Well, we got a series, folks.
As the famous Pat Riley adage reads: The playoff series doesn’t really start until the road team wins a game.
We’ve seen series where it goes seven with each team winning at home, and we’ve also seen series where the first road win doesn’t come until the final game of a series — similarly to Miami’s most recent one against the Philadelphia 76ers. But per the aforementioned phrase: The series is now officially on.
Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals between the Miami Heat and the Boston Celtics was truly a tale of two halves.