NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- "NBA Finals Schedule" is trending on the Internet Friday after the Miami Heat beat the Chicago Bulls Thursday to earn a spot in the NBA Championship. The Heat will meet the Dallas Mavericks in the finals.
The championship will air beginning Tuesday night on ABC.
The series won't be short on star power as Miami features three of the league's top scorers in LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and big man Chris Bosh, and Dallas boasts Dirk Nowitzki, who has averaged more than 28 points a game during the playoffs.
The matchup duplicates the 2006 NBA Finals in which Miami won four games to two, as Wade bested Nowitzki by averaging a staggering 34.7 points a game.
The Heat made headlines last summer when the team signed James and Bosh -- big contract players -- and publicized the event along with Wade as the "Big Three." The maneuver incensed fans in Cleveland because they felt their former star and local high school hero, James, betrayed them.
"Measles" is trending on the Web after the Charlottesville-Albermarle Health Department reported a measles outbreak in the Charlottesville, Va., area.
The disease spread after a woman who had contracted the disease from India passed it along to two other people, the department confirmed.
Virginia experienced only three outbreaks of measles last year, and no cases have been reported in Charlottesville since 1990.
The gravity of the situation is uncertain, said Dr. Lilian Peake, director of the Thomas Jefferson Health District.
"I think that at this point we're just investigating and I don't have a sense of that yet," Peake said. She believes there is a risk for more cases.
"Air France 447" was trending on the Web after France's Bureau of Investigation and Analysis reported that the airliner plunged alost two years ago into the Atlantic Ocean because the airspeed sensors failed.
Airbus A330 Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed on June 1, 2009, and killed all 228 people on board.
The speed sensors likely failed because of icing that also affected the plane's fuselage and wings, the report said.
The report comes less than a month after search teams found the critical "data recorders."
Flight 447 had climbed to nearly 38,000 feet when the stall warning triggered an alarm.
Officials say the plane dived at 10,912 feet per minute.
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