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By Ira Winderman South Florida Sun Sentinel 6:12 p.m. EST, January 16, 2013 OAKLAND, Calif.— The Miami Heat are recalling center Dexter Pittman from the D-League. He will rejoin the team for Thursday’s game against the Los Angeles Lakers at Staples Center. Pittman appeared in 10 games for the Sioux Falls (S.D.) Skyforce, [...]
INDIANAPOLIS— The Miami Heat have released seldom-used backup center Josh Harrellson. Monday was the deadline for NBA teams to release players with non-guaranteed contracts, otherwise those contracts would become guaranteed for the balance of the season. The Heat made a similar move Saturday when they released seldom-used backup guard Terrel Harris. [...]
RALEIGH, N.C.— Sometimes the game provides the answers, even when the game doesn’t count. Tuesday it did to the question of: Why are the Miami Heat starting career power forward Chris Bosh at center? The first answer was Brendan Haywood, the amnesty retread the Charlotte Bobcats opened with at center opposite Bosh. [...]
MIAMI— The compromise for Chris Bosh is that he will play the role of center without looking like one. An All-Star power forward at midseason in 2011-12, Bosh eventually morphed into the Miami Heat’s championship center by season’s end. But he said Friday that while he has come to accept the role [...]
Clockwise from top left: Heat centers of note include Shaquille O’Neal, Rony Seikaly, Alonzo Mourning, Brian Grant and Jermaine O’Neal. (File) (September 22, 2012) By Ira Winderman South Florida Sun Sentinel 7:38 a.m. EDT, September 24, 2012 MIAMI— The Miami Heat this season celebrate their 25th anniversary. In commemoration, the Sun Sentinel is conducting [...]
MIAMI— On a roster that has only Joel Anthony and Dexter Pittman under contract at center, Miami Heat President Pat Riley has reiterated that he sees no need to aggressively pursue a veteran in free agency. “We definitely are going to continue to look for somebody in that spot, but unless there’s an [...]
With their 2012 NBA championship, the Miami Heat added currency to coach Erik Spoelstra’s notion of “position-less basketball.” Now, one of his players has exported it to the Olympics, with LeBron James not only a starting forward for USA Basketball, but also cast as the team’s backup center behind Tyson Chandler, the lone [...]
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