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Speaker 1: up making a classic, a winner's anthem, an anthem for everybody,

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Speaker 3: One of DJ Khaled's signature hits had been blaring inside

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to four years of Heat. I'm your host,

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Speaker 3: Israel Gutierres and this is episode four or Game six.

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Speaker 4: Lebron.

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Speaker 3: The Mavericks had just disposed of the Heat on Miami's

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Speaker 5: Does it bother you that so many people are happy

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Speaker 3: It was a response that gave his critics the ultimate

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Speaker 3: Dan Lebtard of Meadow Lark Media watched it all from

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Speaker 7: It makes sense that someone that vulnerable in the postgame

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Speaker 3: Rachel Nichols spoke with Lebron at the finals against Dallas,

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Speaker 3: In that stretch, she noticed a person making some notable adjustments.

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Speaker 8: He was clearly in just such a terrible place, he

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Speaker 8: And I want you to think about that, Lebron James,

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Speaker 3: Of mind that his future wife, Savannah Brinston was with

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Speaker 10: What he needed was home and not just physically home.

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Speaker 10: And it was basically him realizing that he had gotten

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Speaker 3: Lebron James was currently misunderstood. He wanted to help a

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Speaker 8: There had been a lockout and so everything got delayed.

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Speaker 6: The finals, I said, in my room for two weeks,

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Speaker 8: And I do think that was a really important turning

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Speaker 8: And another important part of that was, as you referenced

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Speaker 11: I played a game.

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Speaker 6: Fun, joyful, you know, and I let my game do

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Speaker 11: You started to hear the villain, you know, now you

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Speaker 8: Being angry, and I think saying it out loud was

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Speaker 12: Last summer, Lebron called me and we worked out at

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Speaker 3: you to be. It was considered an extremely selfless move

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Speaker 4: The result was a.

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Speaker 20: You are obviously very close with Carmelo Anthony, Olympic teammates together.

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Speaker 6: Wish them the best of the time. I see him

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Speaker 20: Quickly you took three or four from him in the

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Speaker 6: Uh, they're very well coached team. You know, they play

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Speaker 20: Congratulations, we'll see in the second round game.

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Speaker 3: round matchup, they didn't realize the group led by David West,

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Speaker 3: Paul George, Danny Granger, and Roy Hibbert would create the

446
00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:35,760
Speaker 3: kinds of problems Miami didn't have great answers for. And

447
00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:38,400
Speaker 3: when Bosh injured his hip flexer in Game one after

448
00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:41,679
Speaker 3: being fouled by Hibbert on a made basket, the Pacers

449
00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:45,320
Speaker 3: suddenly seemed more formidable than anyone could have imagined.

450
00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:50,480
Speaker 6: Oh out of the basket took a hard hitt as

451
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Speaker 6: he finished.

452
00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:51,920
Speaker 17: That three point play.

453
00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:56,399
Speaker 5: Now that was an explosion and Boss going strong to

454
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Speaker 5: that left hand guy Hibbert, who picks.

455
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Speaker 17: Up his third.

456
00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:02,480
Speaker 3: A Heat team that wasn't rich with size, had just

457
00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:05,520
Speaker 3: lost its starting power forward and was about to face

458
00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:09,439
Speaker 3: the Pacers for potentially six more games without him. That

459
00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:12,000
Speaker 3: meant a six foot eight, two hundred and twenty pound

460
00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:14,040
Speaker 3: battier would have to get.

461
00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:17,119
Speaker 14: Big after you know, CB gets hurt, Spoke comes me

462
00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:19,800
Speaker 14: after the game and says, hey, we need to play small.

463
00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:22,200
Speaker 14: You know, will you will you be the power forward?

464
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Speaker 14: I said, hell, yeah, let's go. You know, it takes

465
00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:26,159
Speaker 14: me back to my Dukee days. So I knew I

466
00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:28,480
Speaker 14: had to bang with David West and he was a

467
00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:31,359
Speaker 14: big bully, and bangal with Roy Hibbert. I'm like, hey,

468
00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:33,160
Speaker 14: let's let's go, man, let's do it.

469
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Speaker 3: Fortunately the Heat still had a healthy big man it

470
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Speaker 3: could throw into the mix, the reliable you, Donnis Hasli.

471
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Speaker 13: If there's one team that I could give too is Indiana.

472
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Speaker 3: Oh okay, let's get out in front of that right away.

473
00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:51,520
Speaker 3: Haslam was not a fan of these Pacers, but it

474
00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:54,840
Speaker 3: was this series that actually reinforced that distaste.

475
00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:57,840
Speaker 4: It wasn't just Bosh that was injured in this series.

476
00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:01,040
Speaker 3: Wade was playing through soreness and the left knee that

477
00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:03,240
Speaker 3: would need to be drained before the start of Game

478
00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:06,880
Speaker 3: three in Indianapolis. The Pacers had already won Game two

479
00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:09,679
Speaker 3: by holding Miami to just seventy five points at home,

480
00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:13,479
Speaker 3: and in Game three, after that procedure that was supposed

481
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Speaker 3: to provide relief for Wade, he had the worst playoff

482
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Speaker 3: game of his career, with five points on two of

483
00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:22,120
Speaker 3: thirteen shooting, as the Heat were held to seventy five

484
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:25,760
Speaker 3: points again and suddenly trailed the series two games to one.

485
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Speaker 4: Game four in.

486
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Speaker 3: Indianapolis would become the first test of the resolve built

487
00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:35,480
Speaker 3: in those previous finals, except this time it was Wade

488
00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:37,800
Speaker 3: who seemed to be carrying the weight of the franchise.

489
00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:40,920
Speaker 3: He had just come off his worst career playoff game

490
00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:43,560
Speaker 3: on a sore knee, and the idea that he could

491
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Speaker 3: be Lebron's partner in winning multiple championships suddenly seemed bleak.

492
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:52,280
Speaker 3: Wade even visited with his Marquette coach, Tom Crean, who

493
00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:53,720
Speaker 3: was coaching Indiana at the time.

494
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Speaker 4: Here's battier, and.

495
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Speaker 14: We felt horrible for him because he was obviously in pain.

496
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:01,440
Speaker 14: His knee was swollen, so it wasn't like you. And

497
00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:05,080
Speaker 14: D's a warrior, so you know when he's when he's

498
00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:07,080
Speaker 14: banged up and say he's banged up, you know he's

499
00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:07,880
Speaker 14: really banged up.

500
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:10,840
Speaker 15: But that's what makes Hall of Famers.

501
00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:14,720
Speaker 14: That's why d Wade, you know, behind Kobe and Mike's

502
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:17,000
Speaker 14: probably the third greatest shooting guard of all time, with

503
00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:18,320
Speaker 14: respects to Jerry West.

504
00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:20,680
Speaker 15: You show up.

505
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:23,639
Speaker 14: You show up when you're when the pressure is on

506
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:27,120
Speaker 14: the line the most. And that's why I argue that

507
00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:29,480
Speaker 14: you need to go to the NBA Finals, win championships

508
00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:32,000
Speaker 14: to be considered one of the greatest because of their consequences.

509
00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:35,119
Speaker 14: And if you never put yourself in that position where

510
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:36,920
Speaker 14: your legacy is in the line and people are gonna

511
00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:41,440
Speaker 14: talk about you and downgrade your entire career, you can't

512
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:45,159
Speaker 14: be in that conversation. And that's why ultimate respect for

513
00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:49,439
Speaker 14: d Wade and Lebron and Chris and Ray Allen, all

514
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:52,520
Speaker 14: these guys. They show up when legacy is on the line.

515
00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:55,320
Speaker 14: And that was that that game four against in Indiana.

516
00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:59,160
Speaker 3: Wade was vintage and scoring thirty points with nine rebounds

517
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:02,440
Speaker 3: and six assists in this legacy marker of a game.

518
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:06,360
Speaker 17: Wade coming to the basket, so he's got a three

519
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:08,480
Speaker 17: ended up. Get a couple of field goals here for

520
00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:10,719
Speaker 17: Dwayne in the last nie and that was beautiful Lebron.

521
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:13,719
Speaker 5: James yelled up battye a cleared out and then they

522
00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:16,800
Speaker 5: ran a back door move with Wade running on the baseline.

523
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:19,280
Speaker 17: Beautiful bass and look by Lebron.

524
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 3: Lebron scored forty of his own with eighteen rebounds and

525
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:26,240
Speaker 3: nine assists in what was one of his best statistical

526
00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:29,520
Speaker 3: playoff games of his heat tenure, showing he'd had more

527
00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:31,280
Speaker 3: than Wade's back games.

528
00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:36,639
Speaker 5: Attacking Barbosa, bang and a fucking for Lebron thirty seven.

529
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:42,160
Speaker 5: Now that's a sheer upper body strength and then acrobatic

530
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:44,040
Speaker 5: ability to take the contact.

531
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Speaker 3: Fittingly, Wade got some additional help from his most familiar

532
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:53,360
Speaker 3: of teammates in this crucial clash. Haslam was coming off

533
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:55,879
Speaker 3: the bench at this point, but he knew he'd find

534
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:59,920
Speaker 3: enough opportunities to support Wade, his teammate of nine seasons.

535
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:03,320
Speaker 3: Miami had tried second year center Dexter Pittman in the

536
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 3: middle in Game three, and in Game four it was

537
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:09,359
Speaker 3: Ronnie Torioff getting the starting knot in the middle, but

538
00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:12,719
Speaker 3: it was Haslam that gave Miami twenty five critical minutes.

539
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:15,399
Speaker 3: With the Heat leading by just a point in the

540
00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:18,560
Speaker 3: fourth quarter, Haslm followed a way bucket by drawing an

541
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:23,040
Speaker 3: offensive foul in Indiana's lou Adminson. The collision left Haslm

542
00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:25,880
Speaker 3: bleeding from above his right eye, but he wouldn't allow

543
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,160
Speaker 3: Heat trainer Jay Sable to take him to the locker

544
00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:29,600
Speaker 3: room for the necessary stitches.

545
00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 13: I I remember get hit the eye when I got

546
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:35,159
Speaker 13: hit my damn, I you know what I'm saying. I

547
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 13: was pissed, and I think Jay tried to take me.

548
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:38,240
Speaker 2: To the locker room.

549
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:39,439
Speaker 13: But I knew if I went to the locker room

550
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:42,359
Speaker 13: to get stitches that I probably missed too much of

551
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:44,840
Speaker 13: the game to be able to help win, right.

552
00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:45,199
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?

553
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:46,960
Speaker 13: By the time I go get stitched up and try

554
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,560
Speaker 13: to come back, who knows. So I was like that,

555
00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:52,600
Speaker 13: tap it up, we don't have time.

556
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:53,280
Speaker 2: I gotta go.

557
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 13: And it was also around the time where they thought

558
00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,000
Speaker 13: that the game plan was to leave me open. I

559
00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:01,560
Speaker 13: don't know what they were smoking, but their game plan

560
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:04,359
Speaker 13: was to make me beat them. I understand Lebron and

561
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:06,399
Speaker 13: Dwayne is great, but don't disrespect the work that I

562
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:10,320
Speaker 13: put in. Don't disrespect my craft, don't disrespect who I am.

563
00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:12,200
Speaker 13: And I felt like that was disrespectful.

564
00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:16,880
Speaker 17: Heats the dribble alive. It's Haslam prospect, way go, you've done.

565
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 17: It's Haslam. What a quarter he's had.

566
00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:22,080
Speaker 3: Wade, James and Haslam scored eighty four of the Heat's

567
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:24,680
Speaker 3: one hundred and one points in the series evening win,

568
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 3: and yet he'd save his most memorable moment for the

569
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 3: next game. It was the second quarter of Game five

570
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:35,159
Speaker 3: in Miami, with the series tied at two games apiece

571
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 3: and the Heat leading by only seven points at the moment,

572
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,919
Speaker 3: and Bosh was still not healthy enough to play. Just

573
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:45,439
Speaker 3: about ninety seconds earlier in the game, Tyler Hansbrough committed

574
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:48,919
Speaker 3: a flagrant foul on Wade, drawing some blood and the

575
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 3: ire of Haslim.

576
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 5: The previous a couple of games as he goes, so

577
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:55,920
Speaker 5: whoever gets fouled, But it's so difficult, and Wade looks

578
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 5: like you got hit pretty hard.

579
00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:01,080
Speaker 17: But Hansbrough came.

580
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 18: Over his back and they contact with him theck and

581
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:06,080
Speaker 18: Lebron James is appealing to the.

582
00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:10,040
Speaker 17: Officials looking for the flavored called I think the officials

583
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:12,040
Speaker 17: are discussing that right down on the class.

584
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:18,399
Speaker 13: That handshake is what pissed me off, because I get it,

585
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 13: it's a physical game. At last game, the lou Munskin

586
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:23,480
Speaker 13: gout hit me, he was the guy hit me. See,

587
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:25,920
Speaker 13: I don't forget that stuff. Musen hit me and gave

588
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:30,880
Speaker 13: me stitches. Hansburg hit d Wayne and gave him stitches. Now,

589
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 13: right after Hansburg hits the Wayne, I watched Hansboro, who

590
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:36,439
Speaker 13: hit d Wayne, and Munson who hit me, go slap

591
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 13: each other five like good job. At that point, the

592
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:44,239
Speaker 13: decision was made. That decision is made, you know what

593
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 13: I'm saying. And at that supposed set and I say,

594
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 13: supposed toy out of this. As soon as the time out,

595
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 13: I walked to the timeout and I said, I'm somebody up.

596
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 2: Spoe looked at me and he said whatever he said.

597
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 2: I don't know. I couldn't hear him. I had already went.

598
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 13: To that dark place, and I said, supposed to stay

599
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 13: out of this, stay out of it.

600
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 2: That's it, you know what I'm saying, That's it.

601
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 13: And I made my and it was crazy because the

602
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 13: very next play I couldn't have drew it up any better.

603
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 2: I couldn't have drew it up any better.

604
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 13: I'm the low man on the rotation of a pick

605
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 13: and roll, hands burros coming right at me.

606
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:21,800
Speaker 2: I literally thought in my head.

607
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 13: Like if I don't take this opportunity, I might not

608
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 13: get a better one.

609
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:26,640
Speaker 2: And I just did. I handled my business.

610
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 13: It's more so like, you know what I'm saying, like,

611
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:32,280
Speaker 13: just understand, we're here to play basketball, but we ain't finna,

612
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 13: you know, just turn the other cheek to certain things

613
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 13: that are going on. You know what I'm saying. My stitches,

614
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 13: the Wayne stitches, the handshake. It's starting to seem a

615
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 13: little intention here, you know what I'm saying. So we're

616
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 13: just gonna let you know we with all that too.

617
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:48,400
Speaker 13: I had no intentions on blocking the ball.

618
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 18: Oh hauck, I may flayrant turn it off. I was

619
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 18: hands woman, play thing out some of the fuck Gray

620
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 18: that he paced off Cup that was shuffer the other

621
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 18: night and things.

622
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 17: They're getting very threaten though.

623
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 5: First well they've been physical throughout this series, but now

624
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 5: it's getting ugly. Mark, and for Eudanna's has them, this

625
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 5: is clearly paidback. He just clubs with two hands hands

626
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 5: bull The problem here, Mark, the crowd loves it. But

627
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 5: if this is a flagrant too. Remember Haslem is their

628
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:27,080
Speaker 5: best post shooter with Bosh out, He's the one that

629
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 5: provided that.

630
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:29,520
Speaker 17: Spacing the other day in Game four.

631
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 5: If he's kicked out, no Bosh, no Haslm, that.

632
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 17: Is a major blow for Miami. Well, they're saying there's

633
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 17: a flagrant in one. I think that's a flagrant too.

634
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 13: Yeah, like I say, is I made my mind it

635
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:50,880
Speaker 13: once I went to the huddle, it's going to happen.

636
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:53,200
Speaker 13: I didn't know it's gonna happen in very nice play,

637
00:30:54,080 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 13: but the lower working mysterious waves. I mean, everybody just

638
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,719
Speaker 13: like laughing and talking about it. But most so it

639
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 13: was like the reaction of their players. Nobody approached me

640
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 13: after I did that, for all the tough guys in

641
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 13: this locker room, for everybody who's supposed to.

642
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 2: Be big and bad.

643
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 13: Nobody approached me from your team when I did that,

644
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 13: and Matt let me know we had your heart. Nobody

645
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 13: from your team came and did nothing to me, not

646
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 13: even come my weight, not even looked my weight.

647
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 2: We got your heart.

648
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 3: Haslam would be suspended for Game six, as with Pittman,

649
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 3: who got suspended for three games following a flagrant two

650
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 3: he took on Lance Stevenson seconds before the Heats blowout

651
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 3: in Game five was complete with an even thinner front court.

652
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 3: The Heat went to Indiana and bludgeoned the Pacers in

653
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 3: Game six to clinch the series. Wade turned Banker's life

654
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 3: Fieldhouse into his personal playground again, scoring forty one with

655
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 3: ten rebounds in the clincher.

656
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 16: Now the Pacers need to stop something they have not

657
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 16: been very successful on with this man. Wait to the basket,

658
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 16: pound it out a foul, want to.

659
00:31:57,520 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 17: Play from weighing on a chance for a three point per.

660
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 21: We got a lot of them basketball left, you know.

661
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 21: I think when you talk about three games, you know,

662
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 21: two guys, you know, being dominated at the same time.

663
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Speaker 21: I think this is probably the most that we have

664
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Speaker 21: been when it talk about playoffs. I don't know regular

665
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 21: season we've had some good games, but I think the

666
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 21: way that we've played off each other, we've played very well,

667
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 21: and you know, obviously we envisioned this at times, you know,

668
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:27,800
Speaker 21: So it just happened that we needed more than a

669
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 21: series because we was missing a very big piece with

670
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:31,320
Speaker 21: Chris Bosh being out.

671
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:34,960
Speaker 3: It couldn't possibly get more intense than that. Right, Wade's

672
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:39,080
Speaker 3: legacy on the line, and by extension, Lebron's brothers bloodied,

673
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 3: and the team's depth tested to its capacity because of

674
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 3: an injury and suspensions, Well it could. All it required

675
00:32:47,480 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 3: was two words. Boston Celtics weren't the two thousand and

676
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 3: eight Celtics. That team won a championship with instant chemistry

677
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:08,560
Speaker 3: around a trio of Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen and Paul Pierce.

678
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 3: This team, four seasons later, had a lot more Rajon

679
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 3: Rondo in its formula, and while on court chemistry was

680
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 3: still strong, off court issues were arising. Allen had been

681
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 3: a part of trade rumors, and the future Hall of

682
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 3: Famer was effectively being told Rondo would be Boston's future

683
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 3: and it's quite possible to move to the bench would

684
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 3: be an Allen's near future. KG wasn't his two thousand

685
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 3: and eight self, the depth wasn't great, and even Pierce's

686
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 3: production would suffer some from Rondo's emergence. This four seed

687
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 3: wasn't the team that was supposed to take out the Heat.

688
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:49,360
Speaker 3: Yet there were the Celtics, having eked out a series

689
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,960
Speaker 3: tying Game four in Boston in overtime by outscoring the

690
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 3: Heat four to two in the extra five minutes.

691
00:33:56,880 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 16: Wait picked up by Daniel's final seconds looks up Head's fake.

692
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 17: Puts up a three for the win. Look good Celtics winning.

693
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 16: Then the conference final is tied at two games apiece.

694
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 3: Surely Game five in Miami would settle the Heat. It

695
00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:18,839
Speaker 3: did quite the opposite. Bosh would return and play off

696
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:22,879
Speaker 3: the bench, but the Heat offense was miserable, shooting under

697
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:26,319
Speaker 3: forty percent from the field, and the Celtics stunned the

698
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 3: Heat despite a combined fifty seven from James and Wade

699
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 3: Down a five.

700
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:35,319
Speaker 16: Seconds wave puts up a three, won't go rebound Garnett Crowson.

701
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:35,719
Speaker 17: Ahead to two.

702
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 5: It the Pufficks win Game five, take a three two lead,

703
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 5: a huge win on the road.

704
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:49,320
Speaker 16: Is Miami now one loss away from elimination? A stunning

705
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 16: result here at the American Airlines a Raider.

706
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,920
Speaker 3: The narrative shifted mightily for the Miami Heat. In a

707
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:00,759
Speaker 3: span of just two games. The Heat went from a

708
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 3: team looking like it would coast to another finals appearance

709
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:06,360
Speaker 3: to a team that had everything on the line in

710
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 3: just one game, and that game would be played in Boston.

711
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 4: Here's Levitard.

712
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:17,240
Speaker 7: I don't believe that there has ever been a game

713
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 7: in South Florida that had more pressure on it, not

714
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 7: a Game seven in the World Series, because a Game

715
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 7: seven in the World Series wasn't for the blueprint of

716
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 7: the franchise, wasn't for the architecture of this thing is

717
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 7: going to break down in laughter if you lose Game six,

718
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:40,280
Speaker 7: the America is going to celebrate your epic echoing failure

719
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:44,279
Speaker 7: four years because things will change if you lose this game.

720
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:46,239
Speaker 4: I don't believe that there has ever in.

721
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 7: My lifetime covering sports in this market a more pressurized

722
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:52,959
Speaker 7: game than that one that Lebron James played in Game

723
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:58,279
Speaker 7: six in Boston. I doubted that that team would be

724
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 7: able to do that. I doubted that Lebron would be

725
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 7: able to do that.

726
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 2: I did not.

727
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 7: Trust based on the previous what would it be one

728
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 7: hundred and sixty some odd games that that team had played,

729
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 7: that that performance was available to anybody. I did not

730
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 7: think that that's how that would go when they went

731
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 7: into Boston. I expected them to lose that basketball game.

732
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:24,919
Speaker 3: If the Heat don't win Game six and the Game

733
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,920
Speaker 3: seven that would follow, major adjustments would be on the

734
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 3: way it's possible Chris Bosh would get traded. It's likely

735
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:35,440
Speaker 3: you Donnis Haslam, the Miami native, doesn't finish his twenty

736
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:38,799
Speaker 3: year career with the Heat. Lebron James's attempt to win

737
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 3: a championship with his friends and change the league as

738
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 3: a result would have been deemed a historic failure, not

739
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:46,920
Speaker 3: to mention another year.

740
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:48,320
Speaker 4: Of being the butt of jokes.

741
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,680
Speaker 3: Tim Reynolds of the Associated Press tells a story of

742
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:55,359
Speaker 3: when Shane Battier watched Lebron deal with those thoughts in

743
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:57,160
Speaker 3: real time before Game six.

744
00:36:57,760 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 9: There was Shane Battier told me a really cool story.

745
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:06,319
Speaker 9: The night before Game six. They are in Boston, they're

746
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:09,840
Speaker 9: going to dinner. Car pulls up as they're walking on

747
00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 9: the street. I don't know how big the group of

748
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,479
Speaker 9: Heat guys was. There was a few of them. Shane

749
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 9: and Lebron were quoted. Car pulls up, rolls down the window, Lebron,

750
00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 9: you suck, and then the guy starts laughing at himself

751
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 9: and drives away. That's it, Lebron, you suck. And they're

752
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:30,360
Speaker 9: all sitting there like, well, that just happened. And about

753
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 9: twenty minutes later, Shane told me that he realized that

754
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 9: Lebron had not said anything yet, and he's like, and

755
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:37,360
Speaker 9: that's what I knew.

756
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:39,359
Speaker 2: We were good.

757
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 9: And the next night forty five, fifteen to five.

758
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,799
Speaker 3: The butterfly effect from losing Game six would have been

759
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 3: so massive it's hard to imagine how different the Heat

760
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:54,720
Speaker 3: franchise and the entire league would have looked. But only

761
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:57,760
Speaker 3: one look truly mattered. On the evening of June seventh,

762
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 3: twenty twelve, in Boston's TD Garden, it was the one

763
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:05,280
Speaker 3: on Lebron's face. Battier certainly noticed.

764
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:08,600
Speaker 14: We know what that game meant. Everyone who came to that,

765
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:11,440
Speaker 14: you know, the garden, what are they called? They knew

766
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 14: if we went today, it's the end of the Big

767
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 14: three eras everyone came to barry the Heat, everybody, all

768
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 14: those all those Celtic fans, right, and so we we like,

769
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,240
Speaker 14: we didn't have to like do this big speech.

770
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 15: We knew what was on the.

771
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 14: Line, right, But the look, the look on you know,

772
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:30,000
Speaker 14: Lebron's face, I got this, I got this.

773
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 3: The last time Lebron had faced this level of championship pressure,

774
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:35,759
Speaker 3: he looked to be shrinking on his way to an

775
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:38,880
Speaker 3: eight point finals game and a loss to the Dallas Mavericks.

776
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:42,319
Speaker 3: So there was some hope for the Celtics, but the

777
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:45,720
Speaker 3: heat's pregame commute from their hotel to the arena offered

778
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:49,840
Speaker 3: another source of motivation for Lebron. It was much longer

779
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 3: than usual, with the team bus fighting heavy Boston traffic.

780
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 4: Here's e Donnis Haslam.

781
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 13: I already knew he was gonna go crazy because they

782
00:38:57,040 --> 00:39:00,319
Speaker 13: tried to pull some trickery. You know, we got to

783
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 13: the game, like sixty business before the game, the bus,

784
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:06,880
Speaker 13: the traffic.

785
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,759
Speaker 2: I don't know, it's a little skeptic. I'm a little

786
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:12,400
Speaker 2: skeptical behind that all played out.

787
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:15,799
Speaker 13: But we literally walked in about with sixty on the

788
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:21,560
Speaker 13: clock and Bron was pissed and he looked at me and.

789
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 2: Dwayne, and I don't know Dwayne said something to him.

790
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:26,399
Speaker 13: He just gave us his face and he said, don't

791
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:30,719
Speaker 13: worry about it. And we was like, oh, they'd have

792
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 13: made him mad, they'd have made him mad. We were right, yeah,

793
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:38,840
Speaker 13: we'll follow, leave, we follow. You know, he made it

794
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 13: very clear, he made it very clear, don't worry about it.

795
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:44,239
Speaker 13: I got it, And I think he was a little

796
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 13: pissed off, just like we were. Man, come on, man,

797
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 13: at that stage, at that point, there's no way you

798
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:51,759
Speaker 13: should show up to the arena with sixty.

799
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:51,879
Speaker 2: On the clock.

800
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:55,799
Speaker 3: Maybe the shortened pregame experience gave James less time to

801
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:58,880
Speaker 3: weigh the massive consequences, but this was a version of

802
00:39:58,960 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 3: Lebron James no.

803
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:01,080
Speaker 4: Had seen before.

804
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 3: Sure, he'd scored twenty five straight in a playoff game

805
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:08,560
Speaker 3: against the Pistons, but this game was a calculated mission

806
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:11,600
Speaker 3: from beginning to end, in a place where the distaste

807
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:14,399
Speaker 3: for him runs thicker than anywhere else in the league.

808
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:17,000
Speaker 3: Battier could feel it from the bench.

809
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:19,879
Speaker 14: You know when Lebron in Deed and c he played

810
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 14: a certain level of force, You're just like, holy crap,

811
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 14: this is this is why they're generational players, the force

812
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 14: and just like you just like let's go. And it

813
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:33,719
Speaker 14: was so inspiring and like it was almost like throwing

814
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 14: a no hitter. Like you didn't want to talk to Lebron.

815
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:37,879
Speaker 14: You don't want to like look at him like you're

816
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:40,440
Speaker 14: doing it. We don't want to, Jake say it. Like

817
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:42,399
Speaker 14: we knew we were sitting there on the bench going holy,

818
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:45,799
Speaker 14: like this is this is crazy. But he was in

819
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 14: such a zone that day and in Boston knew it,

820
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:50,439
Speaker 14: and Boston knew they had no shot.

821
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:56,480
Speaker 3: Even Jackie McMullen, who knows Celtic's history and tradition as

822
00:40:56,480 --> 00:41:00,280
Speaker 3: well as anyone else, understood what a series win against

823
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 3: the Heat would have meant for the franchise, and her

824
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 3: eyes were fixed on one person only.

825
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:06,839
Speaker 15: I'm not watching anybody else.

826
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 9: I don't really care what anybody else does.

827
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:13,040
Speaker 8: This is this is Lebron's boom er Bus moment.

828
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:17,840
Speaker 3: And he starts off with six for seven, fourteen points

829
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 3: in the first quarter and just looks absolutely like he's

830
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 3: ready to wreck a team. And you know, looking back,

831
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:27,720
Speaker 3: people say, oh, you're only saying that based on the result,

832
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 3: but Lebron didn't really look like that very often.

833
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:35,880
Speaker 16: James for three pucks. It in Lebron, James from Town Town.

834
00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:39,879
Speaker 16: He's got twelve already, and that he could have scored.

835
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:40,440
Speaker 17: Ten in a row.

836
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:43,959
Speaker 16: James spin's trying to draw some contact. What a great

837
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 16: start to Lebron. James six of seven from the field.

838
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:49,800
Speaker 17: And he's in the paint.

839
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:53,160
Speaker 3: He maintained that look in the second quarter, going six

840
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:56,239
Speaker 3: of seven again from the field to score thirty by

841
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:59,719
Speaker 3: halftime and carry his team to a thirteen point lead

842
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 3: at the break.

843
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 16: James tries again and puts it in again. Nine for

844
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:07,440
Speaker 16: ten from the field right now unstoppable and some of

845
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 16: these are tough, tough shots games again leave right now

846
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:16,400
Speaker 16: is on a special zone here on the first half,

847
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:20,880
Speaker 16: Fosh down low against Ray Allen turns he'll jump football.

848
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:24,719
Speaker 17: Go James, let's flying in and throws it down. He's

849
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:26,800
Speaker 17: got twenty seven first half.

850
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:30,560
Speaker 16: Points extra special passes as change fits another a thirty

851
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 16: point first half.

852
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 3: It wasn't the best statistical game of Lebron James's career.

853
00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:39,280
Speaker 3: It would only be the most important and a stat

854
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:42,320
Speaker 3: line that Lebron and most Heat fans will never forget.

855
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 3: Forty five points, fifteen rebounds, five assists in a ninety

856
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 3: eight seventy nine win that saved the Miami Heats championship

857
00:42:51,719 --> 00:42:55,759
Speaker 3: experiment and shifted the narrative around Lebron even faster than

858
00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 3: that game four in Dallas did.

859
00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 16: And this has been one impressive dominal before it's James

860
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:02,879
Speaker 16: flips it up left handed thanks to then He's got

861
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 16: forty five. The Heat forced the game seven the Eastern

862
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:09,840
Speaker 16: Conference Finals, all tied to three games a piece.

863
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:13,719
Speaker 3: Here's Lebron on the court with Doris Burke after his

864
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:16,120
Speaker 3: career defining masterpiece Lebron.

865
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:18,640
Speaker 22: No player has to play under the kind of scrutiny

866
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:21,600
Speaker 22: and pressure that you do. How do you stand and

867
00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:23,600
Speaker 22: deliver the kind of performance you did tonight.

868
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:26,480
Speaker 6: I just wanted to try to leave my team the

869
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 6: best way I could, whatever I needed to do out

870
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:30,440
Speaker 6: on the floor. I tried to be there for him

871
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:33,399
Speaker 6: to night, and you know, I'm glad we was able

872
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 6: to get this win and now you know, force the

873
00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 6: game seven.

874
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:39,160
Speaker 22: What is it like knowing that regardless of what happens

875
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:41,560
Speaker 22: with the team, the failure rests on your shoulders.

876
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:44,319
Speaker 6: Well, you know, I just go out and just do

877
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:45,759
Speaker 6: what I've been taught, and that's to play at a

878
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:47,960
Speaker 6: high level and have fun with it. And at the

879
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:50,680
Speaker 6: end of the day, I won't regret anything. If I

880
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Speaker 6: know I played hard and I gave it to my

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Speaker 6: own I won't regret anything, no matter the outcome. And

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Speaker 6: you know that's why I've been this whole season.

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Speaker 3: James didn't win the Gold Trophy yet, but as LeBatard explains,

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Speaker 3: he secured one important item, everyone's respect.

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Speaker 7: You rarely get the story arcs that go from your

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Speaker 7: mentally frail, your choker, your week. You're someone who can't

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Speaker 7: and doesn't know how to win a championship. To oh, Holy,

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Speaker 7: against my will, you have begrudgingly made me respect you.

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Speaker 7: I have to respect that because what I just saw

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Speaker 7: is something that knocked over any doubts I had about you,

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Speaker 7: your character, your strength, what you just did. And as

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Speaker 7: I recall that stat line, he wouldn't get a lot

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Speaker 7: of help in that game. That was just him again

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Speaker 7: and again and again with a Dwayne Wade who was,

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Speaker 7: you know, a little bit banged up, and I just

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Speaker 7: remember that he had what Tom Brady has, which is,

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Speaker 7: no matter how much you might hate this guy or

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Speaker 7: not want him to win, or think that he's got

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Speaker 7: athletic gifts that that are put by a crib in

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Speaker 7: a crib, by a holy man, that you have to

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Speaker 7: respect what you just saw.

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Speaker 3: Coach Spoe, Chris Bosh, and d Wade all saying Lebron's

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Speaker 3: praise is after the game, it.

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Speaker 11: Was he was absolutely fearless tonight and it was contagious.

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Speaker 11: Best I've seen, one of the best this league has

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Speaker 11: ever seen. And you know, he he's helped us a

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Speaker 11: lot so we can live to play another day. He

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Speaker 11: played amazing.

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Speaker 21: You know, he was locked in from the beginning of

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Speaker 21: the game like I've never seen him before. I Mean,

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Speaker 21: the shots he was making was you know, unbelievable. You know,

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Speaker 21: some good defense and he just he just made it. So,

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Speaker 21: you know, he really put on the MVP performance tonight,

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Speaker 21: and not just on not just scoring the ball, but

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Speaker 21: rebounding the ball defensively.

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Speaker 11: He did it all tonight, you know.

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Speaker 17: So it was great.

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Speaker 21: It was great to see him come out and lead

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Speaker 21: this team the way he did today. We just gave

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Speaker 21: him the ball and got out the way.

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Speaker 3: After a Game seven in Miami that's still provided more

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Speaker 3: tension than expected. The Heat actually trailed in the fourth

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Speaker 3: quarter of that game. Lebron in the Heat felt as

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Speaker 3: free as ever. They need to feel good about themselves too,

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Speaker 3: because the team they were about to meet in the finals,

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Speaker 3: the Oklahoma City Thunder team that was playing in Seattle

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Speaker 3: when Lebron first entered the league, they looked like they

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Speaker 3: could out heeat the Heat, bringing in a trio of

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Speaker 3: high end stars they drafted themselves. That team, led by

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Speaker 3: a young Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, and James Harden, would

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Speaker 3: put an immediate scare into the championship. Ready heat the

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Speaker 3: city Feller take came on, still to come on, four

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Speaker 3: years of heat.

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Speaker 12: Like I always want to leave my Mark in whatever championship,

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Speaker 12: whatever series. I mean, just so you could say we

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Speaker 12: need to rely on Mark.

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Speaker 11: On top of being the baddest man.

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Speaker 2: In the world. Now he's a champion, on top of.

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Speaker 6: It, you know, today being an NBA champion, you know,

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Speaker 6: you know that loss, you know, and that heartbreak was

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Speaker 6: the best thing that ever happened to me.

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Speaker 4: I'll admit.

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Speaker 2: That's the way I mean.

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Speaker 15: I'm sitting in Orland.

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Speaker 23: I'm saying, well, Lebron couldn't beat it in Cleveland, and

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Speaker 23: Chris couldn't beat us in Toronto, So yeah, run on

947
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Speaker 23: down to Miami and get some you know, get some

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Speaker 23: help from Dwayne, and now you guys can.

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Speaker 12: Be good if I bring that mentality into Miami, like I'm.

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Speaker 14: Supposed to play more, I'm supposed to start, I'm supposed

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Speaker 14: to do all these things.

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Speaker 15: Then I'm setting myself up for failure.

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Speaker 13: They was just assumed we were just gonna walk in

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Speaker 13: here and beat these people. And people don't understand you

955
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Speaker 13: add gasoline to the fire. We go in here and

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Speaker 13: play these teams.

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Speaker 14: We have Hall of Famers up and on the line,

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Speaker 14: we're defending champs, and we just got into a zone

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Speaker 14: and like I said, it was easy. It wasn't, but

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Speaker 14: it just felt like, Okay, yeah, we're gonna win every

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Speaker 14: single night.

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Speaker 15: We stuff on the floor.

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Speaker 3: Four years if he dies, A production of iHeartRadio and

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Speaker 3: the NBA