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NBA Finals: How to stream Miami Heat vs Los Angeles Lakers Game 1

By Duncan Smith

MIAMI, FLORIDA - DECEMBER 13: LeBron James #23 of the Los Angeles Lakers drives to the basket against Derrick Jones Jr. #5 of the Miami Heat during the second half at American Airlines Arena on December 13, 2019 in Miami, Florida. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images)
MIAMI, FLORIDA - DECEMBER 13: LeBron James #23 of the Los Angeles Lakers drives to the basket against Derrick Jones Jr. #5 of the Miami Heat during the second half at American Airlines Arena on December 13, 2019 in Miami, Florida. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images) /
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The Los Angeles Lakers and the Miami Heat will do battle in the NBA Finals in Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex. Here’s how to watch.

Almost one calendar year after the 2019-20 NBA season began, the NBA Finals are about to begin between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Miami Heat. It’s been a long, grinding, tumultuous season with the deaths of Kobe Bryant and former commissioner David Stern, and an all-time footnote in the form of a four-and-a-half month hiatus brought about by the coronavirus pandemic.

The NBA had to get creative to even consider resuming its season, and it did indeed think outside the box in order to do so. As we know now, the league created a bubble environment in Walt Disney World’s Wide World of Sports, and thanks to vigorous testing and quarantining had a perfect record with no positive tests on campus.

The league pulled off something that seemed impossible back in the middle of March when they suspended the season, and along the way provided some incredible basketball. The Phoenix Suns were the seeding game champions with a perfect 8-0 record but were eliminated from playoff contention in the final game of the round.

Performances by Jamal Murray and Donovan Mitchell in a seven-game first-round battle between the Denver Nuggets and the Utah Jazz were nothing short of spectacular, and the Miami Heat’s stifling zone defense clamped down on the Milwaukee Bucks and the Boston Celtics en route to the Finals, while Anthony Davis had a fantastic scoring run for the Lakers.

Not to be left unmentioned, LeBron James had a vintage Game 5 against the Denver Nuggets to clinch things, reminding us that there’s still nobody like LeBron when he has a team on the ropes in the NBA playoffs.

The Los Angeles Lakers and the Miami Heat are not the matchup we expected when the season began, or even when the seeding games or the playoffs began. The Lakers were never worse than the second-most likely team from the Western Conference to get here, but the Heat astonished everybody to get to the Finals.

Now that we’re here, you don’t want to miss a minute of the action.

How to stream NBA Finals Game 1: Miami Heat vs Los Angeles Lakers

Game 1 of the NBA Finals will be played Wednesday night and is scheduled to tip off at 9 PM ET, 6 PM PT. The game will be broadcasted live on ABC and fans can stream the game on Fubo.tv.

In addition, FanSided will be hosting an alternative commentary stream on the network’s YouTube channel. Just start the game on your TV and use FanSided’s stream, hosted by Mark Carman, for an enhanced second-screen experience. Mark will have guests on throughout the game for analysis and discussion, and viewers are more than welcome to interact with the hosts through YouTube’s chat feature.

There’s never been an NBA Finals like this one, so don’t miss out on the action between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Miami Heat.

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