TWO days after Bam Adebayo blamed himself for a Game 5 loss, he played the best game of his career and sent the Miami Heat to the NBA Finals.

Adebayo scored 32 in Game 6 in a 125-113 victory over the Celtics on Sunday to close the Eastern Conference finals.

Miami opens the NBA Finals on Wednesday against old friend LeBron James and his Los Angeles Lakers.

“That’s a great storyline, right?” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said on the ESPN broadcast. “Can you let us enjoy this for a little bit right now? This is hard to do. It’s hard to get to this point, and I want our guys to recognize that, acknowledge it, enjoy it for at least tonight, and then we’ll get on to that tomorrow.”

The Celtics, who led in the fourth quarter of each of the six games, took their last lead of the series with 6:53 remaining in Game 6, because Adebayo scored or assisted on his team’s next 11 points — the last of which came on a feed to Duncan Robinson for a 3-pointer that pushed Miami’s lead to 107-102.

Adebayo was the catalyst for a 26-6 run over a seven-minute stretch that transformed a 96-90 fourth-quarter deficit into an insurmountable 116-102 advantage with 2:40 left. With the game slipping away and the season hanging in the balance, Boston missed four straight threes, sandwiched around a turnover, and capped by a missed technical free throw. It would have been an astonishing collapse for a Celtics team that had scrapped its way to the lead, if they had not already blown bigger fourth-quarter leads in the series.

Adebayo added 14 boards and five assists to his 32 points. Miami got double-digit scoring from five others, including an unlikely 15 points on 5-for-5 shooting from 36-year-old trade acquisition Andre Iguodala, the ex-Golden State Warriors forward now making a sixth straight Finals appearance. Iguodala does so for the first time as an underdog opposite James, the man he defended en route to winning the 2015 Finals MVP.

“We’ve been in each other’s corner all year long, and it doesn’t stop here,” said Miami’s Jimmy Butler, the All-Star who will make his first Finals appearance in his first season in Miami.

Boston will be haunted by its fourth-quarter failures. The Celtics blew a 14-point last-quarter lead in Game 1, before Adebayo’s legendary block sealed Miami’s overtime victory. (SD-Agencies)