Chris Bosh helps makes Heat a swat team in playoffs

MIAMI—    Erik Spoelstra’s message to Chris Bosh was clear: What goes up must come down. And then go up and come down again. And again. And again.    “What we’ve wanted from him this season was to focus on jumping,” Spoelstra said, “focus on how many jumps can he get in a possession.”    [...]

Now the playoffs really start for Heat

Always, for teams climbing the mountain, there are nights like this, when their breathing’s labored, and their opponent plays hard, and there’s healthy spasms of doubt if they’re who everyone thinks they are. So it was late into Game 5 of the Heat’s 94-91 win Wednesday night to close out the playoff series against Chicago. [...]

Arena offers new, upscale cuisine for playoffs

MIAMI — The Miami Heat have been saving their best for the playoffs. So has food services at AmericanAirlines Arena, which will roll out a full-court press of restaurant-quality items over the first three rounds of the postseason on the concourses and in premium areas beginning with Sunday’s opener against Milwaukee. “There’s always going to [...]

Time for Heat to relax before playoffs

MIAMI — Carmelo Anthony, Kevin Durant and Kobe Bryant will end up averaging more points than LeBron James this regular season. DeAndre Jordan will have the league’s best field-goal percentage, Dwight Howard the most rebounds. None of that changes this: LeBron James finishes with numbers across the board that define him as the certified star [...]

Spoelstra relishing options of depth for playoffs

MIAMI—    The goal never was open auditions. But that, Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said, doesn’t mean there aren’t playoff roles available for players who have been filling in recently for the team’s sidelined stars.    Asked after Wednesday’s road victory over the Washington Wizards whether Mike Miller, amid the injury absence of Dwyane [...]

Clarity? Continuity? Not for Heat in these NBA playoffs

OKLAHOMA CITY—   For three rounds now in this postseason ride that has delivered them to the NBA Finals, the Miami Heat have faced stability, their opponents pushing forward with an established lineup, reliable rotation, singular game plan.    By contrast, the Heat hardly have been the face of continuity, with nightly last-minute notification of [...]

NBA PLAYOFFS: Heat at Celtics, 8:30 p.m. (TV: ESPN) LeBron: Lack of definitive starting center an issue for Heat

BOSTON— The revolving door at center has been undeniable for the Miami Heat these past two seasons. Thursday, LeBron James addressed the impact. With coach Erik Spoelstra considering starting Chris Bosh in the middle for Thursday night’s Game 6 against the Boston Celtics in these Eastern Conference finals, it would leave the Heat with four [...]

NBA PLAYOFFS: Celtics at Heat, 8:30 p.m. tonight, TV: ESPN Miami Heat forward Chris Bosh game-time decision for Game 5

(June 4, 2012) By Shandel Richardson South Florida Sun-Sentinel 1:32 p.m. EDT, June 5, 2012 MIAMI— Miami Heat forward Chris Bosh will be a “game-time” decision against the Boston Celtics in Tuesday’s Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals. Coach Erik Spoelstra said Bosh went through the team’s morning shootaround. A final decision will be [...]

NBA PLAYOFFS: Heat at Celtics, 8:30 p.m. tonight (TV: ESPN) Still out, Chris Bosh plays role of Kevin Garnett on scout team

BOSTON— Chris Bosh still isn’t ready to face Kevin Garnett, but he is healthy enough to imitate him. Back on the floor with his teammates for the first time since sustaining a lower-abdominal strain during the first half of the first game of the Miami Heat’s previous playoff series against the Indiana Pacers, Bosh handled [...]

NBA PLAYOFFS: Heat at Celtics, 8:30 p.m. Friday (TV: ESPN) Miami Heat guard Mario Chalmers becomes third scoring option

Mario Chalmers had just completed yet another strong performance in this postseason. As he was about to hop on the cart that taxis players from the locker room to interview podium following Wednesday’s victory, he couldn’t help but crack a joke to the driver. “You need to put some spinners (rims) on this,” Chalmers said. [...]

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