LeBron, Heat finish off broken Knicks

LeBron James has never lost in the first round of the playoffs(7-0)

Four of the first five picks of the 2003 draft were center stage for the Heat-Knicks first round match-up this year. The problem for the Knicks was they had one to the Heat's three. LeBron James had 29 points, 8 boards and 7 helpers to lead the Heat to a 106-94, series closing win over Carmelo Anthony and the New York Knicks.

Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade both had 19 points in the clincher.

The Knicks were suppose to give the Heat a serious challenge in this series, but that wasn't to be. Injuries to both Iman Shumpert and Baron Davis during the first four games, not to mention losing Jeremy Lin at the beginning of April, left the Knicks undermanned against a Heat team focused on getting back to the NBA finals.

Let's not also forget Amare Stoudemire's bone head decision to take out his frustrations on a fire extinguisher after game 2.

LeBron got the best of Melo in their first ever playoff meeting

I would like to write some more things about this game and or this series, but to be completely honest, this match up was a joke. The Heat outscored the Knicks by 18 points in their 4 wins and lost by only 2 on the road in game 4.

The only reason the series got as much pub as it did was because of the cities involved. This was nowhere close to the battles these two teams had in the late nineties, with all four previous meetings going the distance.

So I'll leave you with some fun facts about the departing New York Knicks.

-In 29 playoff games against the Miami Heat, they have yet to score a 100 points in a game.

-It's been 4,373 days(12 years) since the Knicks won a playoff series(2000 East semifinals against the Heat)

-Before they won their first game in 11 years last Sunday, breaking an NBA record 13 straight games lost in the playoffs, the Brooklyn Nets(former New Jersey) had won 43 playoff games in that span.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat%E2%80%93Knicks_rivalry