The Miami Heat avoided being on the wrong side of history by closing out the Boston Celtics with a lopsided 103-84 victory in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals.

The Heat, who dropped three straight games coming into tonight, narrowly avoided becoming the first NBA team to ever blow a 3-0 series lead in the postseason.

Heat star Jimmy Butler put up a game-high 28 points while unheralded guard Caleb Martin poured in 26 points on 11-of-16 shooting.

Martin was an offensive revelation in the series averaging 19.2 points across the seven games.

As for the Celtics, they came out flat. They put up a putrid showing in the first quarter, scoring just 15 points on 26-percent shooting.

They started the game 0-for-10 from three-point range and never found their stroke, going 9-for-42 from beyond the arc.

Miami now faces off against Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets, a team that has not played since May 22 after throttling the Lakers in the Western Conference Finals.

The Heat are sizable underdogs in the series, but that has been the case this entire postseason. You’d be silly to count them out now.