Kobe Bryant ended the regular season with a flourish, giving the Los Angeles Lakers the Pacific Division title.

On a night when matchups for seven of eight first-round playoff series were determined, Bryant provided the night's best drama by making two clutch 3-pointers - one at the end of regulation, the other on the final play of the game.

The second 3-pointer gave Los Angeles a 105-104 victory over Portland.

Combined with Sacramento's 97-91 loss to Golden State, the Lakers won the Pacific Division and the conference's No. 2 seed. They will face Houston in the first round of the playoffs.

Sacramento dropped to fourth and will face Dallas.

In the Eastern Conference, Milwaukee gave up a late 3-pointer to Jalen Rose and lost to the Toronto Raptors 89-87 to drop from fourth place to sixth in the East.

''That's my dawg!'' Miami guard Dwyane Wade hollered in the Heat's locker room in South Florida, watching the game in Wisconsin on television.

Moments later, Milwaukee's final shot missed, and Heat players swapped high-fives as though they'd won the game themselves.

The Bucks' loss, coupled with Miami's 96-84 victory over New Jersey 30 minutes earlier, meant the Heat won the No. 4 seed and will open a best-of-seven series at home Sunday night against fifth-seeded New Orleans.

Milwaukee dropped to sixth, falling into a first-round matchup with the third-seeded Detroit Pistons.

The Bucks needed just one win in their final three games against New Orleans, Cleveland and Toronto. They blew fourth-quarter leads in each of them.

''It's definitely frustrating to know that all we had to do was win one game,'' Bucks guard Michael Redd said. ''We were doing so wonderfully, winning four straight. (Now) we lost three straight.''

New Orleans, which defeated Washington 94-78, will be the fifth seed, and the New York Knicks get the seventh seed and a matchup with their cross-river rivals, the New Jersey Nets.

The East's other postseason matchup is top-seeded Indiana against Boston, with Game 1 set for Saturday afternoon. The Nets-Knicks series also opens Saturday.

Minnesota locked up the No. 1 seed in the West with a 107-90 victory over Memphis, setting up a first-round series against Denver.

''We know going in no one is giving us a shot at winning. We'll just have to go in there and try to earn some respect,'' Nuggets center Marcus Camby said.

The defending champion San Antonio Spurs will be the third seed and will face Memphis, a team that defeated them three times during the regular season.

The Lakers-Rockets and Spurs-Grizzlies series were expected to begin Saturday, with the Kings-Mavericks, Bucks-Pistons, Heat-Hornets and Timberwolves-Nuggets series starting Sunday.