Fans chatted online with Spirit Dancer Taylor and Heat Dancer Sari on Thursday, April 3rd. The Spirit Dance Team and Heat Dancers are going head-to-head in the final round of this year's Dance Team Bracket. Will the Heat Dancers defend their back-to-back titles as the fans' favorite dance team? Or will the Spirit take this year's crown? You decide! Voting ends Friday, April 4th at 12:00 pm (ET). You must be registered as an NBA All-Access member to vote in the NBA.com Dance Team Bracket. Access is free, so sign up today. Check out team videos and photos before making your vote!  Spirit Dancer Taylor: Thanks for coming online to chat today! Be sure to vote for your favorite dance team today and tomorrow. We'll find out which team is your favorite tomorrow. Let's get to your questions!
Antwan (Corona): To either. What are you going to do after you win the Dance Bracket?  Heat Dancer Sari: Of course, we'll celebrate! That would make three years in a row that we've won. We'll thank all of our fans at our game on Sunday, and we'll enjoy it with our team!
Spirit Dancer Taylor: We would celebrate, too. This would be our first victory in the bracket. Then we're going to Disneyland!
Heat Dancer Sari: We'll go to Disneyworld!
Tallinn: Hi Sari and Taylor. Who is your favorite team player? Heat Dancer Sari: My favorite team player is Udonis Haslem.
Spirit Dancer Taylor: My favorite is Quinton Ross. But Elton Brand is a close second. Especially now that he's back!
Liz: Who do you both look up to - both personally and professionally? Spirit Dancer Taylor: Personally, I look up to my mother for a million different reasons, I couldn't state just one. Professionally I look up to our Team Director Jessie Christensen because she has been able to balance family and work for years and does a great job at it.
Heat Dancer Sari: Personally I look up to my mother and my grandmother, and choreographer Mia Michaels. Professionally, I look up to my coach Janine Thompson for putting up with all of us and our different personalities.
Jeff E. (Holland, MI): For both dancers... what's your favorite sport to watch other than basketball, and what teams do you root for? Also, who do you enjoy watching in the NBA that's NOT on the team you dance for? Heat Dancer Sari: My favorite sport is definitely football, and I root for the Miami Dolphins, and I love the Green Bay Packers. I also love UFC!
As for who I enjoy watching in the NBA, I love Manu Ginobili. Spirit Dancer Taylor: College Football! I love the University of Oregon. Go Ducks!
Around the league, I enjoy watching Steve Nash from the Phoenix Suns. Braylon E. (OH): This question is for both dancers. Have each of you ever been to your competitor's city? If so, what's the biggest difference between South Beach and the South Land, and what do you like most about where you live? Heat Dancer Sari: No, I've never been to Los Angeles. I live in Ft. Lauderdale and I love the beach. I love being able to wakeup on the weekends and drive 15 minutes to the beach. That's the main thing I love about living here, but I also love to keep in touch with my friends who haven't moved away. I also love my job where I live. I have an amazing job as an Assistant Event Planner.
Spirit Dancer Taylor: I have never been to Miami. I'd love to go! L.A. is such a melting pot for culture, and I really love that about Los Angeles. And of course, I love the weather.
Tom C. (Chicago): I'm a chef at a five-star restaurant in Chicago, and I was just wondering... if I could cook you anything for a three-course meal - appetizer, main course and dessert - what would you want me to cook? Heat Dancer Sari: Appetizer: anything with shrimp or mozzarella with tomato, onions, basil and Italian dressing.
Main course: definitely a New York strip steak, asparagus and maybe something creative. Nothing with mangos - I'm allergic. Dessert: anything with loads and loads of chocolate! Chocolate molten cake, hot fudge sundae, anything CHOCOLATE! You can be creative. I'm always up for trying something now. Enrique (Hollywood, CA): If you could meet one celebrity, who would it be? Spirit Dancer Taylor: Lance Armstrong because he is such a huge inspiration. I also just finished my first triathalon, and I could use some pointers!
Heat Dancer Sari: I would love to meet Matthew McConaughy.
Steve P. (San Francisco): This question is for both dancers - Do you listen to music before dancing and, if so, what song gets you most 'pumped up'? Spirit Dancer Taylor: Not all of the time, but for the most part we listen to music before we perform. For a very strange reason that I can't figure out, my favorite song to dance to before we perform is "September" by Earth, Wind & Fire!
Heat Dancer Sari: I don't usually listen to music before we perform because we're usually running around the arena taking pictures and signing autographs, but... "It Takes Two" by Rob Base makes me really happy!
Sarah Connor (Hazeltucky): What is your favorite style of dance? Heat Dancer Sari: My favorite style is definitely jazz.
Spirit Dancer Taylor: I love contemporary.
Matt (Royal Oak, MI): What do the two of you think... is it diet or exercise that keeps you such great shape? Spirit Dancer Taylor: Both!
Heat Dancer Sari: Definitely both!
Lorant (Budapest, Hungary): Hi! Would you come to Europe and dance on NBA Europe Live matches? (If it were possible!) Heat Dancer Sari: Definitely! That would be an honor for us to go over there and perform!
Spirit Dancer Taylor: Absolutely! Can we both go over there and perform?
Glenn (Detroit): What's the worst pick-up line that someone has tried to use on either of you? Heat Dancer Sari: The one that I think is so cheesy is when somebody grabs your T-Shirt, looks at the tag and says, "Ahhh. Just what I thought. Made in heaven!"
Spirit Dancer Taylor: When a fan came up to me and said, "I think I hurt my back exercising. Is there any way you can do my MRI scan?"
Stacey (The D): If you could be a famous musician, what kind of music would you perform? Heat Dancer Sari: Definitely rock. Ballads too - like Monster Power Ballads. Let's bring back Whitesnake and Poison!
Spirit Dancer Taylor: I'd go with rock, too.
Derek (LA): This question is for both girls - if you could travel anywhere in the world, with unlimited funds, where would you go and who would you take with you? Spirit Dancer Taylor: Korea, Japan, China - I'd love to travel that part of the world. I've never been to that part of the world and I'd love to explore. I would go by myself; I absolutely love traveling alone.
Heat Dancer Sari: I would definitely go to Tahiti, and I would bring with somebody who meant a lot to me.
Mike: Do you think that there should be a "dance off" of some sort where you get to show off your talents and skills or do you girls like the brackets/competition as they are now? Heat Dancer Sari: I honestly feel that the best dance team in the NBA should be a dance competition. Every team has beautiful girls, but if it were allowed, I think that a competition would be wonderful. I think it should absolutely be a dance competition!
Spirit Dancer Taylor: I agree 100%. Everybody has beautiful women, so I think we need the competition. Everybody would get "served" by the Clippers Spirit!
Heat Dancer Sari: That's why there should be a dance competition!
Tim (Whittier, CA): Taylor, you're such a nice person and I'm so happy to know you these past several seasons. Who is your pick in the NCAA Tournament this year? Spirit Dancer Taylor: UCLA!
Brian S. : Sari... pick one or the other:
George Clooney or Will Smith? Ellen: For both dancers... what are three words that describe your team? Heat Dancer Sari: Only three? Fierce, talented and unique.
Spirit Dancer Taylor: Classy, talented and cohesive.
Ron B. (San Diego): This question is for both dancers: How many sit-ups can you do? Over 1,000? Spirit Dancer Taylor: I can't do 1,000 at once... but as long as there's no time limit, I'd go with 2,000.
Heat Dancer Sari: If I really had to, and I had lots of water and towels right by me, I'd just continue to do them until my trainer told me to stop!
Don C. (Texas): Do you prefer classic movies or remakes? i.e. Ocean's Eleven, Gone in 60 Seconds, King Kong, etc. Heat Dancer Sari: Classic movies.
Spirit Dancer Taylor: Classics.
Rick (Irvine, CA): Do you have any pets? Heat Dancer Sari: I have two Rhodesian Ridgebacks. The male is Kane who's two and a half, and the little girl who's seven months old, her name is Zoey.
Spirit Dancer Taylor: No pets for me.
Mike: Why should I vote for either of your teams? Spirit Dancer Taylor: We are a classy, All-American group of highly intelligent women! Oh, and we can dance, too!
Heat Dancer Sari: We are talented, beautiful women who work really hard representiing our team on and off the court.
Heat Dancer Sari: Thank you to all of our fans out there for showing your interest in both of us and thank you for all of your questions. Please, please, please vote for your favorite NBA dance team!
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