MIAMI -- Making one free throw at the end of regulation wasnt enough for the Miami Heat, nor was making just one again at the end of the first overtime.
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all the difference for Minnesota. Corey Brewer hit one of two free throws with
1.8 seconds left after getting a call on an awkward-looking play, and that was
enough to help the Timberwolves escape a three-hour thriller with a 122-121
victory over the Heat on Friday night. "Great call," Brewer said. "He pushed my
back." Kevin Love scored 28 points and grabbed 11 rebounds for Minnesota, which
got 24 from Chase Budinger, 15 from Gorgui Dieng and 13 apiece from JJ Barea and
Ricky Rubio, who also added 14 assists. Referee Ken Mauer called the last foul
on Miamis Norris Cole, who was guarding Brewer near the basket as a pass was
coming his way. "You just want to see the players decide it at the end," Heat
coach Erik Spoelstra said calmly after the game. "I didnt get a good look at the
replay. ... Still, we had many more opportunities to close that game out."
Ray Allen missed a wild jumper as time expired for Miami, which blew a chance to
move two games clear of Indiana in the loss column atop the Eastern Conference
standings. "We gutted one out," Love said. "This was a fun win." LeBron James
scored 34 points for the Heat, who got a season-high 24 from Mario Chalmers and
24 more from Chris Bosh, including a tying 3-pointer with 10.8 seconds left in
the second overtime. James said he wanted the last shot. Its the second straight
end-of-game play where Miami didnt go to James when trailing. "Its a little
frustrating," James said, wearing a Pharrell Williams-esque mountain hat at his
locker after the game. "Im a little over it right now, but right after the game
I was a little frustrated." Miami went 24 for 30 from the line, but three of
those six misses proved particularly costly. James missed one of two free throws
with 16.2 seconds to go, and Chalmers missed the first of two on his trips to
the line in the final seconds of both regulation and the first overtime. "We had
our chances," Spoelstra said. "Either a key stop, one less turnover, a free
throw here or there, we had our opportunities. They made one last play." Said
Chalmers, who was 8 for 10 from the line: "I missed the two most important
ones." The Heat (52-23, .693) remained percentage points ahead of Indiana
(53-24, .688), which lost earlier Friday night at Toronto, 102-94. Regulation
and the first overtime ended in virtually the same fashion. With Minnesota up by
one and Miami in desperation mode, Chalmers would make the second of two free
throws -- with 3.9 seconds left in the fourth, then with 1.9 seconds left in the
first extra session -- to tie the game, followed by the Heat watching a
potential winning jumper by Love bounce off the rim. But Love hit a clutch
3-pointer in the second OT, helping swing the tide one last time. "Hes one of a
kind," Rubio said. "We try to look for him all the time. He made tough shots. He
gave us the game." There were nine lead changes in the entirety of regulation.
There were 10 in the first OT alone. Budingers fifth 3-pointer of the night put
Minnesota up 107-106 late in the first extra period. Bosh fought for an
offensive rebound on the next Miami possession, wound up getting fouled and
coolly making a pair of free throws to give the Heat a one-point edge. Minnesota
called its next play for Love, who backed Bosh down and connected on a jump hook
to reclaim that one-point lead. But Chalmers wound up drawing another foul, hit
the second shot and off to double-overtime they went. By then, it was obvious
that whichever team lost was going to have a long night of lamenting missed
opportunities. "To get a win like this on the road against the world champions,
it says a lot," Minnesota coach Rick Adelman said. NOTES: Allen returned from a
five-game absence caused by the flu. ... Miami was again without Dwyane Wade
(hamstring) and Greg Oden (back spasms). ... It was Rubios first time playing at
Miami. ... Minnesota was again without C Nikola Pekovic (ankle), who has missed
21 of the Timberwolves last 31 games. ... A foul by Budinger saved Minnesota two
points late in the third; he hit James on a play where Allen made a 3-pointer.
After review, Allens 3 was correctly taken off the board and James only made one
of his two ensuing free throws.
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http://www.officialflamesauthority.com/t-shirts-c-2/ . The Giants chances of winning the division were dealt a serious blow by the
three-game sweep at the hands of the lowly Padres. The Giants open a three-game
series at Dodger Stadium on Monday night. San Francisco is still in good shape
to clinch a wild-card berth, although it dropped into a tie with Pittsburgh in
the race for the top spot.BRISTOL, Tenn. - If two rain delays totalling more
than five hours werent enough, the water-logged race at Bristol Motor Speedway
had a battery fly out of a car and spread a toilet paper-looking substance all
over the track. And that wasnt even the strangest occurrence Sunday. Moments
before Carl Edwards closed in on what should have been the white flag lap, the
caution lights were accidentally turned on from the flag stand. As NASCAR tried
to figure out what was going on, the sky opened up and prevented the race from
resuming. Edwards was awarded the win under caution — a victory he was headed to
before the mishap — and celebrated his third career win at Bristol with his
trademark backflip on the slick concrete. "Oh, man, I thought, This is stupid. I
shouldnt do this ... Its awfully glossy. It might be slick," he said. "I didnt
want to stick it perfectly and have my feet go that way and break my arm on the
concrete. That would have been terrible. I was actually really nervous about
that." NASCAR vice-president of competition Robin Pemberton said a person in the
flag stand leaned on the manual override switch and that turned on the caution
lights. Six seconds after the lights were turned on, the flag man waved the
yellow flag. Pemberton said that the flag man can wave the caution flag without
a call from series officials in the tower if they see a proper reason. "We were
scanning cars and spotters, and theres some of us in the tower that only heard
it after the teams were talking about it because we were looking at other things
around the racetrack," Pemberton said. Said Edwards: "No harm, no foul, lets act
like it just didnt happen." The victory makes Edwards the fourth winner in four
races this season and, under NASCARs new rules, is supposed to get him into the
16-driver Chase for the Sprint Cup championship. "Just to have a win this early,
man, it is a huge relief," he said. Five other things from water-logged Bristol:
BUMP-AND-RUN: With Chase berths conceivably on the line with a win, Ricky
Stenhouse Jr. was salivating at a shot at teammate Edwards when the final
caution came out at Bristol. But he knew if the race went green again, his only
chance would be the old Bristol bump-and-run, which hasnt been used in years.
Its a risky move to do to a teammate, but owner Jack Roush said he expected
nothing less from Stenhouse. "When it comes time to really charge for the
checkered flag, there are no team orders, there aree no rules," Roush said.
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be raced, not only with one another, but with everybody in the garage. I expect
Ricky is as fierce a competitor as there is out there, and if his car has the
speed in it and he can get to the car in front of him, particularly the short
track, youd bump-and-run and take the prize if you could. Id be disappointed if
he didnt have that in his mind." AWESOME ARIC: Aric Almirola finished a
career-best third — and Richard Petty Motorsports teammate Marcos Ambrose was
fifth as four Ford drivers placed in the top-five — but Ambrose felt he could
have gotten more. He restarted second behind Carl Edwards with 70 laps to go and
had one solid chance to take the lead. If hed gotten past Edwards, he just might
have grabbed his first career victory. "These races are so hard to win, and it
was a great day for us," he said. "Im not disappointed at all with third, but
when you see it and you can taste it and its that close, you wonder what could
have went different." SMOKE RISES: Tony Stewart salvaged what looked like it was
going to be an awful weekend with a season-best fourth-place finish. It came
after he qualified 37th, needed two Saturday practice sessions with crew chief
Chad Johnston to make significant improvements to the car and needed the entire
race to work his way into the top-10. "Its a step in the right direction for
sure. This is a big one. If you come out of this place with a top-five youve had
a good day," he said. DISSAPOINTED WITH THE FINISH: Kyle Larson flirted with the
lead and was in position to race for the win until the race-changing caution
with 77 laps remaining. He went to pit road third, took four tires and restarted
ninth. So even though he finished a career-best 10th, the rookie wasnt thrilled.
"Its crazy to think its kind of a disappointing finish for the way we ran for
most of the race, but all in all it was a good race," Larson said. DALES BAD
DAY: Dale Earnhardt Jr.s strong start to the season finally came to an end at
Bristol, where he finished 24th after opening with a win and two second-places.
Although his Chevrolet wasnt great all weekend, his trouble Sunday was
compounded by two left-front tire issues. Once he was out of contention, he was
basically just making laps for the bulk of the race. It cost Earnhardt the
points lead, which went to Brad Keselowski. Earnhardt now trails Keselowski by
10 points.
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