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MIAMI— It is still too early for a final answer, with the stakes yet to be raised. But after becoming an afterthought at the end of last season’s championship run, the Miami Heat’s bench may actually be a factor this postseason. Granted, several elements contributed to the impressive effort of the Heat bench [...]
MILWAUKEE— Erik Spoelstra appreciates the appreciation. The bench that Pat Riley and the team’s front office provided made it easier for the Miami Heat to take a 2-0 lead into Thursday’s Game 3 against the Milwaukee Bucks in this best-of-seven opening-round NBA playoff series. But going into Game 3 at the BMO Harris [...]
MIAMI— Josh Harrellson knows what he signed up for. He just didn’t think it would require a wardrobe makeover. Not only has the offseason free-agent addition appeared in only three games for a total of 10 minutes this season, but he hasn’t even been in uniform in eight of the Miami Heat’s first [...]
MIAMI— After playing as a mainstay in the Miami Heat’s rotation to start the season, Rashard Lewis now finds himself biding his time on the bench. Lewis was held out for a second consecutive game Saturday due to “coach’s decision,” although coach Erik Spoelstra cited a cold as a reason for holding out [...]
Rashard Lewis has met his quota for the month. With three weeks left in November, he is done playing above the rim. The two dunks he had Wednesday against the Brooklyn Nets were enough. He will go back to being what the Miami Heat coveted when they signed him in the offseason, and that’s another [...]
He can stop with the teeny, percentage-point improvement. Miami Heat forward Chris Bosh recently said he was only 99 percent healthy. Each day afterward he steadily raised it, going from 99.1 to 99.2 percent. Bosh proved he is fully back with his 19-point, eight-rebound performance Saturday in the series-clinching victory against the Boston Celtics. Now, [...]
CHICAGO – For months, he watched. For weeks, he waited. For the past several days, Udonis HaslemUdonis Haslem wondered if he’d play even as he repeated a public mantra. “My time will come,” he’d say. And what a desperate time when it finally came Wednesday night. The season was sinking. Chicago smelled blood early in [...]
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