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.

Cleveland opens the NBA playoffs on Sunday night. Here are our Cavaliers vs. Heat predictions, picks and best bets for Game 1.

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.