Reaching Eastern Conference Finals Will Be Hollow Victory for Heat or Raptors

May 12th, 2016 by Zach Buckley Leave a reply »

The basketball gods have turned the Miami Heat-Toronto Raptors series into a war of attrition.

Spotty offensive production has made this battle anything but easy on the eyes, and the first five games have proved even more taxing on the actual participants.

With the series shifting back to South Beach for Friday's Game 6, each club is scrambling to replace injured starters and struggling to jump-start its sputtering offensive attack.

One of these teams will ostensibly emerge victorious eventually, but the real winner has already surfaced: the top-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers, who've been idle since securing their second consecutive playoff sweep on May 8.

The Cavs were longer ago crowned as the Eastern Conference champions.

Before Cleveland's 57-win season even started, 14 Bleacher Report experts predicted how this half of the bracket would play out, and 13 backed the Cavaliers. The lone dissenter, by the way, chose neither the Heat nor the Raptors but rather the Fred Hoiberg-led Chicago Bulls.

The Cavs' position atop the NBA's lesser half has only grown stronger over the past seven mo ...

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