Seven seconds.

The Miami Heat was seven seconds away from losing its NBA crown and watching the San Antonio Spurs celebrate a championship on its home court.

Heat fans were seven seconds away from having their hearts ripped out of their chests and their souls condemned to a weary and sullen existence, pondering the cruel fate of their beloved team.

This thing was over. Done. Kaput. The home crowd was exiting the building, the Spurs locker room was being covered in plastic for the champagne celebration, the ministage was being readied to be rolled out onto the court for the trophy presentation, yellow tape was being put out to keep nonessential personnel from walking onto the court during the Spurs coronation.

And then, it happened.

The comeback.

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As the Heat gets ready to take the floor for Game Six of the NBA Finals tonight, some players may have more on their minds than championship aspirations.

Like the possibility that they'll be wearing a Miami jersey for the last time.

We're not talking role players here either -- those changes are inevitable.

Simply making an appearance in the finals does not cut it in Miami, even if it is the team's third in a row. Not when Mickey Arison doles out that much cash to three players. Not when you win 27 games in a row and look bored with the rest of the league. Not when the best player in the world sets your championship expectations with "not one, not two, not three."

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Just as it was in Game 3 of these roller coaster NBA Finals, the San Antonio Spurs caught fire in Game 5, and torched the Miami Heat with a 60 percent shooting performance that has the world champs at the brink of total destruction.

The series switches back to Miami (finally!), and the Heat will now have to do something they haven't done since May 15: Win two games in a row.

Here's the rundown:

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Remember when Dwyane Wade was a liability to the Heat in these Finals and we all wrote him off, like a bunch of assholes? Pffft.

Wade dropped his pants, and then he dropped 32 points in Miami's 109-93 Game 4 beatdown of the San Antonio Spurs to even the series at two-games apiece.

MV3 turned on the Wayback Machine and partied like it was 2006, going 14-for-25 from the floor and leading the Heat past what has become a pain-in-the-ass Spurs team.

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The Miami Heat entered San Antonio for Game 3 looking to build on its Game 2 19-point blowout win and take a 2-1 series lead.

Instead, the Heat was routed 133-77, destroyed by a barrage of three-pointers from the Spurs that never seemed to end.

Every time you looked, the Spurs were hitting another three from downtown. Meanwhile, LeBron had himself a horrid game while his supporting cast continued to let him down.

Here's the rundown:

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With the Heat facing the prospect of having to travel to San Antonio down 0-2 in their best-of-seven NBA Finals series, Miami found itself in its most must-win game of the season on Sunday night.

The Spurs had come off a gut-punching victory over Miami in Game 1, highlighted by a Tony Parker's circus shot as time expired on the shot clock that Heat fans have had to watch replayed roughly 800,0000,0000,0000 times.

But then Game 2 arrived, and the Heat decided to play suffocating defense and shoot lights-out as it went on to blow San Antonio's assholes clean off in a 103-84 blowout.

The catalyst of the victory came after LeBron James ball-knocked the entire city of San Antonio in its collective nutsack with a block that devastated lives for generations to come and caused the oceans to boil, turned the moon to blood, and made the sun as black as sackcloth.

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The Miami Heat were off to a fast start in Game 1 of the NBA Finals. From the tip-off, they controlled the tempo, played strong defense, and actually hit open J's.

And then the fourth quarter happened.

And the Heat suddenly morphed into a bunch of assholes in sneakers.

And the Spurs' Tony Parker hit an impossible shot just as the shot clock expired.

And San Antonio took a 1-0 series lead.

Here's the rundown:

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Your Miami Heat is headed to its third-straight NBA Finals after vanquishing the Indiana Pacers in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals, 99-76.

While Indiana gave Miami all it could handle in this series, it was the Heat's stifling defense coupled with the world-devouring awesomeness of LeBron James, with a little vintage Dwyane Wade and the power of Jesus Shuttlesworth, that not only got the Heat the victory but allowed the Heat to completely annihilate the Pacers in this final and series-deciding game.

The Heat is now four wins away from winning back-to-back titles.

Here's the rundown:

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Floyd Mayweather Jr. ain't care.

The boxer -- who is known for laying down huge wagers on crazy shit -- has reportedly plunked down $5.9 Million dollars on tonight's Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals between the Miami Heat and Indiana Pacers.

And you're struggling to stay cool because your happiness and fandom are on the line with this game!

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After dropping Game 4 to the Indiana Pacers on Tuesday, the Heat found itself in a 2-2 tie in an Eastern Conference Finals that seemed to suffocate the life out of the world champs.

Although the series was knotted up, it felt like Indiana was having its way with Miami, man-handling the Heat players at every turn and devouring them with Treebeard Hibbert under the basket.

There were no answers.

No reason.

No hope.

And then LeBron James showed up to a pivotal Game 5 and proceeded to punch the Pacers square in the asshole, delivering a must-win with a performance for the ages.

Here's the rundown:

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