Hey, Miami Heat fan: How do you feel about Joakim Noah, the Chicago Bulls center who just got ejected for arguing with a referee early in the fourth quarter of Game 2 on Wednesday night?

Neat. (Steve Mitchell-USA TODAY Sports/BDL Illustration)

Oh, OK, cool.

[Related: Filomena Tobias, fan who flipped off Joakim Noah, has crazy backstory]

Two nights after the Bulls bested the Heat in one of the most remarkable wins of the NBA season, Miami handed Chicago the worst loss in Bulls franchise history, a nasty, physical 37-point drubbing that featured nine technical fouls and ejections for Bulls reserve Taj Gibson and All-Star center Noah.

[Also: LeBron James, Heat frustrate Bulls in historic Game 2 blowout]

Check out video of the ejections, plus Noah's postgame reaction, after the jump.

Tony Parker can't believe how quickly Stephen Curry can get hot. (Getty Images)

After the San Antonio Spurs escaped with a thrilling, final-possession, double-overtime Game 1 win over the Golden State Warriors on Monday night, there's been one question on all of our minds: What the heck are the Spurs going to do differently to stop Stephen Curry, who went Human Torch for 44 points on 18 for 35 shooting against a very good Spurs defense that finished tied for third in the league in defensive efficiency this season.

"We've got to do a better job with him," Spurs legend Tim Duncan said, according to ESPN.com's J.A. Adande. (Thanks for the inside scoop, Tim.)

"We'd like to figure out how to hold Curry below 40," Popovich said, according to Adande. "We've got about 10 phone calls out to people asking for suggestions. He's unbelievable. Unbelievable."

And yet, the answer out of San Antonio's Wednesday shootaround didn't sound like a sweeping, revolutionary change.

There'll be some "new wrinkles," according to San Antonio Express-News beat stalwart Jeff McDonald, but for the most part, the second verse will be the same as the first, as Spurs guard Danny Green said:

“We’ve come up with more questions, a couple solutions,” Green said. “We won’t know if they work until tonight.”

Asked if he believed the impetus behind Curry’s big night was the guard simply hitting tough shots or the Spurs’ defensive breakdowns, Green answered, “A little bit of both.”

“Once a guy like that gets a rhythm, regardless of how tough the shot is, there’s a pretty good chance of it going in. We want to do a better job of keeping him out of rhythm.”

It'll be very interesting to see what the "wrinkles" that Gregg Popovich and his coaching staff have developed look like. In re-watching Game 1 possession by possession to take a closer look at how the Spurs defended Curry, it didn't seem like any one on-ball defender — primarily starting point guard Tony Parker, who's expected to get the call once again, but also backup Cory Joseph, shooting guard Green and small forward Kawhi Leonard — got particularly roasted. Instead, it looked more like A) the Golden State offense took advantage of various one-on-one mismatches away from Curry and B) Curry can be really, really, ridiculously, terrifyingly good.

The Grizzlies backcourt came up big. (Getty Images)

Heading into Tuesday's Game 2 against the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Memphis Grizzlies knew that despite letting a series-opening win slip through their fingers on Sunday, they still had an excellent chance of leaving Oklahoma with a split, if they could just tie up a couple of loose ends and get bounce-back games from the starting backcourt of Mike Conley (5 for 15 from the floor with only three assists in Game 1) and Tony Allen (three points on 1 for 5 shooting, no steals and some bad off-ball defense that helped Kevin Martin get loose).

The Grizzlies stuck to the script on Tuesday, playing what head coach Lionel Hollins called "kind of our game" — getting the foul line more often (32 attempts, up from 24 Sunday) and making freebies at a higher clip (71.9 percent, up from 58.3), forcing more turnovers (21, up from 10) and scoring off them (29 points, up from 14) — in a 99-93 win that evened their best-of-seven series at one game apiece heading back to the friendly confines of FedEx Forum for Saturday's Game 3.

In a series where the primary storylines have focused on the all-around brilliance of Kevin Durant (another monster game, with 36 points, 11 rebounds, nine assists, a ridiculous chasedown block and a withering crossover-and-flush through the Grizzlies defense) and the continued dominance of Memphis bruisers Marc Gasol and Zach Randolph (39 combined points on 25 shots, 13 rebounds, eight assists, three steals and two blocks), it was Conley who proved to be the real difference-maker down the stretch.

Tuesday night marked the 18th anniversary of one of the most remarkable individual feats in NBA playoff history — Reggie Miller scoring eight points in 8.9 seconds at Madison Square Garden on May 7, 1995, to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat and send his Indiana Pacers past the rival New York Knicks in the 1995 NBA playoffs. To a certain extent, it seemed tonally appropriate that the anniversary of the game-stealing stretch featured not only another Knicks-Pacers playoff tilt, but also Miller on the mic, providing color commentary for the TNT broadcast of Game 2 of the teams' Eastern Conference semifinals series.

Before the game, Miller took a gentle poke at Knicks fans still sore at all those stupid daggers all these years later:

Sooooooo looking forward to hearing the Garden's faithful crowd as Kevin Harlan, Rachel Nichols and myself come into the building... Smile..

— Reggie Miller (@ReggieMillerTNT) May 7, 2013

And in the closing seconds of the Knicks' series-evening 105-79 Game 2 win, the MSG faithful raised their voices to respond:

Carmelo Anthony fires over Paul George's late closeout in a Game 2 win. (Nathaniel S. Butler/NBA/Getty Images)

The New York Knicks did some good things through the first 32 1/2 minutes of Tuesday's Game 2 against the Indiana Pacers at Madison Square Garden, but despite forcing and capitalizing off Pacer turnovers, they couldn't seem to separate themselves from the Central Division champions, who just kept executing their surprisingly potent offense and making shots against the Knicks defense.

Then the end of the third quarter rolled around. Well, the 3:28 mark of the third quarter, to be more accurate.

That's when the Knicks began a mammoth run that saw them shoot 63.2 percent from the floor and hold Indiana without a field goal for 10 1/2 minutes. They outscored the Pacers 30-2 during that stretch, turning a nail-biter into a 105-79 blowout that evened the two teams' best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinals series at one game each with the series set to shift to Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indiana for Game 3 on Saturday night.

But before we look forward to the weekend, let's look back at that run, which began with just under 3 1/2 minutes remaining in the third.

George Karl in black and white. (Garrett W. Ellwood/NBA/Getty Images)

A look around the league and the Web that covers it. It's also important to note that the rotation order and starting nods aren't always listed in order of importance. That's for you, dear reader, to figure out.

C: Roundball Mining Company. After yet another first-round exit, Kalen Deremo tries to square the resume and reputation of Denver's bench boss with the repeated frustration of postseason failure: "All these years Nuggets fans have been in love with someone who does not exist. George Karl is not the knight in shining armor who has saved the Nuggets from the depths of franchise misery."

PF: SB Nation Longform. A good read (and a long one) from James Herbert on how Indiana Pacers wing Paul George went from a kid playing in jean shorts at a YMCA in Palmdale, Calif., to an NBA All-Star.

SF: Grantland, Eye on Basketball and Eight Points Nine Seconds. Zach Lowe, Zach Harper and Jared "Not Named Zach, Weirdly" Wade come in praise of Indiana Pacers center Roy Hibbert's paint-patrolling performance in Game 1 ...

SG: SB Nation, Posting and Toasting and The Point Forward. ... Mike Prada, Dylan Murphy and Rob Mahoney look at some adjustments the New York Knicks' offense can make to better attack Hibbert in Tuesday's Game 2.

Tony Allen and Mike Conley must bounce back. (Joe Murphy/NBA/Getty Images)

For most of the first 45 minutes of Sunday's Game 1, the Memphis Grizzlies controlled the pace, the style and the action of their Western Conference semifinals opening matchup with the top-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder. But in those final few minutes, it all went away, seemingly quicker than a Kevin Durant rise-and-fire that puts you behind and, eventually, away for good. It must feel like climbing a mountain and find yourself one last push from the summit, then losing your foothold and falling all the way down to the ground below.

"Every player on our team saw this win, and it didn't happen," Grizzlies reserve Quincy Pondexter, who missed a key late fourth-quarter free throw that could have enabled Memphis to tie the game in the closing seconds, told Jeff Latzke of The Associated Press after Game 1. "So, you've just got to move on and not make the same mistakes twice."

But what mistakes are those, specifically? How can Memphis find surer footing and finish the job in Tuesday's Game 2? Let's take a closer look at a few particular areas of interest:

Hey, remember when Houston Rockets center Omer Asik got called for what appeared to be a pretty dubious offensive foul during the second quarter of Game 5 against the Oklahoma City Thunder? Of course you do! (Remember how I tried to change the name "Thabo Sefolosha" to "Kevin Martin" in the post after being informed that I had 100 percent misidentified the second OKC flopper, only to find that the change didn't take in our publishing system, so it seems like it's going to stay wrong and haunt me forever? Of course you don't!)

In the event you've somehow forgotten the play since the Thunder dispatched the Rockets and moved on to a second-round matchup with the Memphis Grizzlies, refresh your memory:

Well, it seems the NBA didn't forget about it, announcing Monday evening that it has fined Thunder guard Derek Fisher $5,000 for violating the league's anti-flopping policy. I'm not entirely sure why it took that long for Stu Jackson and company to mete out their hot brand of discipline, but the delivery of justice, even when delayed, enhances and emboldens us all.