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Miami Heat – LeBron James Wasted Away a Rare Ray Allen Night
Ray Allen has struggled being the vital piece he was projected to be for most of the postseason. Finally, on a night in which his shooting was at its best since the beginning of the NBA finals, both LeBron James and Dwyane Wade made too many mistakes that were too costly to overcome.
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Miami Heat – Dwyane Wade Breathes Life Into LeBron James & Chris Bosh
Erik Spoelstra moved back to small-ball and shooters lineup for the entire game, giving LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh the chance to look like a real big three, combining to score 85 points, leadintg the Miami Heat to 109-93 win in Game 4 of the NBA finals, tying the series at 2 a piece.
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Miami Heat – LeBron James Makes Mario Chalmers Look Like a Star
The Miami Heat were bound to look much better in game 2, even though LeBron James didn’t have the offensive explosion people expected him too. Instead, he did everything else, which started with excellent defense, and continued with hardly making mistakes on offense, making Mario Chalmers and Ray Allen look the way they’re supposed to.
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Miami Heat – LeBron James Left on His Own by Dwyane Wade & Chris Bosh
The moment the Miami Heat become a team that has only LeBron James to rely on offensively, they turn away from everything that turned them into the NBA champions a year ago. Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade have evaporated from the series, and suddenly game 7 seems like a much tougher hurdle to get over, as the team looks more dysfunctional than it has been all season long.
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Miami Heat – LeBron James Needs to Play Like He’s Desperate
Feeling the wall on your back brings out the best in some players. LeBron James showed he’s one of them in last year’s playoff, and that same kind of desperation pushed him into a massive performance in game 5 of the conference finals, with the Miami Heat needing more of the same thing from their MVP to close out the series.
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NBA Flopping – LeBron James, David West & Lance Stephenson Fined
After the NBA has been criticized for stopping their flopping-fine policy in the NBA playoffs, the league reminded everyone big brother is still watching, by delivering three $5000 fines for flops in the same game, game 4 between the Miami Heat and the Indiana Pacers, handing them out to LeBron James, David West and Lance Stephenson.
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Miami Heat – LeBron James Exhausted From Guarding David West & Roy Hibbert
If the Miami Heat think that they lost game 4 because of referees, they need to check again. LeBron James was absent for large chunks of the night, spending too much time guarding David West and Roy Hibbert on one end, not having enough energy to be dominant consistently on the other, dragging the entire team and their offensive fluidity down along with him.
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Miami Heat Benefit From LeBron James Being a Different Kind of Superstar
The Miami Heat aren’t the best team in the NBA for the last couple of years, winning 46 of their last 49 games just because LeBron James is a superstar. It’s because he’s the kind of superstar no one has even seen before.
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Miami Heat – LeBron James Finds Answers by Lowering His Head and Grinding it Out
It’s been well established that for LeBron James and the Miami Heat to succeed in the playoffs and win NBA titles (which they’ve already done once), they won’t be able to turn away from winning by scoring in the paint. Dwyane Wade only started helping in the fourth quarter, but it was enough to put a lid on the Eastern conference semifinals series, closing it out in five games, as the big three advance to their third conference finals in three years.
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Miami Heat – LeBron James Needs Only One Good Half
Revenge and evening the series on their minds, the Miami Heat went to work and early and got the job done quickly. LeBron James did all of his damage and scoring in the first half, leaving some of the best assists we’ve seen this postseason for the very long garbage time, while Ray Allen and others got a chance for the franchise to finish with their biggest playoff win ever.