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Final Score: Cleveland 91 - Philadelphia 90

Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - Devin Brown hit two free throws with two- tenths of a second remaining to give Cleveland a one-point lead, and the Cavaliers clinched the Eastern Conference's fourth seed by stealing a 91-90 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers at the Wachovia Center.

After the Sixers' Lou Williams hit a jumper with 5.1 ticks on the clock to give Philadelphia a 90-89 lead, Cleveland had one possession with which to work. With a foul to give, Philly fouled LeBron James on the floor with 4.1 ticks showing. Out of the ensuing inbounds, James attacked the rim and lofted a shot from just inside the foul line, which rattled off. Brown grabbed the rebound with less than a second to go, but missed the putback as the horn sounded and the game appeared over.

But officials immediately went to the replay monitors to review what apparently had been a foul called on Sixers center Samuel Dalembert. After a near-five-minute delay, the players, who had left the court thinking the game was over, were called back as Brown was awarded two foul shots.

He hit both for a one-point Cleveland lead, and Philly couldn't even manage a shot before the clock expired at the other end.

Brown finished with 13 points off the Cavs bench, while James went for 27 and five assists. Zydrunas Ilgauskas added 22 points and seven rebounds for Cleveland (45-36), which earned homecourt advantage in the first round of the playoffs with the victory - its second straight. The Cavs will face the Washington Wizards in the opening round. The squads have met in the postseason for three consecutive seasons.

Williams had 21 points in 23 minutes on 9-of-11 shooting for Philadelphia (40-41), which has lost three straight to fall back under .500 and firmly into the seventh seed in the East. The Sixers will face the Detroit Pistons in the first round of the postseason.

Philly's Andre Miller had 26 points and six assists, but leading scorer Andre Iguodala was a non-factor, scoring just 10 points on 4-of-17 shooting and getting exploited on the defensive end by James.

Miller completed a 14-3 Sixers run to come from 12 down in the fourth, tying the game at 80 with a coast-to-coast bucket at the 4:37 mark. Daniel Gibson then hit a three to put Cleveland back in front, but Thaddeus Young went baseline for a teardrop to trim the lead back to one.

After the teams traded baskets with less than a minute remaining, Williams snuck into the lane and dropped in a tough floater to again make it a one- point Sixers lead before Brown attacked Dalembert at the other end and got a fortuitous roll to put Cleveland back on top.

Out of a timeout, Philly tried to go to Iguodala, but he lost the handle on the perimeter with James sticking to him tightly. Williams came up with the loose ball, and turned the broken play into a bucket when he knocked down a contested stepback jumper from just inside the three-point line. That gave the Sixers a one-point lead with five seconds remaining, and they appeared to secure the victory on the ensuing possession before the review led to the controversial free throws and Cleveland victory.

Gibson finished with nine points for the Cavs, while Anderson Varejao added eight and eight boards.

Young and Willie Green totaled 11 each for the Sixers, though Green left the game during the third quarter with an undisclosed injury and did not return.

Philly led 22-19 after one quarter, but Cleveland opened the second on a 12-5 spurt with James on the bench, taking a four-point lead just inside the seven- minute mark. The Cavs scored nine unanswered late in the half to take a 45-37 advantage on their way to a 47-41 halftime lead.

Both teams struggled to generate points during the third - the Sixers made just one field goal in a span of nearly five minutes - and Cleveland went up 58-49 on James' bucket in the paint with 4:01 to go in the period. Philadelphia managed a late surge to pull as close as three, but James buried a three from the top of the key just before the buzzer to put the Cavs up 67-59 entering the fourth.

James knocked down another long jumper in the face of Iguodala to give Cleveland its largest lead to that point, 73-61, with over 10 minutes remaining. The Sixers rallied again though, with Young picking James' pocket and going the distance for a dunk, and Williams scoring four straight to trim the lead to 77-72 with more than seven minutes still to go.