The NBA playoffs are back with Game 3 for the Miami Heat and Indiana Pacers on the schedule and the eastern conference finals game will be streaming online live from ESPN and the WatchESPN website from 8:30 pm ET and is live from American Airlines Arena and has LeBron James heading up against Paul George and the series is tied 1-1 as each are looking for a 2-1 lead.
The Miami Heat came into the series with just one loss in the playoffs overall and that was to the Brooklyn Nets in the previous matchup in the eastern conference semifinals. Miami won over the Charlotte Bobcats in four games with a series sweep and then defeated the Brooklyn Nets in five games before advancing to face Indiana. The Pacers had a very tough road to the east finals and they lost the first game in each of the first two series against the Atlanta Hawks and the Washington Wizards and they ended up pulling things out and now they are up against the Heat.
Miami has been excellent at home this year in the playoffs and they are 5-0 at the arena and now they are putting that on the line on Saturday night and this could end up being the biggest game of the series. Miami can take the lead and they have done that in the past after losing the first game of the series over the past couple years and this comes as they are trying to win their third straight championship.
The team has been good after losses in the playoffs, but so have the Pacers, as they have won five games and lost zero after a loss in the playoffs during this postseason and that could give the team a boost on Saturday night. The Pacers and Miami Heat played in the conference finals last season and Miami is coming into a chance to play against the Spurs in the finals for the second straight season. The team also could matchup with the Oklahoma City Thunder and those are the last two teams to make it into the finals from the west.
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