The No. 1-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers will face the No. 8-seeded Miami Heat in the first round of the 2025 NBA playoffs.

The teams enter this postseason having never faced each other in the playoffs as Miami has faced every other Eastern Conference team in the postseason except Cleveland. PROJECTED STARTERS HEAT G Tyler Herro G Alec Burks C Kel'el Ware F Andrew Wiggins F Bam Adebayo Heat coach Erik Spoelstra on the season: "We’ve been through a lot.

In one corner, the Cleveland Cavaliers stormed out to 15 wins in their first 15 games and never really looked back, capturing the East’s No. 1 seed and, along the way, becoming just the second team in history to produce three separate winning streaks of at least 12 games.