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Miami Heat – LeBron James Sweeps Without Dwyane Wade
Maybe he was envious of how dominant Kevin Durant was without his #2, so LeBron James went out without Dwyane Wade and didn’t let that really hurt him, leading the Miami Heat to another double digit win and earn their first playoff sweep in the Big Three era.
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Miami Heat – Ray Allen Superior to LeBron James for Once
While Dwyane Wade was having one of his worst performances ever, and LeBron James was having just an ordinary day, it was Ray Allen who stole the spotlight with more than just setting the NBA career playoff record for 3-pointers, but actually player better than anyone on the Miami Heat as the favorites to retain the NBA title took a 3-0 lead in their first round series.
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LeBron James & Miami Heat Look Like NBA Champions
Maybe it was Brandon Jennings with his deceleration that the Milwaukee Bucks will win the series, or maybe it’s the fact that the Miami Heat and LeBron James are too good for almost anyone in the NBA right now, especially the team they’ve been paired up with to open their title-defense playoff run.
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Paul Pierce is Still Angry that Ray Allen Left the Boston Celtics for the Miami Heat
Each side needs to have its villains and heroes. For the Boston Celtics, the Miami Heat are the enemy, the team that poached away not just the title of most dominant team in the East, but also one of their best players in Ray Allen, who wanted to leave for less money because of the title prospects, and because of Doc Rivers picking Rajon Rondo over him. Paul Pierce, if you’re surprised or not, is still angry with him.
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Miami Heat – LeBron James Back to Humiliating Rivals
While an 8 point win isn’t exactly a humiliation, LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Dwayne Wade weren’t about to ruin a chance to finally clinch a season series against their biggest rivals, getting a lot of help, or actually being helpful to Ray Allen and Rashard Lewis, who surprisingly, or not, took a lot of load off the tired legs and shoulders of the Big Three.
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Miami Heat – LeBron James Makes the NBA Look Unfair Sometimes
When LeBron James is this good, you really do wonder if there is any parity at all in the NBA, as he didn’t even need Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade, instead getting a bit of scoring help from Norris Cole and Ray Allen, but not too much, as the Miami Heat continued their late-season cruise towards securing home court advantage all through the playoffs.
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Miami Heat – Chris Bosh Steps Out of the Shadows With Game Winner
Before deciding to take his talents to South Beach and join forced with Dwyane Wade and LeBron James, there were quite a few who called Chris Bosh the best power forward in the NBA. It’s easy to forget just how good he is if given the reins to lead an offense, but without the two bigger stars on the floor, the Miami Heat did just that, and were repaid with a game winning shot that people forgot Bosh can pull off.
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Miami Heat – Getting Easier as the Streak Grows Longer
After surviving a couple of close calls in their attempt to tie and break a 40 year old NBA record, the Miami Heat are finding that later wins are coming a little bit easier, with LeBron James pulling more and more “almost” triple doubles, his personal expertise, as the group around him, even without Dwyane Wade, continues to more than make up for the superstar taking another rest to heal his hurting body.
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Miami Heat – LeBron James Couldn’t Miss Even if he Tried
It’s nothing we haven’t seen before, but LeBron James brought back the can’t-miss kind of basketball to his arsenal on another, rather comfortable this time, win for the Miami Heat, as the winning streak record from more than 40 years ago doesn’t look all that unreachable anymore at the current rate of things.
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Miami Heat – LeBron James Won’t Let The Winning Streak End
Down by 27 points, midway through the third quarter, the Miami Heat simply woke up a little later than usual to add another win to their franchise record winning streak, now improved to 24 games, as he orchestrated an impressive comeback, capped off with a triple double that gave us and everyone else another reason to set him apart from the rest of the NBA.