By Ira Winderman South Florida Sun Sentinel 3:12 p.m. EST, January 30, 2013 BROOKLYN, N.Y.— Mark it down, it took until midseason for the first opposing player to question the validity of the Miami Heat’s 2102 championship due to the lockout-shortened 2011-12 season. The moment came during the Brooklyn Nets’ Wednesday shootaround, when [...]
Mike Krzyzewski calls LeBron ‘most unique player’ ever
MIAMI— The embrace they shared Sunday in London after their gold-medal moment was heartfelt. So is the enduring impression LeBron James left with U.S. Olympic coach Mike Krzyzewski. “He’s the most unique player to ever play basketball,” the Duke coach said Wednesday of the Miami Heat forward, “because he can play every position, [...]
NBA PLAYOFFS: Pacers at Heat, 8 p.m. tonight (TV: TNT) Miami Heat’s LeBron James calls Danny Granger’s antics ‘stupid’
MIAMI –— Miami Heat forward LeBron James has one message for Danny Granger. It’s not going to work. Granger, the Indiana Pacers’ starting forward, has drawn three technical fouls in this best-of-seven series in the Eastern Conference semifinals. It’s been his way of showing the Pacers are unafraid of the Heat, and perhaps an attempt [...]
NBA PLAYOFFS: Pacers at Heat, 3:30 p.m., Sunday (TV-ABC) Pacers coach calls Heat a bunch of flop artists
MIAMI— So how is Miami Heat vs. Indiana Pacers going to start? Apparently with the Pacers calling the Heat cheaters. With the Pacers practicing Thursday at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis and the Heat taking Thursday off, the first salvo of the series belonged to Pacers coach Frank Vogel. “They are the [...]
Thunder-ous fallout: Udonis Haslem calls Kendrick Perkins a phony tough guy
MIAMI— The pushback came in the second quarter Wednesday against the Oklahoma City. The question now is whether that moment endures for the Miami Heat, reignites the fire that seemingly had lost its, well, heat these past six uneven weeks. If Kendrick Perkins’ shove against Dwyane Wade and Russell Westbrook’s takedown of [...]
Shaquille O’Neal calls out LeBron James in new book
Had the NBA lockout not gotten in the way, we could have heard the words, instead of being reduced to reading them. Thursday night, TNT had been scheduled to televise Heat-Magic, which would have afforded Shaquille O’Neal, in his new studio role with the network, an opportunity to address two of his former teams. For [...]
Dwyane Wade calls out LeBron, no umbrage taken
At times such as these, with all the analysis, inspection, supposition that the NBA Finals deliver with the abundance of media presence, sometimes you just ask the question and allow the answers to stand for themselves. Dwyane Wade got in LeBron James’ face late in Sunday’s 88-86 victory in Dallas, not that there’s anything wrong [...]
