Bulls shock Heat; Manu saves Spurs

MIAMI—The Chicago Bulls stunned the Miami Heat, 93-86, on Monday night to take Game 1 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series.

Trailing 86-83 with two minutes left, the Bulls scored the final 10 points of the game to beat the Heat once again.

At San Antonio, Manu Ginobili scored a three-pointer from the wing with 1.2 seconds left in double overtime to lift the Spurs to a thrilling 129-127 victory over the Golden State Warriors in the West.

Chicago’s Nate Robinson scored 27 points, and Jimmy Butler added 21 points and 14 rebounds while playing every second for the third straight game.

Joakim Noah added 13 points, Taj Gibson had 12 and Marco Belinelli added 10 for the Bulls, who snapped a 27-game Miami winning streak during the regular season, and handed the Heat their first loss in their last 13 games in this one.

LeBron James scored 24 points for Miami, which got 14 from Dwyane Wade. Game 2 is Wednesday night in Miami. The Bulls were without Derrick Rose, as they’ve been all season. Kirk Hinrich was out again with a calf injury. Luol Deng isn’t even expected to rejoin the team until Tuesday, after dealing with an illness apparently so severe that a spinal tap—and other tests since—were needed to rule out things like meningitis.

“I think when you’re facing adversity, you have to be mentally tough,” Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau said.

James was honored before the game, with a brief on-court ceremony to commemorate his fourth NBA MVP award.

The Spurs trailed by 16 points with 4 minutes left in regulation—thanks largely to Stephen Curry’s 44 points—before going on an 18-2 run to close the fourth quarter and force overtime.

They trailed 127-126 with 3.9 seconds left in the second overtime before Ginobili hit his trey off an inbounds pass from Kawhi Leonard.

“It’s only the second one I made all day,” Ginobili said. “Good timing though.”