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Pacers Secure Seventh Seed

Home win over the Knicks coupled with Pistons' home loss to Heat means Indiana will play Toronto Raptors in playoffs' first round.

The Detroit Pistons and Miami Heat were going down the wire in the Motor City in a game that had significance for the Indiana Pacers Tuesday night.

But the Pacers’ Solomon Hill wasn’t getting caught up in scoreboard watching. Even if the Pistons lost — which they did, enabling Indiana to clinch the Eastern Conference’s No. 7 playoff seed — Hill was going to have to play in Wednesday’s regular-season finale at Milwaukee anyway.