Chicago Bulls vs Miami Heat
8:30 PM ET, May 24, 2011
AmericanAirlines Arena, Miami, FL
Watch chicago bulls vs miami heat live stream free, this rivalry began once the Miami Heat, having played in the league only since 1988, became a playoff contender. Unfortunately, this occurred during the time Michael Jordan was leading the Chicago Bulls to championship three-peats.
The first playoff meeting between the teams occurred in the first round of the 1992 NBA Playoffs. The Bulls, led by Jordan, Scottie Pippen, and Horace Grant and coached by Phil Jackson, were the defending champions and had accumulated a 67-15 record, the Central Division title, and the top seed in the Eastern Conference. The Heat, with Glen Rice, Steve Smith, and Rony Seikaly, had just reached the NBA Playoffs for the first time in its young franchise history with the 8th seed. The Bulls would sweep the Heat in three straight games en route to their second consecutive NBA Championship.
The second time the two teams met, in the 1996 NBA Playoffs, the Bulls, now with Jordan, Pippen, Dennis Rodman, Toni Kukoč, and Steve Kerr, had just compiled the best NBA regular season record of 72-10 and were hungry to regain the NBA title after a two-year drought. The Miami Heat, now coached by Pat Riley with Alonzo Mourning, Tim Hardaway, Chris Gatling, and Walt Williams, managed to clinch the final Eastern Conference playoff spot with a 42-40 record. Once again, however, the Bulls proved to be too much for the Heat (or for anybody else that season, for that matter) and would eventually cap a historic season with their fourth NBA championship.
Preview
All the Chicago Bulls say they need to do now is something they've already managed 71 times this season, more than any other team in the league.
Win a game.
It's that simple. No need for cluttered thinking now. Even after everything that has gone wrong in the last two games of the Eastern Conference finals against the Miami Heat -- who have handed the Bulls their first two-game losing streak since February -- Chicago knows it can reclaim the upper hand in the series by winning Game 4 in Miami on Tuesday night.
The first playoff meeting between the teams occurred in the first round of the 1992 NBA Playoffs. The Bulls, led by Jordan, Scottie Pippen, and Horace Grant and coached by Phil Jackson, were the defending champions and had accumulated a 67-15 record, the Central Division title, and the top seed in the Eastern Conference. The Heat, with Glen Rice, Steve Smith, and Rony Seikaly, had just reached the NBA Playoffs for the first time in its young franchise history with the 8th seed. The Bulls would sweep the Heat in three straight games en route to their second consecutive NBA Championship.
The second time the two teams met, in the 1996 NBA Playoffs, the Bulls, now with Jordan, Pippen, Dennis Rodman, Toni Kukoč, and Steve Kerr, had just compiled the best NBA regular season record of 72-10 and were hungry to regain the NBA title after a two-year drought. The Miami Heat, now coached by Pat Riley with Alonzo Mourning, Tim Hardaway, Chris Gatling, and Walt Williams, managed to clinch the final Eastern Conference playoff spot with a 42-40 record. Once again, however, the Bulls proved to be too much for the Heat (or for anybody else that season, for that matter) and would eventually cap a historic season with their fourth NBA championship.
Preview
All the Chicago Bulls say they need to do now is something they've already managed 71 times this season, more than any other team in the league.
Win a game.
It's that simple. No need for cluttered thinking now. Even after everything that has gone wrong in the last two games of the Eastern Conference finals against the Miami Heat -- who have handed the Bulls their first two-game losing streak since February -- Chicago knows it can reclaim the upper hand in the series by winning Game 4 in Miami on Tuesday night.
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