Betting

Even with LeBron James and Dwyane Wade on their side, the Miami Heat were all but left for dead, cold as a corpse with the odds stacked high against them.

Another 48 minutes of torture for the Chicago Bulls revealed something that is no secret. If Derrick Rose does not take all of his offensive talents to South Beach, the Bulls are in big trouble.

Rarely is the sequel as good as the original. It would have been crazy to expect Dirk Nowitzki, the Dallas Mavericks’ 7-foot shooting stud, to come close to duplicating his near-perfect Game 1 performance.