NEW YORK — After a training staffer laid a blue towel on the floor before his locker, Gabe Vincent plopped his back onto the cushioning and stretched his sneakers onto his seat, where he had just been resting. Miami's starting point guard closed his eyes and draped a black T-shirt over his face, meditating, shut off from the world, even with his head positioned mere inches from the entryway to the Heat's pregame dressing area inside Madison Square Garden.
Miami Heat guard Gabe Vincent, left, drives against New York Knicks guard RJ Barrett during the first half of Game 1 in the NBA basketball Eastern Conference semifinals playoff series, Sunday, April 30, 2023, in New York. NEW YORK — After a training staffer laid a blue towel on the floor before his locker, Gabe Vincent plopped his back onto the cushioning and stretched his sneakers onto his seat, where he had just been resting.
“Even though he’s a young player in the league, we view him like a veteran player,” Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra said of the 26-year-old guard. Miami is right back where they were against those Bucks, stealing Game 1 on the road. One Heat staffer told Yahoo Sports in the pregame the team just needed to take one of these two opening matchups in Manhattan. Perhaps Miami can get greedy and swipe a second on Tuesday night before this series shifts to South Beach.
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