This year's playoffs saw a number of surprises in the first round, none bigger than theHeat - who emerged from the NBA's play-in tournament- knocking off the top-seeded Milwaukee Bucks, who led the NBA with 58 wins in the regular season.
The Denver Nuggets completed a sweep of the Los Angeles Lakersand will have home-court advantage against the Heat. 8 seed in NBA history to appear in the Finals. The eighth-seeded Heat are just the second No. The Miami Heat closed out a nail-biting Eastern Conference finals series against the Boston Celtics with a Game 7 win on Monday night and will face the Denver Nuggets in the championship (Game 1, 8:30 p.m.
