Heat choke puts Celtics in playoff driver's seat
Michael Beasley's premature first-half celebration. |
Then Miami stopped putting the ball in the basket.
The Heat didn't score for the first 5:13 of the second half, and Chicago won the third quarter 33-8. It didn't get much better for Miami in the fourth, with the Bulls winning the second half by a 57-27 margin on their way to an 89-78 victory.
The loss was disastrous for the Heat (35-44), who are now 1.5 games back of No. 7/8 Boston and Brooklyn (both 36-42) with just three remaining. Miami is also half a game behind Indiana (35-43).
This is great news for the Celtics playoff chances, as the Heat are the only team of the three that Boston does not own the tiebreaker against.
Shimmy, shimmy … with Miami’s loss, Hollinger playoff odds peg Boston with 65.8% chance at playoffs: pic.twitter.com/RBtTlfGqjq
— Chris Forsberg (@ESPNForsberg) April 10, 2015
The C's are in Cleveland tonight, stay tuned to see what LeBron decides to do.
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