What if Heat Culture is just rippin' an ungodly amount of threes?

Miami did it. The hardest working, best conditioned, most professional, unselfish, toughest, meanest, nastiest team in the NBA beat Boston in Boston.

Good morning. Let’s basketball.

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A Man Singing by Candlelight; Adam de Coster; 1625-35

The Heat and Celtics have meet 22 times in the playoffs during the Jimmy Butler era (since 2019-2020, which coincides with the post-Kyrie Irving era of the C’s). Miami is 12-10 against Boston in the playoffs in that span, and the Heat have won two of the three completed series.

According to Stathead, in the Heat’s 12 playoff wins over the Celtics in the past five years, Miami has shot 170/404 (42%) from deep. By comparison, in those five regular seasons against all opponents, the Heat shot just under 37% from deep. In the 10 playoff losses to Boston since 2019-20, Miami shot 99/347 (29%) from deep.

Forget about Boston’s own offensive performance — and its susceptibility to and reliance on three-point variability — for a second. This is just an incredible split, even in a statistic where wild splits are possible. And it’s over 22 games, not a single series or a single stretch.

Look at it this way.