The Miami Heat signed the NBA’s biggest upset of the season at dawn on Wednesday. The Florida franchise won 126-128 in Milwaukee to finish the series 4-1 in their favor, pushing the top team of the regular season, Giannis Antetokounmpo’s Bucks, seeded first in the East, out of the playoffs. ‘ fell. It is the sixth time in NBA history that the player in eighth has lowered the best conference record on the first exchange. The Nuggets (1994), Knicks (1999), Warriors (2007), Grizzlies (2011) and Sixers (2012) have done it before. A feat achieved thanks to an indisputable Jimmy Butler. The Miami forward signed an outstanding 42-point game and forced overtime with an improbable basket 0.5 seconds from the final buzzer. The Heat bounced back from 16 points in the fourth quarter. Triple-double lead Bam Adebayo and Gabe Vincent helped look for that tying goal in the final stretch, but Butler was the one who orchestrated a performance that will go down in NBA history. Giannis Antetokounmpo, for his part, was not playing his best game, especially in extra time. The 2021 ring winner scored 38 points and grabbed 20 rebounds, but missed 13 free throws that would have sealed victory for the Bucks to take the series closer to that seventh and final game, with 10 of 23 from the free throw line in what which has become his particular Achilles heel. At the end of the match that confirmed the early elimination of one of the favorites for the title, Antetokounmpo left an unforgettable memory. A journalist asked him if he considered this defeat a failure, and the Greek argued: “You asked me the same question last year. Do you get a promotion at your job every year? No right? So every year you work is a failure? Yes or no?No, every year you work to achieve something, to achieve a goal: a promotion, taking care of your family…” Then he gave the example of the most important player in basketball history: “Michael Jordan played 15 years and won six championships. Were the other nine a flop? There is no failure in sport. There are good days and bad days, sometimes you succeed, other times you don’t. That’s what sport is all about,” concluded the Greek power forward. The Knicks return to semifinals result in a resounding 4-1. Also, mark the Memphis Grizzlies’ 99-116 win against the Lakers to tie the series to a tight 3-2 in favor of the California franchise. The Golden State Warriors also defeated the Sacramento Kings 123-116 to re-tie the global game at 3-2.
Source: La Verdad
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