So with the Heat winning tonight the Celtics are basically playing them tomorrow for home court and the 4th seed??
Yep, we own the tiebreaker...thanks to last night's performance, home court now relies on a win tomorrow. Better show up
On Twitter the beat reporters are saying not just a Celtics win but a Hawks win as well would give us the 4th seed is that right? Or just a Celtics win?
I don't see how. We need to beat the Heat. If we win and the Hawks lose, we'll have identical records with the Hawks and Heat. Hawks own the tiebreaker over us and we own it over the Heat so we'd be 4th in that scenario.
Here's how it basically plays out as far as I know with tiebreakers
We win, Heat lose = 4th seed
We lose, Heat win, Charlotte loses = 5th
We lose, Heat win, Charlotte wins = 6th