Skip Bayless is picking the Miami Heat to beat the Denver Nuggets in the 2023 NBA Finals in six games.
Bayless tweeted “Heat in 6” after Miami won Game 2 in Denver.
The Heat stole home-court advantage in the Finals by winning Game 2 by three points. Miami outscored Denver 36-25 in the fourth quarter to come away with a huge road win.
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The best-of-seven series now shifts to South Beach.
“I just think nobody cares on our team,” Heat star Jimmy Butler said about the Heat’s critics. “We’re not worried about what anybody thinks. We’re so focused in on what we do well and who we are as a group that at the end of the day, that’s what we fall back on. Make-or-miss shots, we’re going to be who we are because we’re not worried about anybody else. That’s how it’s been all year long, and that’s not going to change.
“So that’s what I think it is. I think it’s the ‘I don’t give a damn’ factor.”
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Butler finished with 21 points and nine assists in Game 2. He played strong defense on Nuggets point guard Jamal Murray on the final possession of the game too. Murray missed a step-back 3-pointer at the buzzer which would have tied the game.
“I think he got off a decently good look,” Butler said. “Kind of like a high pick-and-roll isolation, and I just contested it. Pretty glad that he missed it to give us a 1-1 series tie going back to Miami.”
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The Heat have lost their last two games at home in the playoffs, while the Nuggets have won on the road in every series this postseason. Games 3 and 4 in Miami figure to be thrilling.
“We just made winning plays,” Heat center Bam Adebayo said. “We know they are going to try to stop Duncan from shooting threes. You know they are going to guard him. Then you have Jimmy slipping to the rim. I feel like I’m one of the great passers in this league, so just making plays down the stretch.”
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