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Brousso and Rob Parker. Big game one tonight. I'm excited about these NBA finals. I think Denver is much better,

but I am excited nonetheless because the heat play with Major League heart and grit,

and I don't think you can ever just 100% count them out. So I'm hopeful that this will be a good competitive series.

But Rob, the Miami Heat are entering this series as the third biggest underdog in the last 20 years.

Third biggest underdog in the last 20 years. Third biggest underdog in the last 20 years.

And I will admit, Rob, they remind me of the 2007 Cavs.

When they had LeBron James and a bunch of solid hardworking players and they stunned the

Eastern Conference and you remember of course they shocked a very good Detroit Pistons team

which was always in either the conference finals or the finals those few years before that

won a championship they were bad boys the remix

and lebron james went crazy on them as a 22 year old and got cleveland to the finals and then

they were just overmatched and got swept by the spurs also rob you may remember this too

i was covering this team, not the beat writer,

but I was, you know, backing up doing sidebars and stuff when the Knicks in 1999,

with Jeff Van Gundy as the coach, the Trell Spreewell, Allen Houston, Marcus Camby,

officially Patrick Ewing, but he was injured, so he didn't play.

That team got to the finals.

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