Historic NBA Finals between the Denver Nuggets and Miami to begin tonight
When players complete the NBA Playoffs by averaging a triple double, they most certainly come out on top of the pile as victors.
That is what the Denver Nuggets possesses in Nikola Jokic. A guy that can do it all. Denver hardly loses when Jokic records a triple-double, but that is not the reason why they win games or that is not the only reason.
They are a very good defensive team, who can always, regardless of subs, guard all five positions on the floor efficiently, while being able to offensively ‘shoot you out the gym’.
They can keep your best players from performing as their usual self, while being able to rely on 4 guys to be the star of the night. All this while being masterfully coach by Mike Malone.
On the flip side of that, is a team straight out of a movie. A team with nothing but the will to be there, with an equally experienced and determined coach, the Miami Heat. Nobody can articulate the magnitude of difficulty this Heat team had to go through enroute to the finals. And that is okay.
To start the NBA postseason, the Miami Heat odds to win it all, was 370-1. Improbable is not even as bad as these odds would suggests.
Tonight, they are in the finals, four wins away from the unthinkable, at least, contextually. They qualified through the Play-in, becoming the 8th seed and had to knock out the best team in the NBA in the Milwaukee Bucks to advance to the second round, and so they did.
They defeated the New York Knicks quite easily and now; they have knocked out the Boston Celtics to win the Eastern Conference. All of this without Tyler Herro, and Oladipo.
But that is not all, they have done all this with 7 undrafted players in the rotation, and I will name them for you, Max Strus, Gabe Vincent, Caleb Martin, Duncan Robinson, Udonis Haslem, Haywood Highsmith, and Omer Yurtseven.
The Heat has not done this by luck, they are the hardest working team of these Playoffs and deserve to be in the finals. They will not surprise me becoming champions.
Tune in tonight, this is a final for the ages.
