MIAMI -- Strange as it sounds, missing shots worked wonders for the Miami Heat.
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basketball eternity -- without the ball down the stretch, the two-time defending
NBA champions would soon find themselves two wins from another trip to the
Eastern Conference finals. LeBron James scored 22 points, Chris Bosh added 18
and the Heat pulled away late to beat the Nets 94-82 on Thursday night, taking a
2-0 lead in the East semifinals. "To be able to get some stops like that at the
end, and then execute, its something thats critical in this series," Heat coach
Erik Spoelstra said. Dwyane Wade had 14 and Ray Allen scored 13 for the Heat,
who tied a franchise record with their eighth straight playoff victory. Theyll
go for No. 9 on Saturday night, when the best-of-seven series shifts to Brooklyn
for Game 3. For the second straight game, Miami had five players in double
figures. "Thats what our team is all about," James said. "We dont really care
who scores." Mirza Teletovic set a Nets playoff record with six 3-pointers, on
his way to a 20-point night off the bench. Shaun Livingston scored 15, and
Paul Pierce and Joe Johnson each added 13 more for the Nets. Deron Williams was
0 for 9 from the field, the worst shooting night of his career. "That one hurt,"
Nets coach Jason Kidd said. "We were right there. We gave ourselves, on the
road, an opportunity against the world champs. We let the game slip away. That
one possession when they got four offensive rebounds, it didnt lose the game for
us." It was three rebounds, but no matter. It was still a backbreaker for the
Nets. Teletovic scored inside with 3:39 left to get Brooklyn within eight. For
the next 100 seconds, Miami kept possession. James missed a 3-pointer, and Allen
-- who led Miami with eight rebounds -- manoeuvred his way around four Nets to
grab the rebound. James missed again, and Wade grabbed that board. James missed
a layup, but Bosh controlled that board. And finally, almost mercifully, Wade
found James for a layup with 1:59 remaining. The lead was 10, the outcome
decided. "That was a killer," Johnson said. Wade had just six points in the
games first 37 minutes, then eight more in the next three, setting the tone for
a grind-it-out fourth quarter from Miami. "Youve got to do the little things
until you get your opportunity," said Wade, who finished with seven rebounds and
seven assists. "Thats what I was able to do." The Heat led 79-77 when Brooklyns
Marcus Thornton missed a 3-pointer with 6:21 left -- which, had it gone down,
would have had the Heat facing a fourth-quarter deficit for the first time in
these playoffs. But it missed. And thats when the Heat found separation for the
first time all night, at the most critical point. James was in trouble with less
than 4 seconds on the shot clock and still found a way to get a bounce pass out
to Mario Chalmers in the left corner for a 3-pointer. James passed on the
fadeaway, deciding it would be a bad shot, and made the decision to send the
ball to Chalmers. "Just get it there," James said he was thinking. He got the
pass there, Chalmers made the shot, and after a stop on the ensuing Brooklyn
trip, Allen hit from the same spot as Chalmers for an 85-77 lead. "As the game
wore on we started picking up the pace," Allen said. "We started to getting how
we play basketball." Teletovic kept the Nets afloat. He made his first four
3-pointers, needing less than six minutes to do so after checking in for the
first time late in the opening quarter. He had 15 points on 5-for-7 shooting
from beyond the arc by halftime alone, a boost that Brooklyn definitely needed.
And his shots came at big times. Of Teletovics five 3s in the first half, three
broke ties. His sixth 3 of the game, late in the third, tied the game at 61. But
in the end, Miami was too much. "This series is far from over," Johnson said.
NOTES: Trying to save a loose ball in the third quarter, James leaped over a row
of people sitting along one sideline, then ran about 10 more rows deep into the
stands. ... Mason Plumlee had three first-half fouls for the Nets, matching the
entire Heat total. Brooklyn didnt take any free throws until the third quarter.
... Miami went scoreless for the games first 3:32, its longest drought to open a
home game since Feb. 26, 2005 -- 443 contests ago. ... Nets F Kevin Garnett, who
went scoreless in Game 1, had four points but led everyone with 12 rebounds.
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15-day disabled list, his return from a strained oblique that cost him the first
six weeks of the regular season, it announced Sergio Santos would be placed on
the disabled list on Monday with discomfort in his right forearm.
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recurring swelling and pain in his knees related to torn meniscus he suffered as
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tackle.CHICAGO -- On Friday night, the Los Angeles Kings were in Anaheim for
Game 7 of their second-round series against the top-seeded Ducks. On Saturday,
they travelled 1,700 miles to Chicago on the eve of Game 1 of the Western
Conference finals. Not much rest for Los Angeles, but certainly better than the
alternative. Watch Game 1 on TSN and TSN GO, today at 3pm et/Noon pt. The Kings
will take on the Blackhawks on Sunday afternoon in a short turnaround from their
series-clinching 6-2 victory over Anaheim. It is a rematch of last years Western
Conference finals, when the Blackhawks won in five games on the way to their
second Stanley Cup title in four seasons. "Im not sure about the energy part of
it," Kings coach Darryl Sutter said Saturday, "but I know how we handle losses
and how we handle wins and how we handle travel, so you know theyre going to be
honest in their preparation. You can trust that part of it. "Itll be certainly
about putting forth their best effort, I know that." Los Angeles is making its
third consecutive appearance in the Western Conference finals after the Kings
rallied past San Jose and Anaheim in the first two series. The Sharks had a 3-0
lead in the first round, and the Ducks led 3-2 in their series against the
Kings. Chicago has been waiting for its next opponent since it beat Minnesota
2-1 in overtime in Game 6 on Tuesday night. The Blackhawks had a similar break
after they eliminated St. Louis in the first round. "I think the days off helps
every team this time of year, get some rest, allows you to prepare for your
opponent," Blackhawks forward Patrick Sharp said. "At the end of the day, once
that puck drops, I think both teams are going to be ready to play." The break
also provided more time for Chicago forward Andrew Shaw to get healthy. The
tenacious centre missed the final five games of the Wild seriies with an
apparent right leg injury, but he skated before the Blackhawks practiced on
Saturday and could return after Game 1 against the Kings.
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defencemen Robyn Regehr and Willie Mitchell. Mitchell has missed eight games,
but is skating again. Sutter said he could return against Chicago. "You have a
muscle injury that was related to a knee injury," Sutter said after practice at
the teams facility in El Segundo, California. "Cant (be) one of those deals
where you get a guy for five minutes. You need to know that you get him for the
whole game." The status of Shaw, Regehr and Mitchell could be a factor in a
matchup of the NHLs second-highest scoring team in Chicago and the stingiest
team in the league in Los Angeles. "Theyre obviously defending champs, and we
want to take that back," Kings forward Jarret Stoll said. "We know what it takes
to win and weve tasted that and it tastes pretty good. So we want to get it back
from them." Los Angeles was the defending champion when it took on Chicago in
the playoffs last year. But the banged-up Kings were unable to keep up with the
high-flying Blackhawks, who got a hat trick from Patrick Kane in the clinching
double-overtime victory in Game 5. Chicago is 9-2 against Los Angeles over the
past two years, outscoring the Kings 35-24. "Theyre playing really well right
now so weve got to be focused on what theyve been doing the last couple series,"
Blackhawks defenceman Brent Seabrook said. "Theyre never out of a game or a
series. If we get up, we have to step on their throats. If were down, we have to
work like hell to get back. "But at the end of the day we have to play our game
and focus on what weve been doing well throughout the playoffs, get better at
that and be the team that we can be."
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