The Heat will return, three years later, with the NBA finals, the seventh in its history, where the Denver Nuggets await it, after winning in the night from Monday to Tuesday in Boston (103-84), thanks to Caleb Martin and Jimmy Butler, in the seventh decisive game of their series.
Miami is not only on the verge of a fourth title, after those gleaned in 2006, 2012 and 2013 (failures in 2011, 2014 and 2020), but can achieve what no team has yet achieved in history: to be crowned champion having been seeded No. 8, moreover, after having to go through play-offs to reach the playoffs. In 1999, the New York Knicks, also eighth in the East, had already managed to reach the finals, but then fell to the San Antonio Spurs, crowned.
23 POINTS for Caleb Martin!
The @MiamiHeat leads by 10 units at the end of the 3rd QT, 76-66 #NBAPlayoffs pic.twitter.com/XL7Kj4LXqA
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No doubt the Heat dreams of another scenario, carried by the energy of the warriors that are given does not give winners and who finally topple mountains. After the Bucks of Giannis Antetokounmpo, the Knicks of Jalen Brunson and the Celtics of Jayson Tatum, they will play at even higher altitude against the Nuggets, literally - Denver, nicknamed "Mile High City", rises to 1,500 m - as figuratively, with Jokic and his gang who unceremoniously dismissed the Lakers of LeBron James (4-0).
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