With a 109-93 win, the Miami Heat evened their championship series against the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday night.
, the game served as a dazzling display for Miami's Big Three:
"Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh and LeBron James combined to score 85 points on Thursday in the Heat's 109-93 victory against the Spurs at San Antonio's AT&T Center to tie the NBA Finals at 2-2. Game 5 is on Sunday before the series shifts back to Miami for the grand finale.
" 'It was a little bit of everything they provided for us,' Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said of Wade, Bosh and James. 'We needed every bit of it tonight.'
"Miami's Big 3 was averaging a combined 43 points in The Finals before Game 4's offensive explosion."
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"Like 'oh, that's why this team won the title last season.' Or 'oh, that's how they won 27 games in a row.' Most appropriately, though, it was 'oh, that's the Wade that's going into the Hall of Fame,' " ESPN reported.
Sunday's Game 5 is set for 8 p.m. ET. ABC-TV is the broadcaster.
In more serious news, about two dozen fans who were watching the game on TV at a waterfront grill in Miami Thursday night were injured when a patio deck gave way and spilled the fans into Biscayne Bay.
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"As many as two dozen people were injured. By 11:20 p.m., 15 people had been transported to various hospitals, two of them in serious condition, said Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Capt. Eugene Germain Jr. Another fire captain said one person might be missing and that a search was underway as rain fell."
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