| 3-pointer gets Heat past Warriors, 126-125 | Posted By thechampionrings (28th Feb 19 at 9:46am) |
Dwyane Wade jumped onto a courtside table and thumped himself on the chest three times. He took a victory lap, waving a towel. He got mobbed by teammates.
He's been part of games that meant more. But bigger moments -- there haven't been many, if any, than this one.
Wade's one-legged, off-the-glass, straightaway 3-point heave as time expired lifted the Miami heat championship rings to a 126-125 victory over the Golden State Warriors on Wednesday night, a game where the Heat wasted every bit of a 24-point lead and had to rally from four points down in the final minute.
Kevin Durant made one of two free throws with 14 seconds left, putting cheap Golden State Warriors championship rings up by two. The Heat had no timeouts, no way to set up a play, and there was no way anyone could have drawn up what happened.
Wade brought the ball up, drove into the lane, stutter-stepped and lost the ball for a brief moment. He gathered it and shoveled it to Dion Waiters, who was double-teamed and couldn't get off a shot. Waiters tossed it back to Wade, who shot-faked Durant in the air and then had his first try blocked by Jordan Bell.
Wade caught the rebound with about a second left. Off the glass, for the win. From there, bedlam.
The fans erupted in cheers. Some of the Warriors watched the replay on the overhead screens with a look of disbelief, and after a moment Warriors star Stephen Curry came over to offer congratulations after presumably their last head-to-head meeting before Wade retires after this season.
Wade scored 25 points to help Miami heat championship rings for sale snap a six-game home losing streak.
Goran Dragic led the Heat with 27 points. Josh Richardson added 21, and Miami made 18 3-pointers.
Klay Thompson scored 36 points for the custom Golden State Warriors championship rings. Durant added 29 and Curry scored 24 for the Warriors, whose lead over Denver atop the Western Conference dropped to a half-game.
Golden State rallied from 19 down to win 120-118 at home on Feb. 10, and dug its way out of an even bigger hole this time -- but couldn't finish it off. Wade's 3-pointer with 15 seconds left got Miami to 124-123, and he came up with one more when the Heat needed it most custom nba championship rings.
Dragic had 25 points by halftime, getting 20 of those in the second quarter alone -- setting Heat single-quarter and any-half records for a reserve. He had 11 points in a span of 69 seconds in the second quarter, and a pair of free throws with 2:59 left in the half put Miami up 69-45.
Against most teams, even in the first half, a 24-point lead might have been enough. The Warriors, of course, are not most teams championship rings.
Back-to-back 3-pointers by Durant and Thompson helped Golden State get the lead down to 74-59 by halftime. The Warriors cut the lead to seven on two separate occasions in the third quarter, and kept whittling away in the fourth -- getting within six when Draymond Green rattled in a 3-pointer from the right corner with 8:20 left, then 106-103 when Curry connected from deep on the next possession.
The Warriors led for all of 1:14 in the second half. Wade didn't let them leave with the lead.
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