Filed under: 76ers, HeatPHILADELPHIA -- So the biggest telescope in NBA history moved a few hundred miles down the East Coast, and trained its lens on a team that, on second glance, might not be the biggest bust on the planet after all.
"If we lose, it's gonna be the end of the world for people,'' LeBron James said of his Miami Heat team Wednesday night in Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center. "And if we win, it'll be because we should have, because of the talent that we have. But we can't just let outside people just say what they want to say. We understand that. We just have to take care of business.''
James said that before the Heat shook off a sloppy first quarter, clamped down on the 76ers and ran and shot their way past their obliging hosts, 97-87. Thus, just as Dwyane Wade had cracked a night earlier about how they won't go 82-0, it's now just as assured that they won't go 0-82, and probably not 41-41 either. Today's verdict, after Game 2 -- and believe it, there will be a verdict rendered after all 82 for this bunch -- is that the newly-augmented yet still-unfamiliar Heat are better than most, but not nearly as good now as they will eventually be. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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