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Dragic, Wade lead Heat past Raptors 103-91

Miami and Toronto will play a seventh and deciding game in the NBA Eastern Conference semi-final series.

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The Miami Heat's small team have overcome a size difference to beat the Toronto Raptors 103-91 to send their NBA Eastern Conference semifinal series into game 7.

Goran Dragic scored a postseason career-high 30 points and Dwyane Wade added 22 in the victory.

"Last year at this time we were all on vacation," Miami coach Erik Spoelstra said.

"So often in this business people tend to want to search for the easy route. There's usually not an easy way in a seven-game series, certainly not with a second and third seed going against each other. This is the path ... and now we've pushed it to a Game 7."

The winner of Sunday night's deciding game will head to Cleveland for Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals on Tuesday night.

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Kyle Lowry scored 36 points for Toronto, with DeMar DeRozan getting 23.

"We came here to try to win the game," Raptors coach Dwane Casey said.

"We didn't come here with a seven-game series in mind. It's been a great series, they're a championship-calibre team, well-coached team, but we came in here to try to win the game."

Wade sung the praises of teammate Dragic after the game.

"I knew (Dragic) was going to have an amazing performance tonight," Wade said. "You could tell he was on the brink of one."

Dragic scored 14 in the second quarter, helping Miami take a 53-44 lead at the half.

The lead got to 13 in the third, Dragic again coming up big with a three-point play.

And when Toronto got within six early in the fourth, Dragic and Wade scored the next six points to keep Miami in control.


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