The Miami Heat was the number eight seed in their conference but overcame those long odds to make it into the finals against the formidable Denver Nuggets.
Here & Now‘s Robin Young gets the latest on the NBA championship games, which begin Thursday night, from columnist and professor A. Sherrod Blakely.
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