The best way to catch a good night’s sleep after watching a Miami Heat game apparently is turning it off after the third quarter.
Routinely, leads that had been in teens or 20s haven’t been much of a lead at all late in recent games.
Last Thursday, that meant Erik Spoelstra’s team finding itself in a four-point game late in New Orleans. Saturday, it meant what was a 21-point lead late in the third quarter against the visiting Brooklyn Nets was a two-point lead late in the fourth.