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CHICAGO— Second in media balloting for the NBA’s Defensive Player of the Year award, Miami Heat forward LeBron James on Monday was named to the NBA’s first-team All-Defensive team in voting by the league’s 30 coaches. A week after being named NBA Most Valuable Player for the fourth time, James was one of [...]
MIAMI — LeBron James got to this point by avoiding the expectations. He has been in the spotlight since he was a teenager. He appeared on the cover of national magazines in high school. He was always considered the next great basketball player. Yet he got here by blocking it all out. James on Sunday [...]
MIAMI— For weeks, Miami Heat forward LeBron James has been asked what it will be like to be named NBA Most Valuable Player for a fourth time, his season so dominant that the results of the media balloting were considered an afterthought. Sunday, at a presentation at AmericanAirlines Arena, he will be able [...]
Now that’s how you start a playoffs if you’re LeBron James, barely missing a shot, leading all players in assists and rebounds and then summing up the night’s story not with a rafter-shaking dunk but with something lighter. More fun. By flapping your wings. Chris “Birdman” Andersen was over there, under the basket, having just [...]
From left: Mario Chalmers, LeBron James, Chris Bosh took the night off Monday in Cleveland, while Heat teammates Dwyane Wade, Shane Battier and Udonis Haslem did not even travel. (Aaron Josefczyk, Reuters) (April 15, 2013) By Shandel Richardson South Florida Sun Sentinel 11:36 a.m. EDT, April 17, 2013 MIAMI — Miami Heat forward LeBron James [...]
By Chuck Schilken 2:48 p.m. EDT, April 9, 2013 Carmelo Anthony may not be as overpaid as Forbes thinks he is. On the same day the financial magazine named the New York star the league’s most overpaid player, the NBA revealed that Anthony has the league’s top-selling jersey, moving up from No. 4 in his [...]
CHICAGO— It’s not like LeBron James hasn’t complained about it before. It’s just this time he was a little more straightforward in voicing his frustrations. When he was done discussing the end of the Miami Heat’s 27-game winning streak, the focus was turned to a pair of hard fouls he took in Wednesday’s loss to [...]
By Ira Winderman South Florida Sun Sentinel 1:05 p.m. EDT, March 15, 2013 The most powerful athlete in U.S. professional sports? The would be LeBron James, and for more than his powerful build. The 2013 Bloomberg “Sportfolio” Power 100 has the Heat forward at the top of the class, after being ranked fourth in the [...]
MIAMI— In a season of statements, the Miami Heat might have made one of their biggest ones Friday night with what didn’t happen. With the Heat’s winning streak in the balance, with the Philadelphia 76ers still within striking range, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra played the final 8:02 of what turned into a 102-93 [...]
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