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The scoreboard broke during crucial minutes of the fourth quarter on Tuesday night at AmericanAirlines Arena. It was pretty much the only thing rusty about the Heat’s first home game in six months.
The Heat and Celtics treated fans to a brilliant display of early season basketball despite both sides being only two games into a schedule delayed and truncated by the lockout. In a rehash of the playoff meeting between the rivals, the Heat was pushed but never seriously threatened, defeating Boston 115-107.
The sellout crowd, juiced for the return of basketball, made it feel like a playoff game. The Heat dominated for long stretches in the first half and third quarter, but the Celtics cut the deficit to three points with less than two minutes remaining. With that, all the...
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