NBA: A masterful LeBron returns the Lakers to the Finals a decade later
The great offensive work of pivot
Bam Adebayo,
who contributed a double-double of 32 points, 14 rebounds - the best record of the season - and five assists, was the key that allowed the Miami Heat to beat this Sunday by
125-113 to the Boston Celtics
in the sixth game of the Eastern Conference finals they won 4-2 to the best of seven.
The victory assured the Heat a return to the NBA Finals for the
first time since 2014
when they lost to the San Antonio Spurs (1-4) and
will face the Los Angeles Lakers for the title,
who last night they were proclaimed champions of the Western Conference after eliminating the Denver Nuggets (4-1).
The Finals series, which will be
the sixth in the history of the Heat,
and the thirty-second of the Lakers, will begin next Wednesday on the same stage of the Orlando bubble.
Along with Adebayo, forward
Jimmy Butler
contributed 22 points and eight assists that also left him a key player in the victory of the Heat, who had six players with double-digit numbers.
But it would be the reserves, the rookie
Tyler Herro,
who contributed 19 points, and the veteran
Andre Iguodala,
who reached 15 with an almost perfect performance - he missed a personal one - in everything he shot to the basket, they also became a surprise factor winner of the Heat.
The Miami team played
its best game in the offensive section,
achieving 56 (45-80) percent shooting from the field, 48% (13-27) from triples, and 85% (22-26). ) from the staff line.
Iguodala finished with
5 of 5 in the field goals,
including 4 of 4 triples, and hit 1 of 2 from the personnel line, in addition to capturing three rebounds, recovering two balls and giving a personal, in 28 minutes that saw action, being the winning factor of surprise for the Heat.
The Miami team was always
in front of the scoreboard and the rhythm of the game
from the beginning to the beginning of the fourth period when the Celtics took the lead on the scoreboard, but this time they did not allow the comeback or the final reaction of the Celtics to the take control of the game again with a great defensive game.
Guard
Jaylen Brown
scored 26 points and forward
Jayson Tatum
double-obtained a 24 and 11 assists, the highest of his career, as leaders of the Celtics.
While guard
Marcus Smart
and point guard
Kemba Walker
each scored 20 points with the Celtics, who lost the Eastern Conference finals for the third time in the past four seasons.
Miami was down by six early in the quarter before regaining control.
But a 6-0 streak - Herro had the last five of those points, needing just 31 seconds to do so -
allowed the Heat to tie at 96.
Boston took the lead
twice more, with Adebayo responding both times, first with a dunk, then with a three-point play and 6:16 minutes to go that led him to hit the ground in celebration.
Adebayo's action was like a premonition of what was going to happen the rest of the way, as
the Heat never let themselves take the advantage away again.
Herro had a pair of baskets in another 9-0 streak that put the Heat up on the scoreboard by 10 points, Adebayo found Butler for a layup and a 116-102 partial lead that everyone on the Heat bench was up for. foot.
The Miami team is the only NBA franchise with six Finals appearances in the last 15 years.
They are looking for
their fourth title,
and this opportunity was not easy.
The Heat went 5-for-5 from outside the perimeter in the first quarter, but otherwise struggled again from beyond the arc in the first half.
They were 6 of 14 from deep in the first 24 minutes,
Boston was 11 of 23 before the break
and the Heat took a 62-60 lead at the break.
Iguodala's fourth 3-pointer, over the same number of attempts, with 4:20 to play in the third, put the Hea
t up eight points,
before Brown scored five on Boston's 10-2 streak that forced the tie.
Slovenian point guard
Goran Dragic,
who finished with 13 points and seven assists, posted a layup from the lead on Miami's last shot of the third period and went 88-86 with 12 minutes to go.
The Celtics scored 10 of the first 12 points of the fourth quarter, surviving a scare there too when
Brown suffered a nasty knockdown
after scoring in transition.
Brown thought Butler touched him on the legs, no foul was called, and after Celtics medical personnel checked
his left knee,
the Boston team's star guard stayed in the game.
But he could no longer prevent the Heat from continuing to lead the score on their way to ensuring victory and a pass to the NBA Finals.
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