The Sixers will host the 7-8 play-in game vs. the Heat for a chance to play against the No. 2 seed Knicks.
in their season finale here at Wells Fargo Center, most of the 76ers roster was standing in the locker room watching the final moments of the
"Obviously we've had some great battles with them, and we always expect that facing them," 76ers coach Nick Nurse said after the win of the prospect of facing Miami."The mindset is we're playing well and do everything we can, like we've been doing the last month of the year ... digging in and playing our guys and doing whatever we have to, whatever we got to do to win.
"But once we sat our guys at the end of the 3rd quarter and they had the mindset of not going back in, I didn't want to take any risks of putting them back into the game. When everyone had already cooled down and then something else happens. That loss by Cleveland ensured the Cavaliers would finish fourth. If they had won Cleveland would have secured the No. 3 seed due to owning the tiebreaker over the Bucks.
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