Baseline to Baseline recaps: Playoff impacts everywhere you look

What you missed while getting drunk on peanut butter and jelly flavored vodka….

Heat 98, Thunder 93: Don’t read too much into “statements” before the playoffs start, but the Heat made one in one of our games of the night.

Lakers 113, Clippers 108: The Clippers had the big highlights, but the Lakers will take the win and likely the Pacific Division (and third seed) in our other game of the night.

Spurs 87, Celtics 86: Two veteran playoff teams put kept the Garden fans entertained in a close one… but when did Avery Bradley (19 points) become the best Celtic? For that matter, you could say Danny Green was the best Spur on the night (he had 14 and played good defense on Rajon Rondo). Stephen Jackson came off the bench for a good night for the Spurs. Be careful about saying this was a statement game of any kind — Boston scored 38 points in the second half, the Spurs 28 and both shot under 40 percent. This wasn’t pretty.

Mavericks 95, Grizzlies 85: Dallas used a 21-4 run in the fourth quarter to take the lead and get the win, a run sparked by Shawn Marion’s dozen in the final frame. Dirk Nowitzki had 23, Jason Terry changed the tone of the game with his 15 and energy off the bench. O.J. Mayo had 17 to lead the Grizzlies.

Raptors 99, Sixers 78: Philadelphia is just falling apart. The Sixers scored 15 points in the third quarter and 7 in the fourth, allowing Toronto to pull away behind Andrea Bargnani (24 on the night). Philly looked good in the first half (58 percent shooting) but a different team came out of the locker room for the second half. Which is starting to sound like the Sixers season.

Pacers 109, Wizards 96: Washington fell behind big early, fought back in the second and stayed close =until a 16-6 third quarter run by the Pacers broke the game open and from there the rout was on. Darren Collison had 17 points and 11 dimes, Danny Granger had 20 points. The Wizards traded Nick Young in part to get Jordan Crawford more run and he is responding, he had 28 in the loss.

Suns 107, Jazz 105: Utah went on a late 16-6 run in the fourth quarter to make this a close game and tied it on an Al Jefferson bucket, but Steve Nash hit the game winning bucket by splitting the defenders and hitting a 15-footer. With the win the Suns move to within a game Denver for the last playoff spot in the West and are now half a game ahead of the Jazz. Seven Suns scored in double figures. Paul Millsap had 25 for the Jazz.

Hawks 120, Bobcats 93: The Hawks shot 57 percent as a team. Good on them, but most of the reason for that falls on what the Bobcats call “defense.” This was over by halftime. Josh Smith had 24.

Hornets 94, Nuggets 92: Eric Gordon was back and he had 15 including the game-winning free throws after drawing the foul. They missed him so. The Hornets led pretty much the entire second half. If the Nuggets fall out of the playoffs by a game or so, they can look back to this one.

Warriors 97, Timberwolves 94: After the game Kevin Love said the Timberwolves deserved every boo they got. I say if you are booing the Timberwolves at home your perspective on what this team is right now is way, way out of line. Enjoy the improvement and support them. Love had 29, the Warriors took a night off from tanking behind David Lee’s 31.

Trail Blazers 101, Nets 88: LaMarcus Aldridge is better than Kris Humphries and dropped 24. Portland used a 16-1 run in the fourth quarter to take back the lead and pull away.

Bucks 107, Cavaliers 98: Milwaukee went on a 12-0 run in the first quarter to take the lead and never looked back. Monta Ellis dropped 30 and the Cavs had no answer for him.