Ball game. Dallas 112, Miami 103.
Jason Kidd just drilled a 3-pointer, Mavs up 105-100.
Heat star Dwyane Wade and reserves Udonis Haslem, Mike Miller and James Jones were held out of contact portions of Sunday's practice.
Only a year ago, everything in Dwyane Wade's life was uncertain.
A look at the matchup in the Eastern Conference finals, which begin Sunday (with regular season and playoff records):
Their charter flight home from Boston landed around 3 a.m. Tuesday, and the Miami Heat were back at work less than 12 hours later.
Time was against these Celtics before.
Paul Pierce is from Los Angeles, so he knows a thing or do about Hollywood.
The Celtics were stumbling, trying to find some kind of rhythm, as Doc Rivers gathered his players around him during a third quarter timeout. To Rivers, it seemed like a good time to remind them of something he had spent the last week trying to drill into them.
