{"id":431515,"date":"2025-03-06T08:18:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T07:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=431515"},"modified":"2025-03-06T08:18:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T07:18:42","slug":"cleveland-cavaliers-clinch-first-nba-playoff-spot-defeat-miami-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/cleveland-cavaliers-clinch-first-nba-playoff-spot-defeat-miami-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Cavaliers clinch first NBA Playoff spot, defeat Miami Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"869\" data-end=\"1039\">With a <strong data-start=\"876\" data-end=\"887\">112-107<\/strong> victory over the <strong data-start=\"905\" data-end=\"919\">Miami Heat<\/strong>, the <strong data-start=\"925\" data-end=\"948\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/strong> have officially become the <strong data-start=\"976\" data-end=\"994\">first NBA team<\/strong> to secure a <strong data-start=\"1007\" data-end=\"1024\">Playoff berth<\/strong> this season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1041\" data-end=\"1523\">Led by <strong data-start=\"1048\" data-end=\"1068\">Donovan Mitchell<\/strong> (26 points) and <strong data-start=\"1085\" data-end=\"1103\">Darius Garland<\/strong> (10 assists), the <strong data-start=\"1122\" data-end=\"1130\">Cavs<\/strong> extended their <strong data-start=\"1146\" data-end=\"1166\">win streak to 12<\/strong>, making history with one of the best regular seasons in franchise history.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1041\" data-end=\"1523\">Despite a strong performance from <strong data-start=\"1276\" data-end=\"1291\">Bam Adebayo<\/strong> (34 points), <strong data-start=\"1305\" data-end=\"1314\">Miami<\/strong>\u2014missing several key players\u2014failed to score in the final minutes. <strong data-start=\"1381\" data-end=\"1395\">Kevin Love<\/strong> was warmly welcomed back to Cleveland, receiving a standing ovation for his contributions to the <strong data-start=\"1493\" data-end=\"1520\">2016 title-winning team<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"765\" data-end=\"782\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/44129550\/cavs-first-earn-playoff-berth-handle-heat-12th-row\"><em data-start=\"765\" data-end=\"773\">Source:<\/em> <em data-start=\"774\" data-end=\"780\">ESPN<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a 112-107 victory over the Miami Heat, the Cleveland Cavaliers have officially become the first NBA team to secure a Playoff berth this season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":431514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-431515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/GlUxDnqWkAAbve7.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431515"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=431515"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=431515"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=431515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}