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The NBA Finals are set: we finally know that the Denver Nuggets will face off against the Miami Heat starting on Thursday night.
Most betting markets have the Nuggets as the favorites to win the championship.
But Skip Bayless isn’t giving up on the underdogs.
“I’m going Heat in 6 over the Nuggets. Why? Because the Heat will prove to be mentally and physically tougher than the Nuggets,” Bayless said on Tuesday morning’s Undisputed.
.@RealSkipBayless is continuing to ride the Heat train in the NBA Finals:
“I’m going Heat in 6 because they will prove to be mentally and physically tougher than the Nuggets.” pic.twitter.com/WmaiO62sVG
— UNDISPUTED (@undisputed) May 30, 2023
There is no doubt that the Heat have a chance at winning the Finals but the conventional wisdom says they are not the favorites.
Of course, conventional wisdom also said they’d never get this far either.
The Heat have surprised and over-performed again and again throughout these playoffs.
They are only the second eighth seed to reach the Finals, after the New York Knicks in 1999.
Miami suffered through a regular season that was filled with a lot of great disappointment only to come back to life in the playoffs.
This has given them a lot of mental toughness, according to Bayless.
They also have more experience in the postseason and in the Finals.
Head coach Erik Spoelstra has done this many times before and is easily one of the best championship coaches in the NBA right now.
Perhaps that will be enough to overcome Mike Malone and his team consisting of Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray, and others.
The betting market might have one opinion and NBA fans might have their own too but the Nuggets should be ready to play hard.
They don’t want to be the latest team surprised by just how powerful the Heat can be.
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