The Lawyer’s Well-Being Brief

What can we learn from the Miami Heat’s Game 6 loss and their Game 7 win?

“Give light and people will find the way.”- Ella Baker

Game 7, two of the most compelling words in sports. The Miami Heat, the No. 8 seed in the East, took a 3–0 series lead over the Celtics in the Eastern Conference Finals, but the team dropped three straight games (two at home), leading to a Game 7 at TD Garden in Boston on Memorial Day.

No team in the history of the NBA has ever won a series after being down 3–0, and Miami made sure that stayed intact, dominating the Celtics in Game 7. It was the team’s third road win of the series.

The Miami Heat had lost Game 6 at home when the Boston Celtics’ Derrick White got an offensive rebound on a missed shot and put it back as time expired for the win. After the crushing defeat, the Miami Heat Head Coach Erik Spoelstra quickly decided what to do after the loss. Nothing.

Spoelstra said, “It wasn’t scripted.” According to Spoelstra, “When you have such an intimate relationship with a locker room and they have it with each other, the staff has it with them, they have it with the staff, sometimes it’s just whatever’s raw, whatever’s real at that time.”