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Heat Clinch No. 5 Seed in Eastern Conference Playoffs After Loss to Pacers

The Miami Heat will be the No. 5 seed in the Eastern Conference when the playoffs begin following Friday's 109-92 loss to the Indiana Pacers.

Miami will face the Pacers, who clinched the No. 4 seed, in the first round of the playoffs.

The Heat were 41-24 when the season was suspended on March 11, which was good enough for the No. 4 seed in the Eastern Conference and well ahead of the eighth-seeded Orlando Magic. In fact, Miami was 11 games ahead of the Magic and could not mathematically fall into a play-in tournament regardless of how it played during its eight seeding games.