By Simon Evans MIAMI, May 25 (Reuters) - The Eastern Conference finals between the plucky Indiana Pacers and top-seeded Miami Heat is giving NBA fans a battle with all the hallmarks of a classic series, including a fierce duel between two red-hot players. Miami's LeBron James, the top player in the league today, was always going to be the key figure in the 2013 playoffs but Indiana's Paul George has emerged as the young pretender to his crown with the best-of-seven series tied at 1-1. ...
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MIAMI (AP) -- Chris Bosh stood up in a relatively quiet Miami Heat locker room and offered a concise, blunt and accurate assessment of where things stand so far in the Eastern Conference finals.
MIAMI (AP) -- David West was more than a little disappointed when the Indiana Pacers failed to make a defensive play at the end to win Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals.
Practice dummy for the NBA's elite no more, Paul George is growing into a star himself in the Eastern Conference finals.
Coming into this series, the Miami Heat gave the proper lip service to respecting the Indiana Pacers, but did they really respect them? The Heat had gone 45-3 since Feb. 3, you had to wonder if the Pacers really had their attention They do now. The question going into this series wasn?t if the Pacers?
