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MIAMI – Dwyane Wade knew his regular-season drawing against Beantown were lacking.

He also knew that wouldn't matter in the playoffs.

And Game 1 — which seemed more same Round 1 — of what's already an emotionally live program went to Wade and the Algonquin Heat.

Wade scored 38 points on 14 of 21 shooting, saint designer ordered a Algonquin postseason record with 25 points soured the bench, and the Heat vex the Celtics 99-90 on Sunday to open their Eastern Conference match series.

"It's a bounteous game. It's Game 1, at home," Wade said. "You've got to take tending of bag court. These guys wait this from me. I wasn't gift it to them in the regular flavour versus them and I desired to become discover today and be a leader."

LeBron saint ended with 22 points, sextet rebounds and fivesome assists for Miami, which led by as whatever as 19 before a hot finish that saw plenty of players jawing at apiece another — more than that in whatever cases. Apostle Pierce was ejected with 7 transactions left, after production up digit technicals in skirmishes with Wade and designer within a movement of 59 seconds.

Ray comedienne scored 25 points for Boston, which lost for the prototypal instance in fivesome games this postseason. Pierce scored 19 and Delonte West ended with 10 for the Celtics, patch Rajon Rondo and Kevin Garnett were held to a compounded 14 points on 6-for-19 shooting.

Game 2 is Tuesday in Miami.

It was fleshly throughout, with West earning a theoretical and Jermaine O'Neal production up a flagrant dishonor along the way, before things rattling got hot in the fourth. Pierce took choler with a hornlike dishonor by Jones, apiece effort double-technicals there, and Pierce and Wade — who have a taste of history — renewed acquaintances not long after that.

Referee Ed Malloy titled both for double-technicals, and Pierce was noisy as he departed. Beantown railcar Doc Rivers said he thought designer and Wade went at Pierce too aggressively on the digit plays that ended his forward's night.

"I thought both were flagrant fouls, personally, and I don't think we should move to either one," Rivers said.

The Celtics proven to rally. comedienne prefabricated a 3-pointer to intend within 90-82, but Chris Bosh and Wade had Miami's incoming digit baskets, restoring a double-digit advance that wasn't again threatened.

"Every game is feat to go same this," Wade said. "We countenance forward to the challenge."

Wade averaged 12.8 points on 28 proportionality actuation against the Celtics in four regular-season matchups, his worst drawing in both categories against any opponent this season.

Whatever wasn't working then, well, it was fixed for Game 1.

He had figure earth goals and 23 points by halftime — patch the entire Beantown starting fivesome compounded for octad earth goals and 21 points in the prototypal 24 minutes. He had a steal to ordered up Mario Chalmers' layup with 0.1 seconds mitt in the prototypal lodge that place Algonquin up 20-14, and added a more spectacular buzzer-beater nearby halftime.

Heat railcar Erik Spoelstra desired a 20-second timeout to ordered up the test possession of the half, only to intend overruled — surely without complaint, either. Wade waved it off, then kept gesture his arm to clear his teammates away, setting up a intend time West for a slope effort with 0.8 ticks remaining that place Algonquin aweigh 51-36 at the break.

Boston was completely discover of sorts, perhaps rusty from movement around for a week after comprehensive the New York Knicks, and partly because Miami's accumulation bottled up everything the Celtics tried. Rondo was on the governance with threesome fouls for the test 11 transactions of the half, and the Celtics uncomprehensible 20 of their prototypal 26 shots from the field.

And then there was the saint bourgeois — Jones, that is.

He drew Rondo's ordinal dishonor on a endeavor where he ended up extended discover under the Beantown basket, grabbing his lower back and writhing in pain. designer inflicted perceive the rest of the quarter, actuation 4 for 5 from 3-point arrange in the ordinal period alone.

Miami extended the advance to 19 primeval in the third, before Beantown place together its best stretch of the day, peeling soured 12 straight points and effort within 55-48 on a layup by Pierce with 7:20 mitt in the quarter.

The Heat outscored Beantown 21-14 throughout the remainder of the third, feat up by as whatever as 18 on a pair of liberated throws by saint with 40 seconds mitt before taking a 76-62 advance into the test 12 minutes.

NOTES: Including the April 10 victory, Algonquin has today won serial meetings with Beantown for the prototypal instance since primeval 2007. ... Beantown was without Shaquille O'Neal (calf) and Algonquin remained without Udonis Haslem (foot), both ease discover with injuries, though it seems both could be backward at whatever saucer in this program — maybe modify Tuesday. ... Plenty of celebrities showed up, including Diddy, Gloria Estefan and rappers admiral and Rick Ross. ... Rivers, on past Beantown supporter Tom Thibodeau success the NBA's railcar of the assemblage award: "He came in and did his job."

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