logic prevailed in the semifinals of the Eastern Conference with the Chicago Bulls and Miami Heat won their respective heats, they will decide after Sunday's who will be the new champion who occupy the seat vacated by the Boston Celtics.
The Heat team that their star forward LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and power forward Chris Bosh eliminated in the semifinals to win the series 4-1 and showing that they were better in the decisive moments.
Now the new "Big Three" of the Eastern Conference, who occupied the post of veteran version representing the Celtics power forward Kevin Garnett, forward Paul Pierce and guard Ray Allen, will be challenged to overcome the team ended the regular season with the best record in the season (62-20).
But he has had problems and inconsistency in their respective series they have played, first against the Indiana Pacers, and then against the Hawks Atlanta, which last night won the sixth game by 93-73 to win the series 4-2.
The Heat are a very different and better in the final stretch of the regular season as demonstrated after removal of 4-1 to the Celtics, who were the team to beat in the Eastern Conference since the start of the season.
The way the Heat got a partial of 16-0 against the Celtics in the final four minutes of the fifth game to win by 97-87 must be a reference to take into account the Bulls if they will not immediately lose the advantage of field.
Bulls coach, rookie Tom Thibodeau, who won the Coach of the Year, is aware that the Heat have nothing to do with the Hawks and is therefore is the real test so far of the final phase.
think so also the star base of the Bulls, Derrick Rose, who at 22 years and is holding the Most Valuable Player award (MVP) in the league, the youngest to achieve that in NBA history , and key to Chicago's team return to the Eastern Conference final for the first time since 1998.
"There will be a fun battle," said Rose at the end of the sixth game of the semifinals against the Hawks in Atlanta. "It's a very special and entertaining match. The Heat are a great team. They're playing very well and I think we.
If there is to be guided by the results and statistics both teams enter the regular season, the Bulls are the favorites, having won all three clashes.
However, none of them reflected the score difference greater than four points, which means that the Heat also had all the options to achieve victory.
addition, the Bulls had the best record in the league in its field with 41-6, but the Heat fell to the second as the visiting team to get a record of 30-15, something that can not go unnoticed by Thibodeau.
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addition, the show also will be full of interesting aspects that will make it more attractive as Wade gets to see his hometown, as well as Rose.
Managers of the Bulls met him twice during the summer to convince him to sign with them and wear the uniform of the team who always said he had "admired".
But the offer he was the president of the Heat, Pat Riley, to put peer to James and Bosh, could more than get to join Rose and young talents now have the Bulls, who also wanted to two companions of the "Beach Boys" before they were to decide to take their talent to South Florida.
addition, individual duels between Rose and James, who feels that the new figure of the Bulls took the MVP award, will be guaranteed, as well as Bosh when he takes power forward Carlos Boozer, the free agent if he said if the Chicago team to leave the Utah Jazz.
James Rose broke a streak of winning the MVP award that he had gotten the 2009 and 2010 seasons with the Cleveland Cavaliers. James had
and his little compensation when unveiled NBA First Team and was elected unanimously to the same with one more vote than Rose (118 of 119).
A level team, the Bulls have been given the great opportunity to get the ticket to the NBA Finals for the first time since Michael Jordan and Scottie base Pippen achieved the sixth title in the 1998 season.
While the Heat seek their second title since 2006 when they won the first against the Dallas Mavericks in what will be their fourth conference finals in its history.
James still seeking its first league title as a professional and hence leave the Cavaliers, although brought to the NBA Finals sweep losing 4-0 to the San Antonio Spurs in 2007.
the Heat's star is aware of all these individual and team challenges that face the Heat and that is why despite having eliminated the defending champion Celtics, Eastern Conference, "James recalled that the challenges had not begun.
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