By Ira Winderman South Florida Sun Sentinel 2:09 a.m. EDT, April 18, 2013 MIAMI— Series schedule: Miami Heat vs. Milwaukee Bucks (Best-of-7 NBA playoff first-round series) Game 1: Sunday at AmericanAirlines Arena, 7 p.m., Sun Sports, TNT Game 2: Tuesday at AmericanAirlines Arena, 7:30 p.m., Sun Sports, NBA TV Game 3: Thursday, April 25 at [...]
Heat trade out of first round, get 76ers future 1st-rounder
MIAMI— With the No. 27 pick in Thursday’s NBA Draft, the Miami Heat selected . . . nobody. Instead of adding another guaranteed contract while already deep into the increasingly punitive NBA luxury tax, the Heat instead dealt the No. 27 pick they held by virtue of the NBA’s fourth-best record to the Philadelphia 76ers. [...]
Tickets for Round 2 vs. Pacers on sale Thursday 10 a.m.
By Ira Winderman South Florida Sun Sentinel 9:53 p.m. EDT, May 9, 2012 MIAMI— Tickets for the first two games of the Miami Heat’s best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinals NBA playoff series against the Indiana Pacers at AmericanAirlines Arena go on sale Thursday at 10 a.m. Game 1 is Sunday at 3:30 p.m. Details [...]
So will it have to be Knicks or Celtics for Heat in first round?
(TO COMMENT, CLICK ON “COMMENTS” TOP LEFT)— Somehow it doesn’t seem quite fitting to finish at the top of the Eastern Conference and have to open the playoffs against the Knicks or Celtics. Yet based on where those two teams are headed, or, more to the point, aren’t headed, that might prove to be the [...]
Dwyane Wade won’t square off for Round 2 vs. Stern
By Ira Winderman South Florida Sun Sentinel 5:28 p.m. EDT, October 3, 2011 MIAMI— Apparently there will be no Round 2 between David Stern and Dwyane Wade. Despite a confrontation with the NBA commissioner at a collective-bargaining session last week, the Miami Heat guard, according to an NBA.com report, had been invited to return for [...]
Heat trade into 1st round, select Cleveland State PG Norris Cole
MIAMI— The Miami Heat’s wheel of point guards stopped on Cleveland State’s Norris Cole at Thursday’s NBA Draft. The wheel just didn’t stop where it was expected. After downplaying the possibility of trading into the first round, the Heat did just that, acquiring the No. 28 selection from the Minnesota Timberwolves in exchange for the [...]
Can Heat buy into NBA Draft first round?
To a degree, the frustration for the Miami Heat extended beyond the court, into the front office and right down to the payroll this season. Even if they wanted to do more, they couldn’t. Because cap space was used to add LeBron James and Chris Bosh, the Heat lacked exception money to push the payroll [...]
Heat guard Mike Bibby moves past poor first round
MIAMI— Heat guard Mike Bibby gets right to the point. He played poorly in the first round against the Philadelphia 76ers. He admits it. Now, it’s time to move on. The Heat will need more from Bibby if there is any chance of getting past the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference semifinals. “I didn’t [...]
