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Miami Heat – LeBron James in the Real Must Win Game of the NBA Finals
NBA moments don’t get bigger than a game 7 in the finals, and for LeBron James, in touching distance of his second NBA title ring, it’s about championships, greatness and legacy, needing the right kind of night from Ray Allen, Chris Bosh, Dwyane Wade, Mario Chalmers, Mike Miller and everyone who is going to be involved in order to come out of this one looking like a winner.
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On LeBron James Being Clutch and His Triple Doubles
A triple double is usually taken as an example to measure excellence in basketball, but when so many of them happen during losses, you can’t help but feel it’s another statistic being greatly overrated. LeBron James is a great basketball player, one of the best of all-time, but the triple doubles aren’t the measuring stick we should be using.
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Manu Ginobili Uses LeBron James to Prove He’s a Dirty Player
The Miami Heat are an easy team to hate, but the lack of backlash on Manu Ginobili purposely elbowing LeBron James in the throat is a little bit ridiculous. Because people were actually considering LeBron James flopped on that play, and it’s pretty safe to assume that if either him or Dwyane Wade (who already had his phantom-elbow moment in this postseason) there would be quite an uproar about it.
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San Antonio Spurs – Tim Duncan Too Tired to Make Up For Manu Ginobili & Tony Parker Being Terrible
There’s only so much Tim Duncan can do. After a heroic first half in which he tortured Chris Bosh in the low post, age and fatigue finally kicked in. The problem? When the game was on the line in the fourth quarter Gregg Popovich didn’t have him on the floor, and in overtime, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili messed up badly enough for Duncan’s great game 6 of the NBA finals not really matter.
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Miami Heat – LeBron James Comes Out on Top in a Night of Highs & Lows
There’s something misleading about triple doubles, but LeBron James is more than numbers. The final plays for the Miami Heat as they evened the NBA finals for a third time came from Ray Allen and Chris Bosh, but it was James in his fourth quarter revival that made it all possible, once again bringing a different definition to clutch as he managed to almost ruin it all before the happy ending.
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NBA Finals, Game 6 – LeBron James Needs to Thank Chris Bosh & Ray Allen
Before we reached overtime, this was about to be the story of how LeBron James messed up in the clutch, and Tony Parker coming out of nowhere. But James hit one big three to take the Miami Heat out of the grave, and Ray Allen hit a game tying three pointer to send the game into overtime. In it, it came down to playing good defense, and Chris Bosh with two huge clutch blocks on Tony Parker and Danny Green.
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Teams That Came Back From 2-3 Down to Win the NBA Finals
What are the chances the Miami Heat comes back from 2-3 down in their NBA Finals series against the San Antonio Spurs? Despite playing the last two games at home, they’re not too good, as only four teams have ever managed to turn that kind of deficit around in games 6 & 7 in the 2-3-2 format.
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NBA Finals – Spurs vs Heat Game 6 Predictions
It seems like every game in this series is a must-win one for the Miami Heat, but on the verge of ending up as the losers in the 2013 NBA Finals, the game 6 situation is really that, while the San Antonio Spurs are once again riding the confidence wave, believing that they won’t need a 7th clash to clinch their fifth NBA championship.
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San Antonio Spurs – Manu Ginobili & Tony Parker Can’t Fade Away Now
There are a lot of heroes in the performance the San Antonio Spurs are putting on in the NBA Finals, with Danny Green and his three point shooting probably being the most obvious of them, but the key to their wins has always been about the man making the decisions with the ball, which was Tony Parker in the first two games and finally getting Manu Ginobili to join him in the last one.
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Miami Heat – LeBron James Needs Erik Spoelstra More Than Ever
No more excuses, and no more losses. The Miami Heat are on the verge of leaving the NBA finals empty handed for a second time in three seasons, and if there was ever a time for LeBron James to not only rise and bring out his absolute best but to get the same from his coach, Erik Spoelstra, it’s now.