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The Miami "Heat" are playing like some invincible machine right now. Everybody is temporarily healthy and they are expected to have Victor Oladipo at the end of February. They seem to be burning with a flame brutal to opponents. It's 82 games full 100 all Pat Riley.

Can that be done? That has always been the question with Riley's demands. Who was it who was "Mr. May" in baseball? A home run in May counts just as much as a home run in October towards the season's total but a home run in October counts more in determining that season as successful. The way Bam Adebayo and Jimmy Butler and Kyle Lowry and PJ Tucker are playing now, I am inclined to have that dread thing of the "Heat" fan, belief. I am inclined to believe that this fire will burn as hot in May and June as it is in February and that this team, leading the Eastern Conference now, reasonably can do it, that it would slay the "Bucks", blot the "Suns" and pacify the "Warriors". But, always a but, this isn't May or June, Brooklyn should be healthy and whole in May, is it more human and therefore more reasonable that this is Team February?