The Heat, who qualified for the playoffs with the eighth seed in the East Conference and only after the play-ins, now lead the series 3-1 against the Celtics and are one win away from reaching the Denver Nuggets to fight for the ring. Eliminated Bucks and Knicks, they have so far dominated the series with Boston which, after the 3-0, has kept it alive and will try to overturn it as never happened in the history of the playoffs. For Miami it is yet another underdog masterpiece by coach Spoelstra, with an absolute protagonist on the pitch like Jimmy Butler, histrionic pack leader of a franchise that won the last title in 2013 with the James-Wade-Bosh triad
Gara 4 they lost 116-99, thus allowing them to lengthen the series and keep Boston alive: you can overturn the prediction, but doing it with the audacity of a 4-0 win over the Celtics would perhaps have been too much, and so i Miami Heat, when in Italy it will be the first hours of Friday they will return to the TD Garden on 3-1 to complete the job – without having to risk any game 6 and game 7 – and earn the Finals against Denver, who has already done it by peremptorily putting end to the Lakers dream. After all, no one has ever overturned a 3-0 in the history of the Finals and to close the team of coach Spoelstra can approach the challenge with a certain serenity. As? “We will do the same things as always. We’ll listen to music, have a few beers, maybe some wine. It’s not like you have to think about basketball all the time.”
L‘call not to worry comes directly from Jimmy Butler, pack leader of a team that is pocketing the finals of the East Conference and that, on the eve of the series with Boston, was credited by ESPN Analytics with just a 3% chance of reaching the Finals. After all, the Heat’s season had been anything but excellent: seventh in the Conference standings, and therefore forced to go through the play-ins, they lost to the Hawks in the first play-off and then qualified with the eighth seed by beating the Bulls , in the playoffs they managed first to eliminate (4-1) even the Bucks of Giannis Antetokounmpo, despite the injuries of Tyler Herro (double fracture of the middle and ring fingers of the right hand, but he could return in the Finals) and Victor Oladipo (rupture of the tendon patellar), then the Knicks closing the series on 4-2. Then here are the Celtics, with the powerful comeback in race 1 and the more than dominant victories in race 2 and race 3. Bam Adebayo, Gabe Vincent and Duncan Robinson had their way, Kyle Lowry did it when necessary, but the scene if the Butler is taken more than anything else, a real playoff animal, madly provoked and revealed vengeful provocateur (in Horford and Mazzulla’s worst nightmares, Celtics coach and almost his age), charismatic and emotional leader, leader of a team in which no one believed but which silenced everyone.
Lhe last time the Heat reached the Finals was 2020, the year of the pandemic, in the Orlando bubble. The ring was won by the Lakers imposing themselves 4-2 in the series: there was LeBron James, in Los Angeles, that LeBron James who had shrugged off the uncomfortable and stupid label of loser that someone had paired him with Miami in 2012 , the year of the second title for the Heat and the first for him, then repeated in 2013, triumphs signed by LeBron, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh. Another world, but always with Erik Spoelstra on the bench: in the playoff run three years ago, still as an underdog, he made a masterpiece which only needed a happy ending, but this time he has probably outdone himself.
2023-05-24 12:59:21
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