Miami Heat: 10 best moments of Chris Bosh’s Heat career
By Frank Urbina
9. Three straight late three-pointers against Charlotte
Fast forward three years to 2014. Things in Miami were a bit different. The Heat were back-to-back champs, having exorcised their demons from their 2011 defeat.
It was a sleepy, Sunday matinee outing against the Charlotte Hornets — one in which the team from South Beach clearly lacked motivation. Due to their sloppy, bored play, the Heat found themselves down by five with fewer than three minutes remaining in the contest.
Who was it that took it upon themselves to wake everyone out of their foggy haze? That would be Bosh, of course.
He scored 13 straight points, including nailing a three-pointer on three consecutive possessions.
Miami would go on to beat Charlotte by a point. But without their star power forward, who finished the game with 22 points on 8-for-13 shooting and nine rebounds, they wouldn’t have.
The win didn’t change much, though. The Heat continued to sleep-walk through the regular season (losing three of their next five contests) and all the way through the playoffs, until a Finals defeat at the hands of the San Antonio Spurs. That entire 2014 campaign was, for the most part, one I’d rather forget.
Likewise, in the grand scheme of things, this performance was merely a blip in Bosh’s amazing career. Nonetheless, it was a pretty fun one.