The Philadelphia 76ers lost another big man but kept on rolling Tuesday night at home. They hope to stay hot and keep the heat on in the Eastern Conference playoff race when they put an 11-game winning streak on the line at the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday.

The Orlando Magic are coming off one of their top performances of the season as they enter Wednesday's home matchup with the Dallas Mavericks. Orlando allowed its fewest points of the campaign in Tuesday's 97-73 road victory over the New York Knicks and gave up just 28 in the second half.

The Miami Heat clinched a playoff spot on the front end of the back-to-back with Atlanta and look to finish it off with another victory when they visit the Hawks on Wednesday. Miami rattled off the final 11 points of Tuesday's 101-98 victory to reach the playoffs for the 12th time in the past 15 seasons.

The race for the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference intensifies Wednesday when the first-place Toronto Raptors host the Boston Celtics. Both teams lost games Tuesday night, leaving them separated by two games with five to play, including this final encounter of the season series that will also determine the tiebreaker between the two teams.

The New Orleans Pelicans put themselves in a precarious position by losing their last four games and are on the verge of falling out of the top eight in the Western Conference. The Pelicans will try to take advantage of a lighter spot in the schedule and snap the slide when they host the lowly Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesday.

The San Antonio Spurs' streak of 18 consecutive 50-win seasons has reached an end as the team finds itself in a battle for homecourt advantage in the first round of the playoffs. The Spurs will try to take a step toward that quest when they visit the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday.