WASHINGTON — With a seemingly half-hearted showing in their final regular-season game Wednesday night, the Atlanta Hawks lost 109-98 to a bunch of backups for the Washington Wizards and wound up with the No. 4 seed in the Eastern Conference.

Atlanta finished 48-34 – the same record as the Miami Heat, who lost 98-88 at the Boston Celtics but owned the tiebreaker over the Hawks and earned the No. 3 seed.

Because of Miami’s loss, Atlanta would have moved up to No. 3 with a victory. Instead the Hawks dropped their second straight game and will face the No. 5 Celtics in the first round of the playoffs.

Atlanta didn’t hold a shootaround but otherwise didn’t take it easy, playing its usual lineup at the start of the game and for much of the fourth quarter. But the Hawks made only 39.5 percent of their shots.

TIMBERWOLVES 144, PELICANS 109: Karl-Anthony Towns had 28 points and 14 rebounds, and Minnesota won at Minneapolis to send Coach Sam Mitchell out in style.

Gorgui Dieng had 20 points and 11 rebounds, and Shabazz Muhammad scored 28 points for the Timberwolves (29-53), who learned before the game that the owner, Glen Taylor, planned to open a search for a new president of basketball operations and coach. Minnesota shot 65 percent, made 13 of 28 3-pointers and set a franchise record for points in a game.

RAPTORS 103, NETS 96: Rookie Norman Powell scored a career-high 30 points and Toronto won at New York to wrap up the best regular season in franchise history.

With the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference already secured, the Raptors didn’t even bring guards Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan, plus Jonas Valanciunas, James Johnson and DeMarre Carroll to the game.

PACERS 97, BUCKS 92: Solomon Hill scored a season-high 25 points, and Indiana won at Milwaukee despite resting four starters.

Lavoy Allen and Glenn Robinson III each added 14 points for Indiana, which clinched the seventh seed in the Eastern Conference on Tuesday night after beating the New York Knicks.

BULLS 115, 76ERS 105: Nikola Mirotic scored 32 points, Justin Holliday added a career-high 29, and Chicago won at home.

SPURS 96, MAVERICKS 91: Rookies Boban Marjanovic and Jonathon Simmons set career scoring highs and San Antonio rallied at Dallas despite sitting four starters and two key reserves.

PISTONS 112, CAVALIERS 110: LeBron James wore a black blazer and watched from the bench, and all the starters for Cleveland and Detroit rested for their first-round playoff matchup as Jodie Meeks scored 20 to lead the Pistons to an overtime win at Cleveland.

HORNETS 117, MAGIC 103: Al Jefferson scored 26 points as playoff-bound Charlotte won at home and closed out its best regular season in 16 years.

ROCKETS 116, KINGS 81: James Harden scored 38 points and Houston won at home to clinch the final Western Conference playoff spot.

NOTES

BUCKS: The team signed a 30-year lease with the public entity that will own the team’s new arena.

MAVERICKS: Forward David Lee left the game against San Antonio with a right foot injury and didn’t return.

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