The Denver Nuggets were the heavy favorites to win this NBA Finals, and they are showing why.

The Nuggets took a 3-1 series lead on Friday night with their 108-95 win over the Miami Heat.

Denver is now one win away from their first NBA title in franchise history.

The Nuggets led by four at halftime but opened up the third quarter on a 19-10 run to take a 13-point lead, their largest of the night up to that point. Miami was able to cut their deficit back down to six points, but Denver closed the third on another 12-5 run, regaining their 13-point lead. They closed the third up 86-73.

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The Heat started the fourth quarter in desperation mode, though, and went out to an 8-0 run to cut their deficit down to five points. However, that was the closest they got, and Denver went on another run to ice it.

With 6:34 to go, Miami trailed by six, but Denver followed up with a 17-6 run over the next five minutes to lead by 17, now the largest margin of the night.

Denver's Aaron Gordon was the game's leading scorer with 27 points on 11-of-15 shooting and 3-for-4 from three. Nikola Jokic put up 23 points and grabbed 12 boards, while Bruce Brown scored 21 points, 11 of them coming in the final 5:07. 

As a team, Denver knocked down half of its three-pointers (14-for-28) - Miami hit just eight of 25 (32.0%).

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Jimmy Butler (25) and Bam Adebayo (20) combined for 45 of Miami's 95 points. 

The Nuggets would be just the fifth first-time champion of the 21st century, and the first since the 2015-16 Cleveland Cavaliers.

Ironically enough, if the Heat come back to win the series, they’ll be just the second team in the Finals - joining that Cavs team - and the first to do so in any playoff series since the team they are trying to come back against did it twice in 2020.

Nuggets fans will have the chance to see their team hoist the Larry O’Brien Trophy on their own home court on Monday night, as Game 5 is back in Denver.

Less than two weeks after playing the role of a hero, Los Angeles Rams defensive coordinator Raheem Morris reunited with the boy he saved from drowning.

Morris was vacationing at a hotel with his family when he spotted a 3-year-old named Wyatt in the pool at Encore Las Vegas.

A lifeguard began performing CPR on the boy, but Morris did not want to watch and not assist. 

So, he went to search of an automated external defibrillator (AED).

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"My kids are all in the pool, and I hear a scream. I see Wyatt laying poolside, and he's blue," Morris told ABC's "Good Morning America." "And I can just feel the panic of it all when you're alone."

Morris and another man at the pool, Dr. Andrew Oleksyn, helped bring the boy back to life. The doctor administered CPR, while Morris used the AED.

Morris credited the Rams training staff for proper first aid training and helping him understand protocols.

"I saw people calling 911, so my first question was, 'Where is the AED?" Morris said. "When I got back, we had a doctor on site that was able to start the compressions. I was able to hand the AED to him, get it open for him, put the pads on the child, and he ended up being OK," Morris told ESPN shortly after the incident.

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"It's truly a miracle when I try to wrap my mind around everything that happened," Kelseigh Stanley, Wyatt's mother, told "GMA."

"God placed them all directly where they needed to be."

AEDs have become more prevalent since one was used to help save Damar Hamlin, who went into cardiac arrest after making a tackle on "Monday Night Football." Morris noted that incident, as well as Shaq Barrett's 2-year-old daughter's drowning death, helped increase awareness and preparation for these emergencies.

Morris is entering his third season as the Rams' defensive coordinator after spending six seasons with the Atlanta Falcons.