The Heat are catching it from the Bulls. They look OLD.....very OLD against the Bulls.

I love seeing Kobe get his ASS kicked.

sweet said:

Not only did they make the playoffs, but they are one of the hottest teams in the league going into the playoffs....as evidenced by beating Dallas in game 1 at Dallas..

Look out for the Warriors, they just might do some damage this year!

Moonbeam said:

Well I guess that is not going to happen

Moonbeam said:

Hold on there, not so fast....Dallas has to get past the Warriors first....not going to be an easy task.

Especially since the Warriors stole home court advantage by winning game 1 in Dallas. Plus the Warriors have Beaten Dallas 6 in a row, including the playoffs.

jerseykrs said:

Sharks baby! Bring on the sorry ass Red Wings!

applekisses said:

It's all about the SHARKS!

Sowhat said:

Since our teams seem to keep meeting in the playoffs, Athletics vs Tigers (yeah you guys took that one); Sharks vs Red Wings (here is where I get my revenge), we should place a friendly bet or two?????







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Go Lakers!!!

Sowhat said:

I'm very happy to be wrong!

Seeing the Lakers get blown out brings a tear to my eye. Now they're down 11-0 in Game 3.

Damn, Houston blew their chance tonite to go up 3-0.

Sowhat said:

Looks like it's going seven games. Warriors are showing Dallas no respect.


...and the Heat are just about done.

I cannot believe the Bulls had the balls 2 win on the road.

Graycap23 said:

As you said earlier, the Heat look old, and the Bulls are loaded with young talent.

Plus they get the Knicks pick...f-n Isiah.

The Warriors embarrassed Dallas in Game Three. They may pull it off.

Moonbeam said:

Miami's on the verge of getting swept. They're down by five with 3:17 to go.

I have not been this PROUD of the Bulls since Jordan it his last jumpshot in a Bulls uniform. I love it.

Graycap23 said:

Bulls vs. Pistons...just like old times.

uPtoWnNY said:

Yes...and the Bulls are NOT scared with Ben wallace on the team. It's going 2 be good. My fear is that the Pistons have MONEY players and The bulls don't.

Pistons all the way!!!!!

Bulls sweep Heat; Pistons up next

Miami held scoreless last 2:32

The Associated Press
Published April 29, 2007, 3:43 PM CDT

MIAMI -- The Bulls swept the defending NBA champion Miami Heat out of the playoffs, winning a postseason series for the first time since the Michael Jordan era.

Ben Gordon scored 24 points, Luol Deng had 22 points and 11 rebounds and the Bulls beat Miami 92-79 Sunday in Game 4 to finish off their first-round Eastern Conference series. The Bulls, who will face Detroit in the second round, became the first team to oust a defending champion in the opening playoff series since Phoenix did it to San Antonio in 2000.

The coach of that Suns team? Scott Skiles, who coaches the Bulls now -- and who put together a plan that simply befuddled Miami all series long.

"It's an accomplishment," Skiles said. "We're in a funny position here. We want to enjoy it. It was great. We played well. We played hard all four games. We deserved to win -- but we want to keep playing. ... We know what we're facing now. We want to keep moving on."

Dwyane Wade scored 24 points for Miami on 8-for-22 shooting, and added 10 assists. Shaquille O'Neal had 16 points, Alonzo Mourning scored 14 and James Posey had 18 rebounds -- a club playoff-record 17 on the defensive end -- for the Heat.

The Bulls became the 80th consecutive NBA team to advance after taking a 3-0 lead in a series; only three teams in major pro sports have overcome such a deficit, and the Heat won't be joining the 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs, 1975 New York Islanders and 2004 Boston Red Sox in that exclusive club.

"Somewhere in the NBA it's going to happen," Heat coach Pat Riley said before Sunday's game. "One day, one team, will do that."

Not this day. And not this team. Riley shook Skiles' hand at midcourt when it was over, whispered a few words of encouragement, and then he and the Heat headed to their locker room -- without their crown.

"We ran into more than a formidable opponent," Riley said. "They are a great team. ... They deserved to win. There's no doubt in my mind. They can go a long way."

Miami, which didn't trail until late in the third quarter, got within one point twice in the fourth -- first on a jumper by Wade with 11:15 left, then when Posey made a pair of free throws with 5:27 remaining. The Bulls had an answer both times, and left celebrating -- just as it did on Oct. 31, when it opened the season with a 108-66 stunner on the Heat's home floor.

This one was much closer -- but hurt the Heat, who were 1-7 overall against the Bulls this year, so much more.

"They had our number, first game of the season," O'Neal said. "And they had our number the rest of the season. They just had our number."

Wade scored with 2:32 left to get Miami within 84-79, and the Heat then turned to the Hack-a-Ben strategy -- intentionally fouling the Bulls' Ben Wallace, a notoriously terrible foul shooter -- with hopes of getting the ball back.

But Wallace made all four of his tries within a 21-second span to push the lead to nine, and the white-clad Heat crowd began shuffling into the offseason. All Miami could do was stare in silence at the final seconds of an injury-plagued year that simply never went its way.

"Tonight, they went down for me," Wallace said after his 7-for-8 effort from the line. "I might not make them tomorrow, but tonight, they went down."

Wallace finished with 13 points and 11 rebounds and Andres Nocioni had 11 points the Bulls, who committed only five turnovers while forcing 17.

"This is a great feeling. We're some place we've never been before," Deng said. "The guys made it a goal at the beginning of the season to get back to this spot, and it worked out that we played them in the first round."

Miami scored the game's first eight points, the first six of those coming from O'Neal -- who was 6-for-7 in the opening half. But the Bulls coolly withstood the opening burst and knotted the game at 14 when Gordon hit his second 3-pointer of the quarter with 5:30 left, the first of four ties in the half.

The Bulls never led in the first half and trailed 48-44 at intermission, but probably felt quite good about the second quarter.

The Bulls made only 33 percent of their shots in that period, compared to 64 percent shooting by the Heat. The Bulls still outscored Miami 21-20 in the second, because it took 24 attempts (making eight) and saw the Heat manage only 11 field-goal tries -- a number limited by seven turnovers in the quarter.

Plus, the Heat were plagued again by their free throw shooting. After going 16-for-35 from the line in Friday's eight-point Game 3 defeat, Miami was 8-for-17 in the first half. O'Neal and Mourning, the Heat centers, were 10-for-11 from the field in the first 24 minutes, but 2-for-10 from the line in the same span and 2-for-14 for the game.

And in the third, after spending 33 minutes chasing Miami, the Bulls got their first lead when Deng hit a jumper with 2:45 left. It was Deng's third basket in an 11-2 Bulls run to end the third quarter, and when Chris Duhon hit a 3-pointer with 2.6 seconds left, the Bulls had a 68-64 lead entering the fourth.

They didn't trail again. And the so-called Baby Bulls -- a young team that had endured two straight first-round ousters, including last year against Miami in six games -- officially grew up.

"They showed signs of maturity," said Wallace, who now gets to face his old team, the Pistons, with a trip to the Eastern Conference finals at stake. "I like to see that."

I watched the 2nd half of Golden State vs. Dallas, GREAT GAME I hope they can just get it DONE next game & go on to the next round. Sorry Dallas

CalhounSq said:

Last year the Lakers were up 3-1 on the Suns, and look what happened. Warriors can't take the foot off the pedal. Go to Dallas and take care of business.

uPtoWnNY said:

Dude, the Warriors better act like this is the last game they'll EVER play It's still a long road after this to even get close, so they better take it game by game & do the damn thing

Dallas is definitely still in this, but when Davis hit that half-court shot at the buzzer to tie it up at the half, it was like the basketball gods were smiling on Golden State. Damn, that was sweet.

oh, and Charles Barkley can kiss my ass!

Stax said:

& the way he threw it was like he wasn't even trying That shot was NUTS...

Stax said:

That Krispy Kreme shit was funny though He seemed drunk tonight or something, he was slurring his words a bit & couldn't get his thoughts out easily