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Now that’s how you start a playoffs if you’re LeBron James, barely missing a shot, leading all players in assists and rebounds and then summing up the night’s story not with a rafter-shaking dunk but with something lighter. More fun. By flapping your wings. Chris “Birdman” Andersen was over there, under the basket, having just [...]
INDIANAPOLIS— Dwyane Wade wanted three days off, and the opportunity to watch the Boston Celtics and Philadelphia 76ers sweat out Saturday’s Game 7 of these Eastern Conference semifinals from the comfort of his couch. So he set the tone with 26 first-half points. And the Miami Heat kept going from there. Even without Chris Bosh. [...]
– Amid Tuesday’s elbows and shoves and fouls and every brand of playoff blood you wanted to see – bad, boiled and even spilled above Dwyane Wade’s right eye – a prettier, series-tilting event occurred. The Heat showed up. All of them, for once. This wasn’t just about the Big Two. Oh, LeBron James and [...]
MIAMI— The hotshot point guard was hot. And making shots. No, not Kyrie Irving, the Cleveland Cavaliers’ Rookie of the Year front-runner. Rather Mario Chalmers, the Miami Heat’s lineup afterthought who quietly has positioned himself among the NBA’s 3-point elite this season. Converting four 3-pointers on a night when lineup balance was needed against a [...]
MIAMI— Midway through the third quarter, with his team’s lethargy reaching the point where he was forced to call plays from the bench, Erik Spoelstra informed his team to run, “C-Rip.” Most of the way in this one, the Heat played like “C-rap.” The difference between this slop and similar slop Sunday against the Milwaukee [...]
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