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Looking Ahead: Miami Heat at San Antonio Spurs

By Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times
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MIAMI AT SAN ANTONIO: Sunday, 4 p.m. PDT. TV: None.

Jerry West and Gail Goodrich may be resting easy, but LeBron James and Dwyane Wade certainly aren’t. Now that the Miami Heat can no longer threaten the 1971-72 Lakers’ NBA-record 33-game winning streak (at least until next season), it is left to terrify the rest of the league. San Antonio is among the few teams that can say “Boo!” back without eliciting laughter. The Spurs are on the verge of securing the top seeding in the Western Conference for a third consecutive season, making this a possible Finals preview.

—Ben Bolch

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Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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