LeBron ‘King’ James and Dwayne Wade were both in action for Miami Heat against the Milwaukee Bucks in a hard- fought 98-86 win, to extend the first round tie wins to 2-0, in the playoff series.
The result means the NBA champions have assumed control of their Eastern Conference playoff series against the No. 8 seed Bucks.
The Heats have been sharing game points evenly in recent games and it was evident on Tuesday, Wade led the scoring with 21 points while James added 19, a modest return by his lofty standards.
Milwaukee did put up a fight at the American Airlines Arena after going down by a relatively wide margin (110-87) in the first game on Sunday.
But Miami were already leading 68-65 entering the fourth quarter, and then turned- up the heat by pulling away from their opponents with a 12-0 run in little over two minutes to stretch their lead to 80-65.
Chris Bosh, Shane Battier and Chris Andersen all scored 10 points for Miami and they resume their series on Thursday night with Game 3 in Wisconcin.
After the game, Wade was full of praise for their opponents who came out and put up a fight against the reigning NBA champions.
“In the playoffs you’ve got to find different ways to win. No matter what everybody says on the outside, (Milwaukee) is a good team. They played us very well.”
