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5 next-day takeaways from Sixers’ big win in South Beach

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Phew, what a night.

If there was ever an NBA game that epitomized “basketball is a game of runs” it was the Sixers’ dramatic 109-105 win over the Miami Heat Thursday. It felt like the Sixers would get control of the game, build a lead and fall apart at the end of each quarter — until the fourth, of course.

The victory puts the Sixers very much in play for the all-important, Play-In-avoiding sixth seed. They sit one game behind the sixth-seeded Pacers and a half game back from the seventh-seeded Heat with five games left to play.