The runners-up in the NBA Finals over the past few years have started the following season in a deep malaise. After falling in the 2018 Finals, the Cleveland Cavaliers lost 16 of their first 20 games to start the 2018-19 season. Likewise, after dropping the 2019 Finals, the Golden State Warriors opened the next season […]
chris.herring (Chris Herring, senior sportswriter): So almost an entire year after we started this bizarre season, we now potentially head into the final game of it. The Miami Heat, coming off a desperate Game 3 victory, were within striking distance of tying the series during a pivotal Game 4. But the Lakers closed the door […]
Coming off a masterful Game 3 performance that vaulted the Miami Heat back into the NBA Finals, Jimmy Butler had it going again early on in Game 4. He was aggressive out of the gate, knocking down all five of his first-quarter shots and collecting 11 points, two rebounds and two assists. What made Butler’s […]
It would have been very easy to write off the Miami Heat at different points on Sunday. Some likely counted them out as soon as the Heat announced that injured star forward Bam Adebayo and guard Goran Dragić, their second-leading scorer, would be forced to miss Game 3. Others likely thought they were done when […]
Miami Heat forward Duncan Robinson was among the best 3-point shooters in the NBA this season, but it wasn’t until play started in the bubble that reporters and analysts began referring to him as a “specialist.” With the Heat facing a 1-0 deficit to the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Finals and likely down […]