Cinderella team Miami Heat are dismantling the competition

For those of you that don't closely follow the NBA tournament you need to know one very important fact about the Miami Heat's involvement in the tournament: They barely made the tournament at all. They had to play in a side tournament in order to even qualify, then did poorly in even that. They lost one of the two games in the play-in tournament and this resulted in them getting terrible position in the brackets. It was all but assumed that they would be going home very early.

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You can see there that they actually lost their first "play-in" game and were all but set to get packing to head back to Florida for the off-season when the won their second and then went on to face the heavily favored Milwaukee Bucks. Despite winning several games in a row, the Heat were ALWAYS the underdogs on the betting lines in every single game.

Afterwards, perhaps on a high of rejuvenated vigor, they went on to dismantle the New York Knicks, who once again, were favorites to win in nearly every one of the games.

Still considered underdogs, they are right now facing the Celtics, who many thought would win the East and perhaps even the entire tournament. Things are not going that way right now as the Miami side currently has a 3-0 lead on Boston and has kind of embarrassed the Celtics in every one of the games they have played thus far. At one point in game-1, the Miami Heat were ahead of the Celtics by 33 points and both teams were so convinced that there was no chance that the Celtics could pull this one back that both benches were playing a full squad of players that very rarely see game-time. The Celtics had conceded before the game was even over and just accepted their fate.

Miami is playing so much better than the Celtics that they have taken to taunting on the floor and this has gotten them in trouble with technical fouls a couple of times.

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It just seems as though nobody has Miami's number which is really strange considering that during the regular season they appeared to be a very average team that was going to get wiped if they even made it to the brackets of the playoff, which they almost didn't.

In game 3 of the Celtics and Heat showdown, despite being 2 games up, the Celtics were STILL favored on the money line and then got blown out in the first half by nearly 20 points. It didn't get better for the Celtics from that point forward and the game ended 128-102.

The Celtics have a very tough game going into tonight playing Miami in Miami. I wonder if the bookies will look at this situation seriously and actually favor the Heat in tonight's game. I don't know! It could actually make Miami play harder believing that the statistics are not in their favor.

For me, It would be truly majestic to see them sweep the Celtics and make it to the finals when they were nearly not included in the tournament at all. I don't have any sort of special love for the Heat, but I do enjoy an underdog story and the critics and bookies have considered them far underdogs right from the start. I'd love to see them prove the naysayers wrong.

As I write this, we are just a few minutes away from the Denver Nuggets potentially eliminating the Lakers from the Final. Personally, I would prefer to see a Denver / Miami final than have the Lakers there at all.