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MIAMI - Suddenly, the road back to the Eastern Conference finals no longer looks daunting for Miami. Not after the Heat left the Pacers beat up and banged up. LeBron James scored 30 points, Dwyane Wade added 28, and the Heat moved a win away from the NBAs final four with a 115-83 victory over the hurting Pacers on Tuesday night, a game where three flagrant fouls added more chapters to an already-physical series and Indiana watched starting forwards Danny Granger and David West leave with injuries. "This is our challenge right now, to leave it behind us," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "A lot of good things tonight, but we have to focus on the next one." That would be Game 6 in Indiana on Thursday night. The Heat lead the best-of-seven East semifinals 3-2. James added 10 rebounds and eight assists. Shane Battier scored 13 points, Mario Chalmers had eight points and 11 rebounds, and Udonis Haslem finished with 10 points for Miami, which never trailed, held a 22-2 edge in fast-break points and shot a franchise playoff-record 61 per cent -- best of any team in the playoffs this season. Paul George scored 11 points for Indiana, with Granger and West adding 10 points apiece. Granger left with a sprained left ankle in the third quarter and departed the arena in a walking boot, while West departed with what the Pacers called a left knee sprain at the end of that period -- something that West thought was born of a cheap shot. Replays showed Shane Battier boxed out West on the play where he fell backward, but it did not appear any Heat player hit West below the waist. It was an 11-point game when Granger departed early in the third quarter, and the Heat outscored the Pacers by 21 the rest of the way. "We learned early in this series, you dont get two wins for a blowout," Pacers coach Frank Vogel said. A series marked by ugly moments had perhaps its worst with 19.4 seconds remaining when Miami reserve centre Dexter Pittman went across the lane to send a forearm into the chin area of Indianas Lance Stephenson -- who was caught on camera making a choke sign toward James during the Pacers Game 3 win, drawing the ire of the Miami locker room. Pittman was caught on camera winking after the foul. "I dont know if that was retaliation. ... Im sure the NBA will and do what they have to do," Granger said, adding that Stephenson was getting X-rays for a possible collarbone problem. Physicians were examining Stephenson after the game. Miami, which had gotten into quick deficits in each of the first four games, was the team that started hot in Game 5, running out to a 19-8 lead on the strength of three 3-pointers from Battier -- who had been 2 for 19 from the field in the first four games of the series. Battier left his mark in many ways, even stopping a 3-on-1 Indiana break to set up a score by Wade at the other end. But much like the Heat did in Game 4 when Indiana threatened to turn things into an early runaway, the Pacers settled down in a hurry. The Pacers made Wade see blood early on, a couple of early flagrant fouls reminding everyone that these teams dont seem to like each other much. Tyler Hansbrough struck first, hitting Wade on a play where the 2006 NBA finals MVP wound up with a cut over his right eye, similar to what Haslem received at Indiana in Game 4. So Haslem retaliated against Hansbrough not long afterward, earning a flagrant-1 foul that left the Pacers saying it should merit a flagrant-2 and automatic ejection. "Referees call," Vogel said. Said Haslem: "Ive seen worse in this league in nine years. Nobody wants to give an inch and everybodys going hard." Even after facing the big deficit, Indiana even had two shots to tie or take the lead late in the first half, the second of those a 3-point try from Granger with 3:03 remaining. It didnt go down. He did. Granger landed on James foot after the shot, spraining his left ankle and leaving the game. The Heat outscored Indiana 8-2 the rest of the half, with James -- who had been guarded by Granger for much of the series -- scoring seven of them. He opened the burst with a 3-pointer, stole the ball from West and dunked for a seven-point lead with 26 seconds left, then capped the half by coming up with a defensive rebound, passing to Wade, getting the ball back just before the halftime horn sounded and laying it in to send Miami into the break with a 49-40 edge. "They played at their tempo," West said. "We werent able to get enough stops. You cant allow a team to shoot 60, 60-plus, whatever from the field." Granger tried to play in the second half, lasting about 3 minutes before realizing his ankle wasnt going to let him continue. X-rays were negative, which was about the only piece of good news for Indiana. By then, Indiana was ailing, and Miami was rolling. James leaned back to catch a slightly wayward pass from Chalmers near the Miami bench, then firing it in one motion to Wade for an easy score as the reigning MVP toppled atop Heat assistant coach Ron Rothstein. Mike Miller even made the crowd roar for defending Leandro Barbosa and forcing a missed 3-pointer late in the quarter -- the highlight there being Miller played for about a minute while missing one sneaker. When Granger left, it was 56-45. By the end of the quarter, Miamis lead was 76-57, and the Pacers were down another starting forward as well. West left at the end of the period and also headed to the locker room, diagnosed shortly afterward with a sprained left knee. "Im fine," West said, adding that he thinks Granger could be ready to play Thursday. Granger wasnt so sure, though added that his foot would "have to fall off" for him to miss the game. So now the Heat are one win from the East finals, after a series filled with twists and turns. There was Vogels accusation before the series started that the Heat were floppers, Chris Boshs lower abdominal strain that sidelined him midway through Game 1, James and Wade missing key chances late in the Game 2 loss, Stephensons gesture toward James and the 40-point, 18-rebound, nine-assist effort from James in Game 4. And now a blowout -- followed by a chance for a Heat close out on Thursday. "When we defend and we rebound, were a very good team," James said. NOTES: Haslem needed nine stitches after Sundays game to close a cut over his right eye; the Heat distributed 20,000 stickers in homage of the bandage he now wears on Tuesday. ... Indiana has not held the lead at any point in the last 1 hour, 5 minutes, 20 seconds of the series. ... Indiana lost consecutive games for the first time in these playoffs. ... The winner of the rebounding battle has won each game of the series. 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Ecclestone says all 12 teams told him they were happy to travel to the island nation despite violent near-daily clashes between security forces and protesters. On Tuesday, thousands of protesters demanding greater rights for the Shiite majority chanted slogans criticizing the Sunni rulers and called for the release of political prisoners, including Mushaima and al-Khawaja, who has been on hunger strike for more than two months. And on Wednesday, security forces fired stun grenades at anti-government protesters at a cultural exhibition for the race. The Coalition of the Youth of the February 14 Revolution and other rights groups have said protests will continue through the weekend. They argue the race should be postponed until the government ends its rights abuses, enacts meaningful reforms and starts dialogue with the opposition. "The regime was isolated because of the crimes it committed and the Bahrain Grand Prix is giving a way out for the government, especially the royal family," said Nabeel Rajab, president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights. "We need this regime to be punished for the crimes it has committed in the past year and half." The race itself should be a wide-open affair with no clear favourite and at least half a dozeen drivers with a solid chance to win.dddddddddddd The races unpredictability is a reflection of a surprising F1 season in which three different drivers have won the first three races. McLarens Lewis Hamilton, who has finished third in all three races, leads the drivers standings with 45 points, two ahead of teammate Jenson Button, who won the season-opening Australian GP and finished second in China. Fernando Alonso of Ferrari, who won the Malaysian GP, is third with 37 points, followed by Red Bull teammates Mark Webber (36) and Vettel (28), who has struggled this year. For Bahrains Sunni rulers, the race is nothing short of an economic lifeline. The Bahrain GP is the nations biggest sports event, drawing a worldwide TV audience of about 100 million in 187 countries. It brought in $500 million in 2010 and 100,000 visitors, according to global risk analysis group Maplecroft. Such an infusion is desperately needed in a country whose economy contracted 50 per cent last year due to the unrest, Maplecroft said. Organizers have repeatedly insisted the race will be safe and that security fears are overblown. They have blamed extremist groups using "scare-mongering tactics" for raising doubts about the race and have employed everyone from Bahrain soccer coach Peter Taylor to John Yates, a former assistant commissioner in the London Metropolitan Police Service, to assure Formula One teams and fans that the race will be problem-free. "This race is more than a mere global sport event and should not be politicized to serve certain goals, which may be detrimental to this international gathering," said Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa as he toured the Bahrain International Circuit on Tuesday. He owns the rights to the grand prix and serves as commander of the armed forces. cheap jerseys from china ' ' '