Miami Heat Advance to NBA Finals After Defeating Boston Celtics

Miami Heat will play Los Angeles Lakers in NBA Finals

Shandel Richardson | Sep 27, 2020

The Miami Heat are once again back in the NBA Finals.

After losing Game 5, the Heat closed out the series against the Boston Celtics in Game 6 in the Eastern Conference finals. They defeated the Celtics 125-113 Sunday in Orlando.

The Heat are now in the sixth NBA Finals in the franchise history. They will play the Los Angeles Lakers in the next round. The Lakers are led by LeBron James, who played for the Heat from 2010-14 and led the Heat to two titles in 2012 and 2013.

Published Sep 27, 2020

SHANDEL RICHARDSON

Shandel has covered the NBA since 2010, with previous stops at The Athletic and South Florida Sun-Sentinel. He has covered six NBA Finals, one Super Bowl, the NCAA basketball tournament. He has also been a beat writer for the Miami Hurricanes and contributed on every major beat in South Florida since 2003, including the Miami Dolphins and Miami Marlins. He can also be read in the Sportsbook Review for gambling coverage from around the NBA. A native of Bloomington, Illinois, Shandel attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He's also worked for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Kansas City Star. TWITTER: @ShandelRich EMAIL: shandelrich@gmail.com You can subscribe to our YouTube channel here Follow all of our Miami Heat coverage on Facebook here