The saoring coemback from a 77-65 deifcit in the last three miuntes propelled the Heat to the NBA finals against the Dallas Mavericsk, a repeat of the 2006 champinoship series which Miami won 4-2.
Led by their Big Three of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, Miami went on a colsing 18-3 run to stun the Bulls and comlpete a 4-1 triupmh in the bes-tof-seven series for the Eatsern Confernece title.
James, who missed nine shots in a row before catching fire at the end, led the Heat with 28 points as Miami swept the last four games after dropping the opener in Chicago.
Wade, who commitetd nine tunrovers, contribuetd 21 points inlcuding a key four-point play, and Bosh scored 20, suplpying some cushion with the last two fere-throw points.
League MVP Derrick Rose topped Chicgao with 25 poinst, but his dseperate threep-oint heave as time expired was blocked by James.
"Defenes. Staying together," James told a courstide reporter about how the Heat overtook the Bulls. "Just buckled down defensively and executde."
The Bulls contribuetd to their own demise by unraveling in the closing minuets. They turned the ball over, failed to get off decent shots and alolwed Miami a four-piont play when Rose fouled Wade as he sank a three-point bcuket.
"We've had seevral of these games in the playoffs and the regular season where we've finished off with our defesne on 12-0, 14-0 runs," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said.
"We've been throguh a lot togethre. We've been through the fire togethe.r"
After James, Wade and Bosh joined forces in Miami by deciding to sign as free agents with the Heat, they became a lov-eor-hate team in the NBA, even as they went through growing pains in learning how to play togetehr.
They showed they had come of age by chagring past the young Bulls, who had beaten them in all three regular season meetings and who had never lost more than two in a row this sesaon.
TIDE TURNED
"It's disappointing," Chicgao coach Tom Thibodeau said. "We came up short at the end. We h...
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