{"id":5193,"date":"2013-06-19T09:25:03","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T09:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/nba-miami-heat-force-game-seven-with-spurs\/"},"modified":"2013-06-19T09:25:03","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T09:25:03","slug":"nba-miami-heat-force-game-seven-with-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/nba-miami-heat-force-game-seven-with-spurs\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA: Miami Heat force Game Seven with Spurs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MIAMI (AFP) – LeBron James says the Miami Heat started seeing red when officials began prepping the court for the San Antonio Spurs’ victory celebration with less than a minute left in game six of the NBA finals.<\/p>\n
With the Spurs ahead by five points, 94-89, with just 28 seconds left in the fourth quarter, American Airlines arena officials began surrounding the playing surface with yellow tape to keep the spectators from rushing the court.<\/p>\n
James said once the Heat players witnessed the decorations going up they decided the Spurs weren’t going to partying on their home court.<\/p>\n
“There’s a few guys in the locker room (after the game) that talked about it,” James said. “We saw the championship board already out there and the yellow tape.<\/p>\n
“That’s why you play the game, to the final buzzer. And that’s what we did tonight. We gave it everything that we had and more.”<\/p>\n
Ray Allen drained a three pointer with five seconds left to send it into overtime and James hit the game-winning jump shot with 1:43 remaining in overtime as the defending NBA champs rallied from a 13-point deficit to beat the Spurs 103-100 and forced a game seven. <\/p>\n