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Pardon the interruption, but I'm Mike Wilbond. I'll assign it in Chicago.

Tony Cornheye's your assignments seem to sync up awfully well with your vacation homes, don't they?

Hello, I was born and raised here. There ain't no vacation home. This is all, huh?

Chicago Cut. Okay, you know,

Harold's on the south side. Huh? Your assignments seem to sync up very well with homes you own in various parts of America.

I'm just on the way to Miami. Just to stop over on the way to Miami for the NBA finals. That's it, Tony. Stop it.

I'm just standing at it and I assume Levitard will get you set up in a fabulous villa in Miami. Welcome to Pizza I, boys and girls.

In today's episode, Vegas takes game one of the Stanley Cup, Rose Zhang wins her pro debut and Aaron Judge makes a memorable catch.

But we begin today with Miami beating Denver in Denver last night when Jamal Murray missed a game time three in the final seconds.

That series is now tied one-one as the Koli Yokeaches 41 points were not enough and Miami won the fourth quarter 36-25.

Wilbond, you were there. What do you make of what Miami did and how they did it?

Tony, I know a lot will be made has been made and just to five years so of Miami shooting the three ball to the tune of 48%.

And that's a great number any night, but particularly in the NBA finals against the number one seed on the road at elevation.

That's a great number 48%. And when they shoot the three ball like that, they're going to be really tough to beat for anybody including Denver, who's a heavy favorite in the series, Tom, as you know.

But I thought what was as important if not more so was Miami's attitude.

Miami's, you know, just sort of the I wrote my eyes when I say culture, heat culture, but there is one.

And we talk about this Tony coming out of game one, I expected the 48 hours between the two games to be dominated by Miami talking to each other.

The heat players, coaches staff, everybody about force because Pat Riley always talked about playing with more force.

And that's what the heat did. They played with great force and intensity from the start of that game, even when they fell down by 15 at 11 point lead.

And they fell down by 15, but they hung in there. It's like a fighter getting hit in the chin and staying on their feet.

Maybe they had to take a standing eight count, but it was the fight in the Miami heat that I was most impressed with Tony.

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