I hope they take Ja'Tavion Sanders. I'm surprised he's still available. A few players are still on the board that were projected in the second or early third. Hopefully they don't get cute with this.

For me it's a must-win because I'm thinking big picture. Look at Denver and some of the champions in recent years. They kept their foot on the gas pedal and just dominated, even on the road. If the C's are that team, they need to bounceback tonight and assert their dominance.

A loss tonight wouldn't doom them for this particular series because they could tie it 2-2 and still win in 6 or 7, but it'd be a bad look if they had to go 6+ with this Miami team in the first round, and I think it'd be a sign this team probably isn't even reaching the Finals.

Denver, Minnesota are probably on their ways to sweeps or easy 5-game wins. They are two of the Top-3 favorites to win it all including Boston, and also were in that "40/20 club" which includes OKC. OKC is up 2-0 in their series, they took care of business at home to begin the series.

You're just making the path much harder and risking injury by playing with your food and prolonging series. Do you think Minnesota and Denver went on the road up 2-0 and thought, "eh we can afford to drop this, no need to go all out"? Nah they had convincing Game 3 wins too.

Really needs to be a win. Another win gives Miami all the mojo and shows that game 2 was not just a one off.

Cannot go down 2-1 to this Heat team.

If Joe stays with the same 3 point defense then he should be fired. It is the only chance the Heat have to make this a game.

This year looks like changing of the look in NBA..Warriors didn’t make it & both Lakers & Suns gotta lose in first round plus not looking good for the Clippers who I thought win West..Father Time remains undefeated..but great to see Dallas, Minnesota & OKC start taking over the West along with Denver..plus next season Spurs & Houston will be a lot better

I think a Super Bowl on President's Day Weekend makes a ton of sense. The Monday after a SB should be a holiday or day off IMO lol, but having it on a random early Feb weekend is a bit odd.

I'm for the 18-game plan with one less preseason game. Lets be real, it's not like people treat those preseason games as importantly as before due to injury risk and such, and also with the increased emphasis on training camp and joint practices, I think organizations are using those more to evaluate players and do their drills/practice. I remember last preseason in two of the preseason games the Pats literally sat a bunch of guys including "bubble guys" because they apparently showed their stuff in the offseason workouts and joint practices and they felt good from just that. So all you basically had were guys who were gonna get cut anyways just to fill the space and gametime.