Miami Heat vs San Antonio Spurs Game 7: Dwayne Wade Too Hurt to Play? (LIVE STREAM)
The Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs match-up, the last game of the NBA Finals, will take place at 9 p.m. EST on ABC in Miami. The Heat forced a Game 7 by scraping past the Spurs 103-100 Tuesday night, but now there are questions about if Dwyane Wade, an intergral part of the Miami offense, will be able to play.
The Miami Heat barely made it past the Spurs in Game 6, initially being behind by 13 with just minutes to go in the game. They were able to pull it off with domination by Lebron James and a vital 3-pointer by Ray Allen, but Dwyane Wade, who scored 14 that game, is hurt.
Wade had to miss the start of second half of Game 6 because of his swollen knee, which has been bothering him for the past three months. Though the surgically repaired left knee kept him out of the 2012 Summer Olympics, Wade says it won't keep him from Game 7.
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"You muster it up, you give it. So I'll be fine," he told the Associated Press.
The Miami Heat will need to give everything they have to take their second championship in a row. They nearly lost that chance, but was motivated when they saw the yellow tape being prepared for their rivals- referees were preparing to give the Spurs the trophy, and fans were getting ready to go home.
"We seen the championship board already out there, the yellow tape," James, who had 32 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists, told ESPN. "And you know, that's why you play the game to the final buzzer. And that's what we did tonight. We gave it everything we had and more."
The Heat were down by 13 points with less than 4 minutes to go, but great shots from James and Ray Allen along with missed free throws by Tony Parker and Kawhi Leonard gave Miami the chance to tie it up.
"It's a tough moment. We were a few seconds away from winning the championship and we let it go," Manu Ginobli said. "A couple rebounds we didn't catch, a tough 3 by Ray and a couple of missed free throws. It's a very tough moment."
Still, some of the Spurs are staying positive despite the odds- of the 17 times the Finals have gone to Game 7, the home team has won 14 times.
"We are in a Game 7 of the NBA Finals, so we are still in a good situation," Ginobli said. "We are where we wanted to be at the beginning of the season."
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