Heat sweep a product of depth, cohesion

  The preseason portion of the playoffs is over.    It was a challenge so soft that it did not even require Dwyane Wade or anything close to the best of the Heat for Sunday’s sweep-completing 88-77 victory.    For their next act, the Bucks will now implode, with Monta Ellis, Brandon Jennings and J.J. [...]

Heat seeking first playoff sweep of Big Three era

Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra on the fourth quarter, Dwyane Wade’s knee and Ray Allen By Ira Winderman South Florida Sun Sentinel 2:39 p.m. EDT, April 26, 2013 MILWAUKEE—    What do you get the team that has it all? Its first playoff sweep would be a place to start.    For all the Miami [...]

Heat come up short of sweep, fall 89-87 to Knicks

NEW YORK— The Miami Heat had the opportunity to give themselves a week off. Instead, they took most of Sunday off. And appeared significantly off with their late-game thinking. Dreary for extended stretches and then seemingly brain-locked at the finish, the Heat came up short in an 89-87 loss to the New York Knicks at [...]

Heat hoping for first playoff sweep since 2005

NEW YORK—    It has been seven years. In between, there have been a pair of seventh games.    But you have to go back to Eddie Jones’ decisive 3-point shot with 14.9 seconds to play and the second round of the 2005 playoffs against the Washington Wizards to find the last Miami Heat playoff [...]

Heat sweep season series from Mavs; home win streak at 15

MIAMI— There was a time when the Miami Heat couldn’t beat the Dallas Mavericks. That would have been every single regular-season game the previous seven seasons, as well as the final three games of last season’s NBA Finals. A greater degree of revenge will have to wait. But at least the Heat finally can say [...]

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