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Heat cool Bulls, Spurs grab lead

Source: Agencies | May 12, 2013, Sunday | Print Edition

MIAMI'S LeBron James put in a powerful fourth-quarter performance to steer the Heat to a 104-94 win over the Bulls in Chicago on Friday and a 2-1 lead in their National Basketball Association Eastern Conference semifinal series.

James shook off a shove to the court that earned Nazr Mohammed an ejection - and brought accusations of play-acting from Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau - to score 12 points in the final quarter, finishing with 25 for the game.

Also on Friday, San Antonio's experienced stars shone to give the Spurs victory over the Golden State Warriors and a 2-1 lead in their West semifinal.

Miami's Chris Bosh had 20 points and 19 rebounds while Norris Cole matched his postseason career high with his second straight 18-point performance.

Chicago was annihilated in Game 2, suffering the heaviest playoff defeat in club history at 37 points, but fought hard against adversity on Friday.

The Bulls were still without the ailing Luol Deng and injured Kirk Hinrich (calf), not to mention Derrick Rose, and then had Mohammed ejected in the second quarter but were still within two points with four minutes left.

Still the Heat proved too good and ground out the victory. "You can't win a championship being pretty and shiny," Bosh said. "You're going to have to get dirty. You're going to have to play physical. You're going to have to dive on the floor. You're going to have to do things that are extremely tough."

Carlos Boozer led Chicago with 21 points. Robinson and Jimmy Butler each scored 17. Joakim Noah added 15 points and 11 rebounds.

In Oakland, California, Tony Parker scored 25 of his 32 points in the first half while Tim Duncan added 23 points and 10 rebounds as the Spurs beat Golden State 102-92 to take the series lead.

San Antonio outshot Golden State 50.6 to 39.3 percent and curbed streaky shooters Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson.

Thompson scored 17 points on 7-of-20 shooting, while Curry had 16 points on 5-of-17 from the floor.



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