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FINAL SCORE: HEAT 120-107 WIN over Boston.
GAME OVER!!!
Allen goes to Celtic bench to acknowledge former coaches as the Boston team goes to the locker room
16.9 seconds left ....Heat inbound... Shot clock off. Bosh holds the ball... Fans get on Boston's case.
FLAGRAN 1 is the call! Two shots and the ball...
Rondo wrapped arm around Wade's neck.... Officials' taking a look at play to see if it's a flagrant 1 or 2...
Bosh with last 7 points for Heat.... Wade milking the clock...
:43.6 BOSH SEALS THE DEAL WITH JAM ON COURTNEY LEE!
1:06 Bosh at the line....1/2
1:10 Pierce gets tripled team down in the paint!
TIMEOUT CELTICS
1:15 left to play! HEATat the line... Bosh 2-2 from the line!
Bosh finishes on the other end... HEAT WITH BALL
FOUR POINT GAME!!!
2:30 left in the game! Wade with horrible shot... Lee with bucket!
Battier misses with the drive.... Barbosa finishes!
TIMEOUT HEAT!
4:27 Lee sinks the jumper
4:38 Wade taking free throws-- 1/2 from line
4:45 Barbosa with a three!
BEAUTIFUL FED FROM CHALMERS TO WADE for the layup!
Three second on Garnett-- Allen with free throws
6:00 LEFT TO PLAY Heat with ball
6:37 Barbosa continues hot shooting... 4-4 after jumper
7:06 Free throws coming as Rondo was fouled
Allen sinks free throw
7:32 Wade with difficult shot!.... Rondo gets a tech. Wanted foul as he thought Wade made contact on the shot 8:01 to play in the game... CELTICS------ TIMEOUT Three consecutive turnovers by Heat 8:24 Celtics attack after producing turover... Free throws for Green.. 2/2 Rondo scores with the drive to the bucket ----------TIMEOUT HEAT------- Lewis sinks three--- Barbosa answers back BARBOSA HAS SCORED THE LAST 9 POINTS for CELTICS 10:40 Barbosa sinks a three 11:14 Barbosa fouled... Two free throws... 1/2 James sinks a deep jumper... -----------------------------------------------END OF THE 3RD----------------------------------------- 03.2 seconds in shot clock... Lewis with the layup! HEAT RUNNING AWAY WITH IT! Chalmers sinks jumper off Garnett as shot clock was winding down TIMEOUT CELTICS 1:49 left in the 3RD Quarter 2:00 MINUTES!!!---- 24-second violation 2:15 Chalmers to Bosh for the JAM!! 2:50 Lewis with jumper... Rondon answers on other side LeBron James went to Miami locker room 3:37 Foul on Battier. Bass takes two... 2-2 4:24 Wide open jumper from left TIMEOUT HEAT Bosh calls timeout... Terry with a swat at the ball as Boshcalled timeout... Thought he was fouled on previous play 5:20 Rondo misses wide open three... James left him open 5:45 James answers back with long two! 6:00 Pierce works on Wade, hits the jumper! 6:31 Bass fouled by Battier after hard push on Chalmers 6:50 Battier misses three--- Wade tips it in! 7:08 Bass cleans up the board!! With the Jam!!! 7:27 Chalmer with the steal.. Garnett with hard foul... 2 free throws-- Good on both 7:43 Connects with three-pointer from outside! 8:20 AND-1! Wade banks off glass, draws contact, 4th foul on Lee and Wade makes free throw 8:37 Pierce fouled by Bosh now... Piece inbounds-- Rondo with floater! 9:06 Pierce will shoot three... 3-3 Rondo beats Chalmers for easy lay up 9:38 TIMEOUT CELTICS.... Doc not happy with Boston playing early on in third 10:00 Heat ball... James misses three... Celtics control THREE SECOND VIOLATION BY GARNETT 10:20 Celtics don't finish play.... Heat with the score 10:40 ....3.4 seconds on shotclock for Boston 11:17 James sinks a three and Bass gets the slam Check out first half stats--- Pierce and Lebron James leading the way for their clubs
Stats coming soon! ================================HALFTIME============================== :32 Block by Bosh.... LEBRON JAMES AT THE OTHER END WITH MOSTER DUNK!!! :53.4 left Allen at the line... 2-2 1:11 James with ball...gets pass back... Officiating very poor officiating on that possession... but Heat get ball back Garnett with wide open jumper 2:01 Wade fouled. 3rd on Rondo... 1-2 from line 2:13 Rondo at the line... 2-2 2:18 TIMEOUT CELTICS! 2:26 Wade with the lay up! Able to finish this time Allen sits out 11 points in 12 minutes played in first half 3:03 James goes back to the line, could not finish the shot after receiving contact... 2 Free throws coming.. GOD on Both! LEBRON WITH AN AND-1 after getting hit on short jumper -- Misses free throw 3:56 left in the 1st HALF 4:20 Rondo with easy lay in-- 2/2 from line 4:40 Miami on a 7-0 run now.... Bosh with easy dunk 5:00 Allen with another three at the buzzer! this one banked off the glass! LEBRON JAMES WITH THE FEED FROM BOSH! SLAM! 6:01 James called for foul on Pierce-- 2/2 from the line 6:21 Allen fouled 1-2 from line TIMEOUT HEAT as the Celtics have gone on brief run Rondo scores on the other end 6:49 WADE MISSES OPEN LAYUP!! Should have finished strong, but missed the easy put-in 7:22 Bass answers back with jumper 7:41 Ray Allen kisses short jump shot off the glass 2-2 from line 7:55 Chalmers with beautiful defense, but fouls Pierce... Two free throws coming 1-2 from the line for Lewis 8:14 Rondo defends Lewis and gets bodied to the ground, picks up a foul... Lewis at the line 8:26 Cole misses deep three... Terry drives again and draws foul... Two free throws coming.. Makes both 8:53 Terry drives. AND-1! Foul on Wade... At the line... Connects 9:15 Lewis helps on defense with a muff!! TIMEOUT CELTICS------------------------------------ 9:20 COLE WITH THE THREE! 9:49 Celtics inbounds--- Turnover.., Sloppy basketball --Three-second violation-- Terry takes tech free... Connects. 10:00 Terry and Wade exchange buckets Barbosa brings ball up for Celtics 10:32 Cole steps out of bounds... Boston ball FOUL ON MIAMI 10:53.... Boston returns the favorTerry committs offensive foul 11:10 Lewis with deep two... Garnett scores 11:20 Green at the line, drew foul on Wade...1-2 from the line 11:37 Wade at the line... KG with two fouls ...Wade connects 1st... 2-2 from FT line 11:50 Heat control.... Wade fouled ------------------------------------------------END OF THE 1ST QTR--------------------------------------------------- Terry misses :25 seconds connects two free throws.... "We Love Ray" chants ring around the arena :46.2 wide open jumper! :58 Pierce running with the JAM!! 1:40 Allen connects from the corner for his first points as a Heat as the shot clock was winding down 2:15 Sullinger with the slam! Wade at the line... Ray Allen at the game TAPPED GARNETT ON THE BENCH AND KG IGNORED HIM!! Both teams exchange baskets... Heat lead by one... 4:00 Miami scores on back-to-back possession 5:00 Bosh with a short jumper 5:45 Lee knocks down the three! 6:26 Garnett with travel.... Heat miss.... Celtics turnover... Chalmers with the GREAT FINISH!! 6:45 Wade scores 7:00 Wade with another tunrover.... Lee with a shot 7:10 BASS WITH THE SLAM! 7:30 Bass fouls LeBron (MVP CHANTS RING AS JAMES SHOOTS FT) Connects on both 8:00 Celtics inbound.... Rondo brings it up... Has metalic Foamposites One in pink LeBron with the ball... Gives it to Dwayne... Wade loses ball 8:32 Foul on KG! Heat ball 8:35 Battier answers back! THREE! 9:00 PIERCE ON FIRE! Another three--- 8 points in first three minutes of the game. 9:31 Pierce drives and connects with layup 9:44 James knocks down jumper for first points of season 10:01 Pierce knocks down a three giving Celtics the lead 11:00 Pierce with a block on Chalmers! Celtics control 11:50 Heat come up with two blocks and Battier then knocks down a three Celtics Heat I will try my best to update as many lead changes as I can. Startin rotations coming in a little while Tipoff is minutes away. ------------------------------WELCOME TO THE LIVE BLOG OF Celtics vs. Heat--------------------------------------- The NBA season starts today as the Boston Celtics visit Eastern Conference rival Miami Heat for their first games of 2012-2013 in opening night for both teams. The Celtics feel that the Heat owe them and worse of all for them, they feel that one of their own betrayed them as Ray Allen left to the Heat during the offseason. Bad ankles and all, the Miami Heat feel that Allen will provide a punch beyond the arc. Along with Allen, though not producing feelings as bitter as Ray going to Miami, the Heat signed another sharp shooter, Rashard Lewis who is also a product of the Seattle Super Sonics, way back when. The best player in the world, LeBron James and Dwayne Wade will get back to work as they will try to get defend their NBA title. They will seek their third NBA Finals appearance this season. Rajon Rondo, Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett are still in Boston and they really want to get back at the Heat for eliminating them in the 2012 Eastern Conference Finals in seven games. Rondo and Garnett led the team, while Pierce struggled, but hit pivotal shots. Rondo is probably the best point guard in the league right now and is only getting better. Join us as we will bring you live scores and everything from the beginning of the opening night ceremonies to the final buzzer marking the conclusion of the game. Refresh the page and scroll to the top of the article for the latest updates of the game. The ring and banner raising ceremony started off in a bit of a bad note with NBA Commissioner David Stern saying "Hurrican Katrina" instead of Hurricane Sandy. He wanted to send his thoughts out to those affected by the storm. Fans were confused and the murmurs were heard. With the lights off in the American Airlines Arena, Kanye West's and Rihanna's "All of the Lights" blasted on the sound system. The entire Heats staff is currently receiving their rings. Heat players currently getting their rings... Pittman, Anthony, James Jones getting theirs. All you hear is "UUUU!" As Udonis Haslem received his ring. Huge ovasion for Mike Miller. Battier blowing kisses. Chris Bosh, hopefully he doesn't make a weird face for fans to make fun of him via memes. Wade gets huge ovasion, but it is eclipsed as LeBron James gets his ring. Has an extended word with David Stern. Banner being raised... We are the Champions" is played as championship banner is very slowly raised. Ceremony concludes with fireworks blasting.
BOSTON CELTICS
FIELD GOALSREBOUNDS
POS
MIN
FGM-A
3PM-A
FTM-A
+/-
OFF
DEF
TOT
AST
PF
ST
TO
BS
BA
PTS
P. Pierce
F
20:26
4-9
2-3
6-6
-8
0
4
4
1
1
1
0
0
0
16
B. Bass
F
18:08
4-9
0-0
0-0
-5
4
3
7
1
2
0
1
0
2
8
K. Garnett
C-F
14:34
2-5
0-0
0-0
-8
1
5
6
1
2
0
3
1
0
4
C. Lee
G-F
12:45
3-4
1-1
0-0
-7
0
0
0
1
3
0
1
0
0
7
R. Rondo
G
19:33
3-5
0-0
2-2
-8
0
2
2
8
3
0
2
0
0
8
J. Sullinger
08:06
1-2
0-0
0-0
-3
0
1
1
0
1
0
0
0
1
2
J. Terry
11:15
2-4
0-2
4-4
-1
0
0
0
1
2
1
3
0
0
8
J. Green
11:39
0-4
0-0
1-2
-2
0
3
3
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
MIAMI HEAT
FIELD GOALSREBOUNDS
POS
MIN
FGM-A
3PM-A
FTM-A
+/-
OFF
DEF
TOT
AST
PF
ST
TO
BS
BA
PTS
L. James
F
18:33
6-10
0-0
4-5
+13
1
8
9
2
0
2
0
0
1
16
S. Battier
F
16:39
2-2
2-2
0-0
+8
0
2
2
1
1
1
0
0
0
6
C. Bosh
F
17:41
3-7
0-1
0-0
+7
1
3
4
1
1
0
0
2
0
6
D. Wade
G
17:43
4-9
0-0
5-6
-3
1
0
1
3
2
2
3
1
0
13
M. Chalmers
G
15:28
1-4
0-1
0-0
+4
0
1
1
3
2
1
0
0
0
2
R. Allen
13:55
3-5
2-3
5-6
+5
0
2
2
0
1
0
0
0
0
13
U. Haslem
06:19
0-1
0-0
0-0
+1
0
2
2
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
R. Lewis
07:21
1-1
0-0
1-2
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
3
N. Cole
06:21
1-2
1-2
0-0
+5
0
0
0
1
2
0
1
0
0
3
Pierce, Bass, Garnett, Lee, Rondo
James, Battier, Bosh, Wade, Chalmers
