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CHICAGO— The NBA cares plenty about what Chicago Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau thinks, fining him $ 35,000 Sunday for his Friday postgame comments about officiating. Erik Spoelstra? Well the Miami Heat coach offered his own powerful retort to Thibodeau’s claims of whistles and double-standards. “I don’t care,” Spoelstra said when the issue [...]
MIAMI— The flop flap ended Friday. At least if Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra has his way. A day after Indiana Pacers coach Frank Vogel said this best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinal playoff series could come down to whether the referees call charging violations when Heat defenders going flailing in the lane, Spoelstra fired [...]
CORAL GABLES, Fla.— Chris Bosh has been through this so many times that he just smiles. Yes, he gets it, that he’s not Shaquille O’Neal’s personification of elite, a star, perhaps even a man. The latest dig comes in O’Neal’s latest autobiography, the just-released “Shaq Uncut: My Story.” Included in the retired center’s inspection of [...]
If you weren’t careful, you easily could have tripped over the Eastern Conference championship trophy late Thursday night. Visitors to the winning locker room, along with Miami Heat players, officials and staff, had to step around the modest mounted bronze basketball, which sat on the floor near the entrance. Eventually, a couple of Heat employees [...]
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