Miami -- Dirk Nowitzki(notes) spent timeouts draped in towels to fight off a 101-plus-degree fever. Sometimes, he needed help to stand up from the bench. He wheezed through dead balls. He went weak with errant shots on the most open of looks.
Nowitzki was dog sick on a Tuesday night he and the Dallas Mavericks could ill-afford it. Eventually Miami was up nine in the fourth quarter of the fourth game, en route to a controlling victory, en route to "The Decision" morphing into the start of "The Dynasty."
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