![]() “So we just have to believe, and one game at a time.” “We’ve seen a team come back from 3-0 firsthand,” Bam Adebayo said, referencing the Celtics near comeback on the Heat in the Eastern Conference Finals (Miami won Game 7 in Boston). Resilience and relentlessness have been the Heat hallmarks this postseason, but those qualities are about to be tested like never before. It’s going to be a gnarly game in Denver that is built for the competitors that we have in our locker room.” “All we are going to focus on is getting this thing back to the 305. We’ve done everything the hard way, and that’s the way it’s going to have to be done right now, again. “You probably shouldn’t sleep tonight any amount of time. It’s fine,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “I told the guys, feel whatever you want to feel tonight. It felt like a game Miami had to have, but Aaron Gordon and Bruce Brown grabbed it for Denver. The Heat just had dropped two games at home, and in the second one of those they held Nikola Jokić and Jamal Murray in relative check - with Jokić spending 5:15 of the heart of the fourth quarter on the bench due to foul trouble – and it didn’t matter. The Heat locker room was quiet after Game 4. Just get it done by any means necessary and figure the rest out.” It’s just one possession, one quarter, half to half. “You really just have to take it one possession at a time. It has been done before, in a Conference Final and Final, I have been part of it before,” Love said after a Heat Game 4 loss on their home court that felt like a punch to the gut. Yet there he was, a couple of improbable games later, dancing with Stephen Curry out at the arc and contesting a shot that missed and sealed the Cavaliers’ historic comeback and title in 2016. MIAMI - Kevin Love has been here before, down 3-1 in the NBA Finals and staring up at a seemingly invincible foe. Then, it’s on incumbent players to decide whether to stay the course or use their leverage to try to leave. Smith could have gone further for raising the ceiling.)Īnthony probably wouldn’t have liked how the Nuggets performed if they kept the band together. That Dahntay Jones was such a significant loss shows how vulnerable this team was. But by the time Anthony got traded, Billups (34) and Kenyon Martin (33) were on the downswing. But because the Nuggets wanted to rebuild – their prerogative – he wanted to leave.ĭenver earned its run to the 2009 conference finals. He didn’t want to rebuild, which was his prerogative. If Anthony didn’t want to leave Denver, he didn’t have to force his way from Denver. I’m like, “I don’t want to go, but if y’all going to rebuild, it’s time for me to go somewhere else.” We’re supposed to be building, not rebuilding. I’m not going to rebuild after we done went to the Western Conference Finals. We’re about to trade J.R.” K-Mart – contracts is up, and the lockout’s coming? ![]() ![]() They’re like, “We ain’t re-signing Chauncey. ![]() On that team, Dahntay was a key piece on that team. You’re supposed to add pieces, plug and play, don’t mess the core up. What are you supposed to do? You’re supposed to build on that. We go to the Western Conference Finals in 09. But it’s like they put my back against the wall. Carmelo Anthony thought Denver should have won the title.Ī year later, he requested a trade (and ultimately got dealt to the Knicks).Ĭontrary to what anybody an every believes, I never wanted to leave Denver. The Nuggets reached the 2009 Western Conference finals. ![]()
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