Timeout now for a few words about the NBA 2020 Coda/2021 Preview Finals Or Whatever, which will pit the Miami Heat against LeBron James and Anthony Davis.
Doesn't seem like a fair fight, a whole team against two guys. But nobody can still handle LeBron even at his advanced age, and A.D. is pretty much unstoppable anywhere on the floor, so mayb--
I'm sorry. What was that?
Oh, right, it's not just LeBron and A.D. vs. the Heat. It's the Los Angeles Lakers against the Heat, even if you'd be excused for thinking of the Lakers as LeBron, A.D. and Them Others.
Conventional wisdom probably says Them Others will get rings because of LeBron and A.D., but I wouldn't put the whole wad down on CW. This Heat team is exactly that, a team, and they can hurt you anywhere on the floor you want to play, and if you start thinking they're just Jimmy Butler everywhere and Bam Adebayo defending the rim, they'll bring a Tyler Herro off the bench to light you up from the arc.
Herro did just that to the Celtics in Game 4, when the 20-year-old shooting guard came off the bench to score 37 points and put Boston down three-games-to-one in the Eastern Conference finals. So the Heat have that going for them and Jae Crowder and Andre Iguodala and Goran Dragic and an all-for-one, one-for-all locker room culture -- plus a head coach, Erik Spoelstra, who has never gotten his due in the Blob's humble opinion.
I don't know if all that's enough to keep LeBron's mitts off his fourth title. But I sure wouldn't sleep on 'em at this point.
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