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At the second match point, following a 111-108 loss in Game 5, the Lakers only needed half the game to ‘decimate’ an unrecognizable Heat, when they reached the interval with a ‘huge’ 28 points max (64- 36).
With the second biggest break at halftime of a game in the history of the ‘finals’, the Lakers could no longer’ miss’ this opportunity and did not waste, equaling the Boston Celtics’ record in the year of their tragic death. eternal ‘Kobe Bryant.
The initial stage decided it all, in a mixture of merit for the Lakers, with Rajon Rondo (13 points) and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (15) in ‘big’, and demerit for the Heat, with a miserable 34 points, 34.3 % foul on field goals (13 of 38), incredible 41.7% on free throws (five of 12) and nine turnovers.
Then, with everything arranged, the second half was a mere formality, with LeBron James taking the opportunity to add a new ‘triple double’ (28 points, 14 rebounds and 10 assists) and Anthony Davis a ‘double double’ (19 points and 15 rebounds )).
James, 35, won the fifth title in 10 finals, while Davis, 27, picked up the first title in the first appearance.
In the Heat, Bam Adebayo added 25 points and 10 rebounds, but only appeared with the game decided, while Jimmy Butler was far from the two dream days he played in the final, staying for 12 points, eight assists and seven rebounds .
With Alex Caruso in the Lakers’ ‘five’, instead of Dwight Howard, the game started balanced, with several draws, but with the Californians closing the first period better, eight points to the maximum (28-20), despite Goran Dragic’s return to the Heat.
The Slovenian point guard, absent from the first match, returned, but could not counteract the trend that the match was beginning to win and translated, on the scoreboard, into a first lead of more than 10 points (35-23, with two minutes disputed in the second half). ).
With Rondo at ‘big’, the lead grew to 15 points (42-27), then Davis seemed to put it at 20 (54-34) and, at the end of the first half, with Kentavious Caldwell-Pope unstoppable, the difference ‘grew’ to the unthinkable 28 (64-36).
The second half, especially since the Heat came back in with the same lack of inspiration, had no history, with the game ‘crawling’, more than decided, until the end, with the advantage reaching the ‘scandalous’ 34 points (82 -48).
In the final moments, Erik Spoelstra’s team managed to reduce the handicap to 12 points, very ‘misleading’, such was the superiority of the Lakers. The game was long over.
Lakers equal Celtics record
With this victory, the Los Angeles Lakers won their 17th NBA champion title on Sunday, equaling the Boston Celtics record.
The Lakers had already won the title in 1948/49, 1949/50, 1951/52, 1952/53 and 1953/54, still based in Minneapolis and, based in Los Angeles, in 1971/72, 1979/80, 1981/82, 1984/85, 1986/87, 1987/88, 1999/00, 2000/01, 2001/02, 2008/09 and 2009/10.
