The game between the Miami Heat and Atlanta Hawks will take place at Kaseya Center on Tuesday, April 11 at 7:30 PM ET.
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The Miami Heat will welcome the Atlanta Hawks to the Kaseya Center for an NBA game on Tuesday. The Miami Heat won 123-110 in their last game over the Magic. Udonis Haslem went out a winner, and put on a show. Haslem scored 24 points in his final regular-season game, Duncan Robinson added 20 and the Miami Heat tuned up for the play-in tournament by topping the Orlando Magic 123-110 on Sunday. It was Haslem’s highest-scoring game since he had 28 points on Nov. 14, 2009. He checked out for the final time with 58.9 seconds left, getting the last of many ovations that rained down throughout the afternoon.
And Haslem became the first 42-year-old to score 24 or more points in a game. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was three days past his 41st birthday when he scored at least 24 for the final time; no one had been older than that in such a game, until Sunday. “He is the ultimate competitor, the ultimate teammate, the ultimate winner,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “He’s about all the right things. He also has that ‘it’ quality and he’s always had that.” Haslem was 9 for 17 from the floor, 3 for 7 from 3-point range. It was Haslem’s 1,026th game — including playoffs — and he’s only scored more points in two of them.
“So many people have sacrificed for me and this is for them. This is their day as much as it is mine,” said Haslem, who is retiring when this season — his 20th, all with Miami — ends. “This love affair that I’ve had with this organization and this city for the last 20 years is going to continue to grow.” Victor Oladipo scored 19, Jamal Cain added 18 and Omer Yurtseven finished with 14 for Miami — which got a franchise-record 111 points off its bench.
The Atlanta Hawks on the other hand lost 120-114 against the Celtics in their last game. Garrison Mathews and Bruno Fernando led the Hawks with 19 points apiece. Locked into the Eastern Conference’s eighth seed, the Hawks (41-41) will be at the Miami Heat on Tuesday in a play-in game. “Our focus needs to go immediately to Miami and what we need to do to prepare for that game,” Hawks coach Quin Snyder said.
Coming off last season’s run to the NBA Finals where they lost to Golden State in six games, Boston, the East’s No. 2 seed, will face the winner of the Heat-Hawks series in the opening round. The Celtics (57-25) sat usual starters Jayson Tatum, the team’s leading scorer at 30.1 points per game, Al Horford, Jaylen Brown (cut finger) and Marcus Smart. Also out were key reserves Malcolm Brogdon (lower back pain) and Robert Williams III.
Miami Heat: Haywood Highsmith, Max Strus, Bam Adebayo, Tyler Herro, Gabe Vincent
Atlanta Hawks: De’Andre Hunter, Saddiq Bey, Onyeka Okongwu, Aaron Holiday, AJ Griffin
Miami Heat: Nikola Jovic
Atlanta Hawks: John Collins, Dejounte Murray, Trae Young, Clint Capela, Bogdan Bogdanovic
The game between the Miami Heat and Atlanta Hawks will take place at Kaseya Center on Tuesday, April 11 at 7:30 PM ET.
The match between the Miami Heat and Atlanta Hawks will be telecast live on Bally Sports Southeast, Fox Sports Southeast, Bally Sports Sun, Fox Sports Sun.
| Country | Channel | Date and Time |
| United States | Bally Sports Southeast, Fox Sports Southeast, Bally Sports Sun, Fox Sports Sun. | April 11 (7:30 PM ET) |
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