MIAMI — — One might assume that Heat guard Dwyane Wade was happy to see the Knicks push the Pacers to a sixth game in their series, because it guaranteed an extra two days of rest for Wade before the start of the Eastern Conference finals, now set for Wednesday. But Wade said after Friday’s [...]
Dwyane Wade’s success doesn’t seem to impress hometown Chicago
CHICAGO — Back then, Dwyane Wade had it all planned it out. Like others before him, he was set play to high school basketball here in the inner-city. Then maybe, just maybe, he would have avoided having to play catch-up all these years to those who came before him. Some were just as talented, others [...]
LeBron James on being highest-paid: “It doesn’t matter.”
INDIANAPOLIS –— LeBron James has been considered the league’s best player for the last few years. He’s shown that with most valuable player awards, statistics and winning a championship. The lone area where his value doesn’t show is his paycheck. James is tied with teammate Chris Bosh as the league’s 13th-highest paid player, according to [...]
The road doesn’t get any easier for the Heat
BOSTON— The homestand was short and sweet. Too short. Having returned a week earlier from a six-game, 12-day trip, the Miami Heat headed out Saturday on a four-game, nine-day trip that opens with Sunday’s nationally televised game against the Boston Celtics at TD Garden. “You would think,” forward LeBron James said, “winning [...]
Mike Miller doesn’t travel; Pittman’s fouls addressed
MIAMI— Miami Heat swingman Mike Miller was left behind Monday when the team departed for the three-game trip that opens Tuesday against the Orlando Magic. Miller sprained his left ankle in the second quarter of Saturday’s overtime victory over the Indiana Pacers. “It is what we thought it was, it’s a sprain [...]
Pat Riley: It doesn’t matter if we don’t have enough
The question was about whether the Heat accomplished their personnel goals with the regular season mere days away. But the one thing with Pat Riley is it’s never about the question, only the answer the Miami Heat president had scripted on the ubiquitous blue note card he carried into Friday’s state-of-the-Heat preseason media session at [...]
Pat Riley: It doesn’t matter if we don’t have enough
The question was about whether the Heat accomplished their personnel goals with the regular season mere days away. But the one thing with Pat Riley is it’s never about the question, only the answer the Miami Heat president had scripted on the ubiquitous blue note card he carried into Friday’s state-of-the-Heat preseason media session at [...]
Riley: LeBron doesn’t need go-to move; has go-to game
MIAMI— Pat Riley’s recommendation? Exhale. As difficult as the ending was for the Miami Heat just over a week ago, coming up two victories short against the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Finals, the Heat’s president said Tuesday he does not envision the need for dramatic changes. That includes the need for LeBron James to [...]
Tougher law with bigger fines slows, but doesn’t stop, South Florida street racers
It’s a deadly game, but teens and young adults keep playing it, cheered on by their peers. About 11 p.m. on weekends, after legal racing ends at a regional track in Miami-Dade County, and on Wednesday nights, a gas station on U.S. 27 in Pembroke Pines becomes the site of an impromptu auto-and-cycle show. In [...]
