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His status for Game 3 is unclear.Ĭommissioner Adam Silver told NBA TV before the game that negotiations for the next media rights deal are now a priority since the new Collective Bargaining Agreement has been ratified - and how expansion talk will come after that. Herro got hurt in the first half of Game 1 of Round 1 at Milwaukee. Injured Heat guard Tyler Herro played 2-on-2 on Saturday as he continues his efforts to try to return from a broken hand at some point in these finals - but remained out. … Nuggets legends Alex English, LaPhonso Ellis (who actually ended his NBA career with Miami) and David Thompson were among those in attendance. Denver hadn’t lost a game since May 7 - four weeks ago. Nuggets: Jokic became the 14th different player in NBA history to score at least 41 in a finals loss. … The Heat got their 13th win of these playoffs, breaking a tie with the 1999 New York Knicks for the most ever by a No. Heat: Miami changed its starting lineup, with Kevin Love back in the opening five and Caleb Martin - who missed practice Saturday with an illness – coming off the bench. “When it comes down to the wire,” Vincent said, “we're strangely comfortable.” And for the 44th time this season, the Heat won a game by five points or less. It looked like everything was going Denver's way. Murray had five straight points to end the flurry, and Denver led 44-32 when it was over. In a 70-second span early in the second quarter, Denver got four 3s - more points than Miami got in that entire 9-minute stretch – and they came from four different players: Brown, then Jeff Green, then Murray, then Gordon.īoom, boom, boom, and boom. The Nuggets outscored Miami 32-11 over the next 9 minutes, turning the double-digit deficit into a double-digit lead thanks to an absolute 3-point barrage. Butler made a jumper with 4:56 left in the opening quarter to put Miami up 21-10, tying the second-biggest lead any opponent had built in Denver so far in these playoffs. Strus, who was 0 for 10 in Game 1, had four 3-pointers in the first quarter of Game 2. “It’s defeating when you’re giving up mistake after mistake, and it’s not them beating you, you’re giving them open dunks or open shots. “They just played hard, and like I said, it was more discipline,” Murray said. Murray had 18 points and 10 assists for Denver, while Aaron Gordon had 12 points and Bruce Brown scored 11. You guys probably thought I was just making up some storyline after Game 1 when I said we didn't play well. “I mean, this is the NBA Finals and we’re talking about effort. And just as he did after a Game 1 win, Nuggets coach Michael Malone sounded the alarm after a Game 2 loss. "Pretty glad that he missed it.”ĭenver lost at home for the first time since March 30, and for the first time in 10 home playoff games this year. Butler missed a 3, and with a chance to tie, Murray missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer. They had no answers for Jokic, who was 16 of 28 from the floor, the last of those shots a 4-footer with 36 seconds left to get the Nuggets within three.ĭenver elected not to foul on the ensuing Miami possession and it paid off. Max Strus scored 14 and Duncan Robinson had 10 - all of them in the fourth - for the Heat, who had a big early lead, then got down by as many as 15. They outscored Denver 17-5 in the first 3:17 of the fourth to take the lead for good, eventually went up by 12, then frittered most of it away and had to survive a 3-point try by Jamal Murray as time expired.

Denver was 11-0 in these playoffs when leading by double digits at any point in a game, and 37-1 this season overall when leading by at least eight going into the fourth. They were down by as many as 15 points, down eight going into the fourth, and those numbers signified they were going to lose. “Our guys are competitors,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. Gabe Vincent scored 23 points, Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo each had 21 and Heat beat the Denver Nuggets 111-108 in Game 2 on Sunday night.

The Heat tied the NBA Finals and had to overcome a monster 41-point effort from Nikola Jokic to do it. The Miami Heat roar back in Game 2 to tie the Denver Nuggets in NBA FinalsĭENVER - Staring down a 2-0 deficit in the NBA Finals, as the visitors in a hostile arena where no road team had prevailed in more than two months, the Miami Heat decided to do what they’ve done throughout the postseason.