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James Helps Heat Clinch Playoff Berth - New York Times Apr 4th 2012, 01:50 LeBron James scored a season-high 41 points, Mario Chalmers added 19 and the host Miami Heat clinched a playoff spot with a 99-93 win over the Philadelphia 76ers on Tuesday night. James scored 14 straight Miami points in the fourth quarter, helping the Heat complete a four-game season sweep of Philadelphia and extend their home-court winning streak to 16 games. Chris Bosh scored 17 points for Miami, which played without Dwyane Wade, who sat out with a bruised left knee. Evan Turner scored 26 points for Philadelphia, which fell a game and a half behind Boston in the Atlantic Division. SPURS 125, CAVALIERS 90 Danny Green scored 19 points against a Cleveland team that released him last season and Tony Parker added 19 as visiting San Antonio coasted to its eighth straight win. Green played his rookie season for Cleveland, which cut him in 2011. He has found a new home with the Spurs, who built a 22-point lead in the first half and rested Parker, Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili for most of the fourth quarter. The rookie Kyrie Irving scored 13 points for the Cavaliers in his return after missing one game with a sprained right shoulder. PISTONS 102, MAGIC 95 Greg Monroe had 22 points and 11 rebounds for host Detroit. The Magic were without the starters Dwight Howard, Jameer Nelson and Ryan Anderson because of injuries. The Magic have lost four straight. RAPTORS 92, BOBCATS 87 Andrea Bargnani scored 30 points and DeMar DeRozan had 20 for host Toronto, which snapped a six-game losing streak to the lowly Bobcats. Linas Kleiza scored 18 points and Toronto won back-to-back games for the first time since road victories at Phoenix on Jan. 24 and Utah on Jan. 25. GRIZZLIES 98, WARRIORS 94 O. J. Mayo scored 19 points, Mike Conley added 18 and host Memphis Grizzlies overcame a lackluster performance with a fourth-quarter rally. Golden State led by 12 early in the fourth quarter, but Memphis went on a 13-0 run to erase the advantage and win its third straight game. David Lee scored 22 points to lead the Warriors, who lost their sixth straight. SEATTLE ARENA OPPOSED The Mariners have sent a letter to the City of Seattle and King County officials saying they do not support the idea of a new N.B.A./N.H.L. arena in the same neighborhood as the Mariners' home, Safeco Field. The Mariners' chairman, Howard Lincoln, said in the letter that the franchise supports the idea of the N.B.A.'s returning to Seattle, but that an exhaustive examination of various sites for a new arena needs to be conducted. A version of this article appeared in print on April 4, 2012, on page B12 of the New York edition with the headline: James Helps Heat Clinch Playoff Berth. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.

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