MIAMI How hard would you fight to win if winning meant a hugely harder battle ahead one everyone seemed sure you would lose decisively? Perhaps even embarrassingly. And that you d have to undertake this biggest of challenges without your biggest star and top scorer?
No Jimmy Butler was no problem in a Miami Heat play-in win over Chicago Friday night. But now the No. 8-seed Heat face No. 1 Boston in the NBA playoff’s first round starting Sunday.
Tyrese Maxey and Joel Embiid were absolute superstars and the Sixers’ defense was outstanding down the stretch as the beat the Heat and draw closer in the East standings.
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