But the Heat won enough during the streak to move two games ahead of the Spurs for the best record in the league and home-court advantage throughout the NBA Finals, and they've said all along another title is what they're really after.

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Indiana believed this was the only way it could get back into the best-of-seven series after giving home-court advantage back to Miami two nights earlier.

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