European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Atlanta s Stacey Augmon strips Ball from Orlando s Larry Krystkowiak on saturday. Aba Jeff with very Little to Clear up in finales by the associated press the Aba playoff picture got clearer saturday making nine of sunday s 11games meaningless in determining Post season matchup. The Atlanta Hawks clinched the Home court advantage through the Eastern conference playoffs with a 93-89 Victory Over Orlando. The Hawks will play Miami in the Best-of-5 opening round series. The magic will play Indiana. Atlanta s Victory locked the new York kicks into the second seeding position and the Chicago bulls into the third no matter what happened in sunday s Gam Between the two teams. If Chicago were to win sunday Bot will be 56-26, but the kicks own the tie breaker advantage because of their better record against playoff teams from the conference. All the Western conference seeding positions were determined after Friday night s games. Top seeded Seattle will play Denver Houston will play Portland Phoenix will play Golden state and san Antonio will play Utah. Playoff schedules were to be released sunday an Aba spokesman said. The sixth and seventh seeds in the East Cleveland or new Jersey were the Only ones not settled before sunday. If the Cavaliers were to beat Boston on sunday they would be the sixth seed. But if Cleveland lost and new Jersey beat or Lando the nets would be the sixth seed. If both Cleveland and new Jersey lost the cars would be seeded sixth and tenets seventh. Battle Agic top seed r by the associated press Atlanta the Atlanta Hawks did something saturday they be never done before. They clinched the top seed in the Eastern conference  Hawks did it with a hard fought 9389 Victory Over the Orlando magic As Suring themselves Home court advantage through the conference  always want to be going into the playoffs on a positive note coach Lenn Wilkens said. This win gives us a lift and that s important. Well be  Augmon had 22 Points and 11 rebounds and his Dunk with 26 second left ended the scoring. Kevin Willis had 21 Points and 14 rebounds Danny Man Ning had 19 Points and cookie Blaylock added 15 Points and 15 assists. The Hawks claimed their fourth Divi Sion title since moving to Atlanta in 1968.they will play Miami in the .Best-of-5 opening round of the playoffs. Orlando the fourth seed will play in Diana a a the key play came with about 30 seconds remaining. Orlando trailed 91-89 and had a Chance to tie. But with the shot clock running Down Rookie Anfernee Hardaway lost the Ball to Blaylock who passed to a wide open Augmon for the game breaking Dunk. That last trap kind of developed itself and we were Able to turn it into an important Basket for us Blaylock said. I thought it was great that the game came Down to a defensive play for us said Wilkens who has been stressing de sense Ever since he took the Hawk Job after stepping Down As coach of Cleve land following last year s playoffs. Shaquille o Neal in a Battle with san Antonio s David Robinson for the league scoring title led the magic with 27 Points and 19 rebounds. O Neal was averaging 29.313 Points going into yesterday s finale against new Jersey. Rpbinson was averaging 29.266 heading into his final regular season game yesterday at the los Angeles clip pers.  i was t thinking about Points o Neal said. I wanted to play my game 25-28 Points. If i get the scoring title i get it. If not i m not worrying about  was Atlanta s seventh Home Victory in a Row and its sixth in eight games Over All to finish the season leaving it with franchise record tying 57 victories. The game was a Back and Forth affair with neither team leading by More than six Points in the first three quarters. The Hawks took a 72-70jead on Willis jump Hook with 20 seconds left in the third and then went on a 9-2 spurt at the Start of the fourth to Lead 81-72 with 8 56  led 89-80 on two Augmon free throws with 4 56 left before the magic staged a late rally to Cut the Lead to 91-89 with 1 16 to play. After Augmon s Dunk Dennis Scott and Nick Anderson failed on 3-pointers, with Augmon claiming the rebound aft Randerson s miss. Scott scored 20 for the magic and Hardaway finished with 18.in other games saturday pacers 114, heat 81 Indianapolis Reggie Miller scored 24 Points and Indiana clinched the stars and stripes ports april 25,1994 Page 32 fifth place in the Eastern conference with a club record eighth straight Victory. The pacers finished the regular season with their Best record 47-35, since join ing the Aba. They will play Orlando in the first round of their fifth straight play off appearance. The heat finished with a franchise Best 42-40 record. The loss for Miami was its 11th straight at Market Square Arena. The pacers got the Victory with aggressive defense and continued hot shooting. For a club record ninth straight game the pacers shot Over 50 percent from the floor hitting 55 percent against Miami. Rony Seikaly led Miami with 17 Points and 15 rebounds. Hornets 108, pistons 103 Charlotte . Alonz mourning scored a career High 39 Points to Lead Charlotte to a come from behind Victory Over Detroit in the hornets last Home game of the season. Mourning hit 14 of 22 Field goals and 11 of 15 free throws and also had re Bounds and five blocked shots warriors 126, lakers 91 Oakland Calif. Chris Webbe scored 27 Points to Lead six warriors in double figures As Golden state sent los Angeles to a franchise record ninth straight loss in magic Johnson s next to last game As coach. Los Angeles is 5-10 since Johnson was named coach March 23. The lakers suffered their worst loss of the season. Nets 135, Bucks 100 East Rutherford no. Der Rick Coleman had 17 Points and 12 re Bounds and new Jersey kept its playoff picture unsettled by defeating Milwaukee. New Jersey which won its fifth straight and had a season High Point total will play Chi Cago or new York in a Best-pf-5 opening round series suns 101, Kings 100 Phoenix Kevin Johnson scored 20 Points Cedric Ceballos had 18 and Phoenix held off a furious last minute rally to close its regular season with a narrow Victory Over Sacramento. The suns who will play Golden state in the first round of the playoffs finished the regular season with a seven game winning Streak. Sacramento s Spud Webb led All scorers with 32 Points. 0ii246850"00050411