{"id":20171,"date":"2013-03-21T13:46:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T17:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20171"},"modified":"2013-03-21T13:46:26","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T17:46:26","slug":"lebron-james-posts-triple-double-as-heat-rally-up-streak-to-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20171","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James Posts Triple-Double As Heat Rally, Up Streak To 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND &#8212; Miami&#8217;s winning streak was in danger of disappearing &#8212; in Cleveland, of all places. But <strong>LeBron James<\/strong> wouldn&#8217;t give up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That guy right there doesn&#8217;t want to lose in this building,&#8221; teammate<strong> Dwyane Wade<\/strong> said, nodding toward <strong>James<\/strong>, who left many angry Cavaliers fans behind when he bolted for Miami as a free agent three years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>James<\/strong> scored 25 points as the Heat overcame a 27-point deficit in the third quarter and won their 24th straight game, 98-95 over the short-handed Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday night to extend the second-longest winning streak in NBA history. The Heat are within nine games of matching the record of 33 consecutive wins held by the 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers. Once believed to be untouchable, the mark is now within reach.<\/p>\n<p><strong>James<\/strong> and his teammates have insisted the record isn&#8217;t one of their goals, and for more than 30 minutes the defending champions seemed disinterested and on the verge of losing for the first time since Feb. 1. Miami trailed 67-40 with 7:44 left in the third quarter. But behind the irrepressible<strong> James<\/strong>, who added 12 rebounds and 10 assists in 42 minutes, the Heat inched closer to history and matched the NBA&#8217;s biggest comeback this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND &#8212; Miami&#8217;s winning streak was in danger of disappearing &#8212; in Cleveland, of all places. But LeBron James wouldn&#8217;t give up. &#8220;That guy right there doesn&#8217;t want to lose in this building,&#8221; teammate Dwyane Wade said, nodding toward James, who left many angry Cavaliers fans behind when he bolted for Miami as a free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}