MIAMI— The first 50 have put the Miami Heat in a good place, their 36-14 record leaving them four games clear of the New York Knicks for the top seed in the Eastern Conference. While the Oklahoma City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs could need all 82 to sort out the top seed [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Chris Bosh’s angry face (mostly) is no laughing matter
MIAMI— There is anger, there is rage, and then there is the Chris Bosh angry-man face. In the heat of battle, it is no laughing matter, like when the Miami Heat power forward flashed it during the crucial stages of Sunday night’s 96-85 victory over the Chicago Bulls that put the Heat up 2-1 in [...]
Shaquille O’Neal set to return for the Celtics, but will it even matter?
MIAMI — Freudian slip of the day in Heat Land? That goes to LeBron James, who said the following when I asked him Friday what potential impact Shaquille O’Neal’s return might have on these Eastern Conference semifinals. “You can only put five guys on the line — on the court — at one time,” James [...]
