There\u2019s a lot on the line tonight when the Indiana Pacers and the Miami Heat meet in Game 7 of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals.<\/p>\n
The winner advances to the NBA Finals to meet the San Antonio Spurs. In Game 6 in Indianapolis on Saturday, the Pacers dominated the boards against the Heat. This time, LeBron James<\/strong> wasn\u2019t able to put the rest of the Heat on his back and carry them to victory. Will he be able to do that tonight? A win tonight would be huge for James<\/strong> and the Heat. Win, and they\u2019re the first South Florida team to play in three championships since the dynastic Dolphins did it in 1971, 1972 and 1973. Lose, and last season\u2019s title starts to look like an aberation rather than the payoff for landing the Big Three in Miami.<\/p>\n A win by the Pacers re-establishes them as an elite NBA team that was built from the ground-up \u2014 not by flashy free-agent signings. That could encourage other teams (i.e. Orlando Magic) to follow the same map.<\/p>\n So, who do you think \u2014 who will prevail tonight? The Heat or the Pacers? Sentinel Pick: Miami<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There\u2019s a lot on the line tonight when the Indiana Pacers and the Miami Heat meet in Game 7 of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals. The winner advances to the NBA Finals to meet the San Antonio Spurs. In Game 6 in Indianapolis on Saturday, the Pacers dominated the boards against the Heat. This time, […]<\/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-21681","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\/21681","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=21681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}