Miami Heat's Improbable Playoff Run | 8th Seed to NBA Finals 🔥

Advances to the playoffs as the 7th seed, Bay lines it up, too strong, offensive rebound Collins, bounces for Bay, who slams it down! It's the same highlight over and over again for the Hawks. Hero shows defensively, Murray fends him off, shot clock is down to three, Murray crosses, Murray, tough delivery! High off the window, DeJounte Murray, and the Hawks are cooking. Murray, the jumper, short, rebound, again the Hawks have it, Collins scores in the foul! Atlanta advances to the NBA playoffs, 116-105. The Hawks will be the 7th seed, they will meet the Boston Celtics in the first round, Miami is going to have to get it done on Friday night. Good stuff there, Chris, good reporting, that'll be something to watch for sure, Lowry coming off a 33-point game Tuesday. Here's DeRozan again, he's fouled! Butler able to drive. Strews, set up by O'Hero and Mark on the floor, Butler taking on Caruso! 0-5 for 17 overall, struggle for him. Jimmy Butler leaps! Strews has the screener for Butler, and forces switch. Lost Caruso! Jimmy Butler, Butler spins, nothing there, Butler! Great move, and then take the contact for a good finish. Matchup, great defender, playmaker, Butler gives it up, Max Strews for 3! And now he's trying to send the Bulls home, 12-1 run for the Heat, Levine goes quick! Here by Adebayo, he's done tonight, because it's been a rough night for him offensively. At the end of the year, those guys haven't played a game in quite a while. Look for Miami to have a great shot in game one in Milwaukee. That's it, the Miami Heat advance, they will occupy the eighth seed as they come out of the play-in. And now they will take on the top seed, the Milwaukee Bucks. Right down, and drives into Love. And Yanis is hurt. And Yanis... I think he's holding them back. He is. Gets up very slowly, Lopez with it, he traveled. And Hero is holding on to his hand. He is in trouble. He's on his way back to the locker room. He ran right to the locker room. Down chased and saved by Lopez, and intercepted by Robinson. Lowry to Butler, and Butler pulls up over Holiday. 39, shot clock at 9. Middleton with Butler's flatters there. 46 points for Jimmy Butler. He's going to get an easy lay-in. Score is correct. The six-point performance in this game four. Didn't take any of the fakes to finish it off with a defensive rebound. Textbook. Butler is inside again, and won! Oh, wow. These Miami Heat will not go away. Adebayo brings it up. Butler on the wing, over Holiday. Got it! Here we go. Here comes Vincent. But he can't do his foul. For Matthews, and good! Wow. Vincent! Big shot from Gage. He's got 22, that's a postseason career high. Oh, no, they turned it over! Lowry had it, and he lost it. I think the foul's on Middleton. They called out a foul on Lowry. I think that's the way it's supposed to go. The defender gets his hand on the ball and deflects it away. This is a legal defensive play by Kyle Lowry. The challenge is successful. Buck sees it on the line. And he lost it. Into the seats, saved it to Drew Holiday. You okay, boss? Came right over at us. And right here, Giannis didn't want to get fouled, so he hopitated it at Middleton with the play of the game, which was a save. It has to be great. Over the top to Butler. What's going on is Jimmy Butler. And overtime in Game 5. Jimmy Butler runs a little bit of a circle cut. Looks like he's going to go to the corner, circles back, and it's a lob play. But he couldn't keep it inbounds. It's back to Miami. Inside, Zeller with the flush. And that was all off the Jimmy Butler cut. Two-point game. Butler steps in front. Middleton. At a time, the Bucks don't get off it. Become the sixth in NBA history to win as an eighth seed in the first round. Top. Trying to ice it and send him to the baseline. He gets to the middle. Whistle, foul. And did he turn his ankle on that? Boy, we hope not. But he's holding his lower right leg. And Butler, it appeared as if he turned it, Doris. Saw that happen in real time. And this does not look good for Miami. Here's Lowry. Seven on the shot clock. They've got to get to work. Off the Adebayo screen. Tough baseline. Got it! Come on. Kyle Lowry, the veteran. And finish that, even though it was a difficult shot inside. One-point game. Knicks in front. Randle backing in. Off the double-team. Jumper hard. Splash! Kicks it out quickly. Short on the three. Got his own miss. Puts it back up and in. Great hustle by him. And contact under the basket. Tempers Flair, which we expected at some point in this series. Security gets on the floor. Eric Spoelstra out there as well, peeling his player Cody Martin away from Hardenstein. Now Tom Thibodeau has walked down court. See, also that Zeller was in that. Grimes trying to fight through that Martin screen. Butler, kick, Martin, drive, and slam! This is not a replay over and over again. It's the same story. Butler! One-twelve to go. Butler traps. Finds Vinson. Vinson on the attack. At a bio! Brunson to inbound. Gets it to Randle. Gets it right back. Brunson. Bounces underneath and Harden lays it in. It's a two-point game. Do not want to give up a three at any cost. Brunson. Spinning. Brunson. Leaning. Shoveling into traffic. He turns it over. Brunson turns it over. And Butler is fouled. Struis gets it ahead. Here is Vinson. And that is it. The Miami-Dade Eastern Conference Finals. By five threes, that just doesn't happen to the Celtics. At a bio. Matching his way into Horford. Shot clock at three. Butler with Brogdon on him. It's a long three. And Goal! Puts it in. And that'll be number three. Shot clock running down. And it's the Butler who did it. Wow. Touches every inch of that rim. The shot made by Williams. And look at the words. Williams. And Jimmy Butler is smiling about it. And then here's the contact at the ensuing play. And let's go head-to-head, guys. Thank you. And the New York Knicks in the second round. Butler will take it into the defense of Grant Williams. Shot clock at four. Here he accelerates and finds two. Uh-oh. And gave him the too-small sign. Screen. Williams, the defensive assignment. This is what he wants. Inside for the lead. That's what he wants. Grant Williams on him. Shot clock at three. Butler will chisel. And it's Gabe Vinson. Setting up two-point shot. But Gabe Vinson. Are you kidding me? Contact in the potential and one. Great job against the zone, though. Getting the ball to Tatum right there at the wheel. And then a great defensive play. Right there in the lane. On the baseline. Front baseline. Good feed by Horford. That affects everything. Tatum. He'll put up a three. Got it. And he knew that Vinson was going to be able to contest that shot. Oh, my goodness. It has never happened, as we've mentioned multiple times. A team coming back down three games to none. And again. In an NBA playoff series. We can't stress enough. Four of the last five times, Boston's been. Four-point game, less than a minute to go. Hatchets his way inside. Will defend Tatum. Shot clock at four. Tatum. Inside. Robinson on the drive by Smart. Butler has scored two of the last 12 points for Miami. To unpack here on this play by Jimmy Butler, certainly there's contact in the foul by Al Horford. It was called a two on the floor. But look at the feet of Butler. Clearly, in my opinion, he's behind the three-point line. This should be three free throws. Butler is also behind the three-point line at the time of the foul. Tatum. White will inbound. It's off to Smart for the seventh game. And didn't I say you have to. Oh, they're saying it on the floor. They're counting it. You have to protect the offensive rebound. Oh, he got rid of it. That's a Celtic win. And we're going to game seven. Celtics are going to win. There's a game seven back in Boston. Really on the floor is good basket to play Thunder. It's a drive by Martin. Horford was in the way. Shot clock at six. Twisting, turning, shooting. Jason Tatum switch on to Jimmy Butler. He's got to understand what's going on and go after Jason Tatum. Switch. Get it to the most consistent score in this series. Caleb Martin. We're with Tatum defending. Outside. Martin makes drives right at Tatum. Two to fire. Away and tap. Players need to make adjustments as much as coaches do. And Jimmy Butler did. Turnover. Butler at the other end. Defense to offense. Transition. Time out. Boston Celtics in the lead for Miami Grows. Only won three straight games to start this series. So it's a game seven. They stand eye to eye with history. And they did not blink. The Heat are going to the NBA Finals.