just 22.9 points in the regular season, finished the first round averaging 37.6 points on 60% from the field. [16]