{"id":491871,"date":"2026-04-08T12:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=491871"},"modified":"2026-04-08T12:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:01:16","slug":"miami-heat-headed-to-play-in-tournament-for-fourth-straight-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/miami-heat-headed-to-play-in-tournament-for-fourth-straight-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Heat headed to play-in tournament for fourth straight year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"10434\" data-end=\"10675\">The <strong data-start=\"10438\" data-end=\"10452\">Miami Heat<\/strong> will once again have to go through the <strong data-start=\"10492\" data-end=\"10514\">play-in tournament<\/strong> to reach the NBA playoffs.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"10434\" data-end=\"10675\">Their heavy loss to the <strong data-start=\"10568\" data-end=\"10587\">Toronto Raptors<\/strong> officially eliminated any chance of finishing in the top six in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"10677\" data-end=\"10893\">It will be the fourth straight play-in appearance for <strong data-start=\"10731\" data-end=\"10751\">Erik Spoelstra\u2019s<\/strong> team. Miami will now try to repeat what it managed in previous seasons, when it always survived the play-in and secured a postseason berth.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"10895\" data-end=\"10974\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The loss to Toronto officially ended Miami\u2019s top-six hopes in the Eastern Conference<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372525,"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":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-491871","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\/2024\/02\/Miami-Heay.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491871","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=491871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491871"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=491871"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=491871"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=491871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}