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Playoffs in January?
About as close as you're going to get in the NBA.
On a day the NFL and NHL offered gloried exhibitions of All-Star triteness, the Miami Heat and Chicago Bulls offered true grit Sunday at AmericanAirlines Arena.
Playoffs in January?
You bet, all the way to the finish of a 97-93 Heat victory that sent a message to the rest of the Eastern Conference that there is us and then everybody else.
"In many regards," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said, "it was a typical Miami-Chicago basketball game."
The odds of anyone else defeating one of these teams four times in a playoff series? Scant.
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