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The Miami Heat have their backs against the wall heading into Game 6 of the NBA Finals, and San Antonio Spurs guard Danny Green is a big reason for that. With six three-pointers in a Game 5 win on Sunday, Green set an NBA record with 25 three-pointers made in a playoff series. According to Chris Bosh, he will not be padding that achievement tonight.

Though Green is easily the NBA Finals MVP through five Games, Bosh insisted on Tuesday that Game 6 will be a different story.

Asked Chris Bosh how Danny Green has consistently found the open spots in Miami's D. Answer: "he won't be open tonight."

— David Aldridge (@daldridgetnt) June 18, 2013

The Spurs have shot 44.2 percent from three-point range during the Finals, which is mostly due to Green shooting 65.8 percent. However, he has not been the only problem for Miami. The Heat have struggled to guard the perimeter and the Spurs have taken a 3-2 lead by playing inside-out basketball on offense.

Does Chris Bosh’s confidence mean he intends to switch out on Green quicker and not give him any open looks? That will be an incredibly difficult task for the big man, but he obviously feels that the Heat have made enough adjustments since Game 5 to lock Green down. Playing at home could help Miami, though they will be without a few very important fans thanks to Gregg Popovich.

H/T Eye on Basketball

The Miami Heat won Game 4 of the NBA Finals on Thursday 109-93 to even their series with the San Antonio Spurs at two, so he can laugh about it now, but Chris Bosh had a rough couple of minutes there in the second quarter.

First Bosh was caught flopping as he was fighting Tim Duncan for position in the lower block. Just as Gary Neal was driving the lane, Bosh went flying as he pretended like he was savagely pushed by Duncan. Replays showed it was mostly an act. It paid off at the time; Duncan was called for a moving screen, giving the ball to the Heat, but Bosh will likely be hit with a fine from the league.

Then there was Bosh getting Duncan on a pump fake and driving to the basket for a monster dunk right before halftime. The only problem is Bosh went soaring a split-second too late, and the buzzer went off right before he threw down the jam.

You can see that video below:

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Paul George continues to make a name for himself during the playoffs. The Indiana Pacers forward threw down a sick dunk on Miami Heat forward Chris Bosh during the second quarter of Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals on Saturday in Indiana. Every bit as great as the dunk was TNT’s Marv Albert’s call, where he said George was “in the face of Bosh, serving up a facial!”

Bosh shouldn’t feel too badly about being on the wrong end of a dunk from George; it also happened to his teammate Chris Birdman Andersen last week. He also reacted well to it by getting an inbounds pass in quickly, resulting in a LeBron James 3-pointer while George was busy celebrating.

The video below shows the dunk with two replay angles:

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Chris Bosh chewed out teammate Mario Chalmers late in the third quarter of Game 3 between the Miami Heat and Chicago Bulls, much to Joakim Noah’s delight.

The discord between Bosh and Chalmers seemed to begin after Chalmers turned over the ball on offense. Chalmers was trying to drive the lane and then looked to pass when he encountered multiple defenders. He turned it over on an errant pass in Bosh’s direction.

On the next possession, Jimmy Butler backed down Chalmers and dished to Taj Gibson for a layup and foul. Before Gibson went to the line, Bosh lit into Chalmers. Noah came over after a few seconds and gave a bunch of claps, clearly pleased that the Heat teammates were bickering.

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Video via @BlazersEdge

Chris Bosh had to deal with some very unfortunate circumstances when he returned home from his 29th birthday party early Thursday morning, which has led to the greatness of the actual party being swept under the rug. Bosh’s good mood probably disappeared when he got to his house and realized more than $340,000 worth of his stuff had been stolen, but the party itself sounds like it was a blast.

According to Joe Goodman of the Miami Herald, Bosh’s birthday bash was Moroccan-themed and included a camel named Henri. The theme helps explain the photo of Bosh’s cake that Goodman shared with us, which features a figurine of himself riding a chocolate elephant.

Insiders from the party also said that there were fire-eaters and belly dancers in addition to the camel, which they said peed an extraordinary amount. Last week for his actual birthday, Bosh was entertained by a mariachi band. The cake from this week wasn’t quite as extravagant as some of the LeBron James birthday cakes we have seen in the past, but I don’t know how you can get anymore crazy than a Moroccan theme and a live camel. Oh, that’s right — Dwyane Wade had a $230,000 car airlifted into a hotel pool area for his birthday. Nevermind.

H/T Twitter/Brian Windhorst

Chris Bosh celebrated his 29th birthday on Wednesday night and the festivities turned out to be more costly than he anticipated. According to NBC 6 in South Florida, Bosh and his wife returned to their home early Thursday morning and discovered that they had been the victims of a burglary.

Police said the Boshs came home to a closet that had been ransacked and roughly $340,000 in possessions were missing. Watches, rings and other jewelry were reportedly among the stolen items. Fortunately, Bosh’s 2012 Miami Heat NBA championship ring was left untouched.

Two housekeepers who were home with Bosh’s children on Wednesday night are being interviewed. Police are also checking to see if any contractors had been working at the house recently.

“We are leaning on the side of this being an inside job,” Miami Beach Police spokesman Bobby Hernandez said.

Unlike the NFL player who recently had $500,000 worth of jewelry stolen from his hotel room, Bosh’s possessions were taken from his own home. While no one ever wants to lose over $300,000 worth of stuff, I’m sure Bosh is relieved that his family is safe and he still has his championship ring. As this former Boston Red Sox pitcher or this former Tampa Bay Rays pitcher could tell you, losing a priceless piece of hardware like that is not fun.

Photo credit: Steve Mitchell-US PRESSWIRE

Had a Mariachi Band for my Birthdaysay.ly/VLV5r5e

— Chris Bosh (@chrisbosh) March 24, 2013

Chris Bosh turned 29 on Sunday, and it seems like he threw himself quite the fiesta to celebrate the occasion.

The Miami Heat forward appeared to celebrate his big day on Saturday when the team had a day off instead of Sunday since they have a game. He tweeted that great photo you see above, saying that he hired a mariachi band to play at his birthday.

There are so many awesome aspects of the photo.

- You have Bosh standing squarely in the middle, about two feet taller than anybody else, with nobody coming higher than his chest.

- He’s rocking a sweet sombrero (though we prefer him in a cowboy hat).

- He’s giving his classic photobomb look in the picture.

We’re guessing his party wasn’t quite as awesome as Dwyane Wade’s 30th birthday bash, but with a mariachi band, it had to have been fun.

And since Bosh was giving a photobombing face in his own birthday party picture, we figured we’d share some of his great photobombing moments below:

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