Not Brooklyn. Too thin. Not Chicago. Too hurt. Not New York. Too one-dimensional. This might be the hardest part of the spring for the Heat, the waiting. The time debating the issue of rest vs. rust. And as the Heat wait, and wait, for their second-round series to start on Monday, questions sprout like Shane [...]
Heat survive in OT in biggest playoff comeback, 115-111 over Celtics
MIAMI— At the outset, this hardly had the feel of a comeback for the ages. And it certainly didn’t at the end of regulation. But against the aged, the Miami Heat survived fourth-quarter disaster and had the legs to pull it off, in what turned into a 115-111 overtime victory Wednesday night over the Boston [...]
Hyde5: Is low-post LeBron’s biggest need?
By Staff Writer August 10, 2011 07:09 AM 1. Eight years into his career, LeBron James finally is working on a low-post game. That’s overdue. That was obvious most recently when Dallas played 6-2, 210-pound Jason Kidd on the 6-8, 265-pound James in the NBA Finals. But is the low post the most critical addition [...]
NBA FINALS: Miami at Dallas, 9 p.m. tonight (ABC-TV) Miami Heat’s LeBron James: ‘This is the biggest game of my career’
By Ira Winderman South Florida Sun-Sentinel 1:15 p.m. EDT, June 9, 2011 DALLAS— Miami Heat forward LeBron James didn’t mince words as he emerged from Thursday morning’s shootaround, in advance of Thursday night’s Game 5 of the NBA Finals against the Dallas Mavericks. “This is what I’ve been dreaming about my whole life,” he said, [...]
