There are more than a month of regular season basketball to play this season, but a team has already won its place in the 2025 qualifiers. The Cleveland horsemen are officially in the top six, but it took them a wild end to get there.
Living the heat of three points with 18.4 seconds to play, Cleveland was a single stop of the victory. Instead, Duncan Robinson went up for a 3 -point pointer. Rustling.
But there was a problem. In an extremely rare call in the circumstances, Robinson was called out of limits while his foot touched the line before climbing with the blow. Robinson’s clutch brand was suffered from the board and Cleveland sank two free throws at the other end to seal the 112-107 victory.
The appeal will surely rand Heat fans given their history with such calls. In match 7 of the final of the Eastern Conference of 2022 against the Boston Celtics, a pointer of 3 Max Strus was removed from the table in a similar way. In a cruel coincidence, examine more closely who kept Robinson on this one. It’s true, it was Strus, now a member of the riders.
Victory is the 12th consecutive for Cleveland. For most teams, this would represent the best section of a season. For Cleveland? It’s as usual. This is the third sequence of distinct victories of 12 games that the CAVS had this season, joining the 2006-07 Dallas Mavericks as only teams to have won 12 consecutive or more at least three times in a season. This includes their start to the 15-0 season, tied to the second best in the history of the League.
At 52-10, Cleveland is underway to win 69 games in the season. Only three teams have ever done so in the history of the League: the Golden State Warriors 2015-2016 and the Bulls of Chicago 1995-1996 and 1996-1997.
The riders have made the story all the season, it is therefore appropriate that they do it a little more as they become the first team to win a place of playoffs. With an advance of eight games on the Boston Celtics in the loss column of the Eastern Conference with only 20 games to play, they are a nearby lock to finally win the head of n ° 1 in the east and ensure the advantage of the field at home throughout their push to return to the Nba Finals for the first time since 2018.
