Miami Heat sport the league's best record this year with 66 wins, and that included the much talked about 27 game win streak.

The Heat are 40-2 when this guy plays since February.



Lebron is unquestionably the greatest basketball player in the world, and is now already entering the conversation of greatest ever.

His supporting cast isn't shabby either, led by Dwyane Waids





and Chris Bosh



Will we finally see Coach Spo give the Birdman real minutes as they face a frontcourt that could give them problems?



The Indiana Pacers quietly had a very good year, and had a good look at the #2 seed before a late season slump.

The Pacers sport arguably the league's best defense, led by these two stoppers:





Can Mount Hibs continue his play at a level that would make him this year's most disruptive playoff defensive player? Can he keep Lebron/Wade out of the paint?

Also, this guy, the all-star:



WHO YOU GOT

Nice thread C-Vig!

Hoping for epic series but expect to be disappoint! LeBron and heat just too good!!

Nice thread. Heat in 5

Live in the nap. Love the pacers and the way things have turned around over the years. That being said, the heat are pretty damn good. It'll be tough for the pacers to pull it out.

Pacers in 7

Labrons in 5

Looks like IND is +465 or so? Seems like value imo. Pacers are sick good defensively and could legit **** this team up.

Still rooting for the Heat though

Heat are 40-2 with Lebron playing since Feb. Don't think they are gonna lose 4 of 7 to the Indiana Pacers, as good as they might be

Heat in 6

I'm very interested to see how Spoelstra sets his lineups. I really hope he doesn't try to go big, I think the Heat are a lot better off staying small. The Pacers are one of the worst teams at turning the ball over in the league and that's ultimately where the series turned around last year. Haslem should never play but I'm sure he will. Bosh and Andersen should really be the only bigs playing. The Chalmers/Wade/LeBron/Battier/Bosh lineup should be able to find a lot of open looks from 3 with Hibbert and DWAS out there and it's so hard to get good looks from 3 against Indiana that I think you have to take advantage of that lineup.

Heat in 4

WTF at Wade's pants.

Pacers gonna make this closer than people think. Definitely a favorite to extend past 5 games. I think it goes 7.

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Not this!

Heat in 5
Labron GOAT
Lol refs

all the correct answers

LOL Geddy and Das Boot trolling w/ the Pacers sweeping!

that birdman pic is amazing

heat in 5 or 7. cant see them sweeping bc indy plays so well at home. so basically it comes down to a few things:

1) how well will wade play? how healthy is he? he's quietly been awful thus far in the postseason. 49.3% TS and almost 20% TOV rate. yikes

2) wat vogel decides to do with george/hibbert. it seems to me that hibbert should focus all of his energy on helping when lebron/wade drive and on the offensive glass. make lebron have to use more energy on the defensive glass and his offense will suffer. will he put george on wade and completely take him out of the series? or will he put george on lebron and try to slow him down? id vote wade but thats just me.

3) how well the heat role players play. chalmers (23%)/allen (38%)/battier (26%) have all been struggling from 3. that can't happen if they want to win this series, or at least win it easily.

4) pacers bench. they suck, and the starters have been playing huge minutes. how much do they have left in the tank? can the bench step up and make it a bit easier on them?

should be an exciting series, i think the pacers are being slept on.

Dean- PM or skype me your paypal, i owe you some nickels right?

Pacers in 4

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F the heat

Indiana in a comfortable sweep. Not a single player on the pacers breaks a sweat in the 4 games. It's so easy for them that they actually get out of shape during the series, and have to do extra cardio after each game.

the pinny line is +425/-575, so vig free is ~ +447. i'll sell indy +450 to whoever wants it

I think this is marginally +EV, but my labroner keeps me from wagering against El Heat

Heat in 7. Get ready for some WOAT/GOAT WAIDSing

If the HEAT manage to pull off a miracle and win this series, I got WADE as the series MVP.

Labron has got the heat to this point. Confirmed WADE time.