Miami Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel, a regular at Heat games this season, tried to get the pregame crowd going by waving one of the giveaway towels. Vincent's previous career best was 28, set in a Jan. … Shaquille O’Neal, at the game as part of the TNT broadcast crew, greeted former teammate (and now Heat executive) Alonzo Mourning and got a long ovation when introduced during a second-quarter time out. Butler’s steal with 7:17 left in the first quarter was the 2,000th in Heat postseason history. Heat: Robinson made five 3-pointers and now has 124 in his Heat postseason career, passing LeBron James (123) for the most in Miami history. … Smart appeared to throw a punch in the third quarter, but missed and after review referees determined he did not deserve a flagrant foul or a technical (which would have been his second of the night). … The Heat encourage fans to wear white to playoff games, and Tatum also arrived in an all-white suit.
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8 seed on a magical playoff run in South Florida - will try to take a 3-0 lead in their East finals series against the Carolina Hurricanes.Ĭeltics: Robert Williams made his first shot, meaning he made 12 straight to start the series.
Or maybe they were saving it for hockey on Monday night, when the Florida Panthers - another No. The lead was so big, and there was so much time left, that the sellout crowd of 20,088 actually was subdued a bit by the time it was over. The rest was all Miami, which immediately answered with a 28-7 run to open a 33-point lead at 89-56, which had the building rolling. There was barely one attempted by the Celtics, for that matter.īoston got within 61-49 when Marcus Smart had a three-point play on the opening possession of the second half. There was no rally required in Game 3 by the Heat. Mindful that Boston’s Al Horford directed a timeout signal toward the Miami bench during Game 1 when the Celtics were on a second-quarter spurt to build a comfortable lead, Butler did the same to Horford as the Heat were running away in the third quarter of Game 3.īesides, the Heat rallied to win Game 1 anyway. 2-seeded Celtics a second consecutive East crown.ĭo NFL players get fined for holding out? Yup, here's how muchĪnd the Heat let Boston know how much they were enjoying this one. 8 seed in the Heat, a team that struggled just to get into the playoffs, a team that was less than 3 minutes away from being eliminated in the play-in tournament, getting past top-seeded Milwaukee in five games, then fifth-seeded New York in six, and now on the brink of denying the No.
Of all the 3-0 series leads in NBA history, this one might be the most unexpected - a No. There’s never been a season where both conference finals ended in sweeps it happened in 1957 in the division finals immediately preceding the title series, when Boston beat Syracuse 3-0 and St. And now, the East finals could end Tuesday. The Western Conference finals could end Monday Denver leads that series against the Los Angeles Lakers 3-0. The NBA Finals start June 1, and the way things are going, that might mean the league is about to go a few days without games. Sign up for NBC South Florida newsletters. Get South Florida local news, weather forecasts and entertainment stories to your inbox.
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