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MIAMI — — Dwyane Wade will only think about it after the season if the Miami Heat accomplish their goal. Only after winning a championship will Wade take time to reflect on the greatest regular season in franchise history. If the Heat fail in their attempt to repeat, thinking back will have to wait a [...]
Dave Hyde 7:54 a.m. EDT, March 22, 2013 1. What’s more impressive: The Heat winning 33 straight or the Hurricanes winning the national title? This is a tough one, and it depends how you define, “impressive.” If you shift it to meaning: What’s more important? That’s easy. The Canes winning a title is more important [...]
By Ira Winderman South Florida Sun Sentinel 3:12 p.m. EST, January 30, 2013 BROOKLYN, N.Y.— Mark it down, it took until midseason for the first opposing player to question the validity of the Miami Heat’s 2102 championship due to the lockout-shortened 2011-12 season. The moment came during the Brooklyn Nets’ Wednesday shootaround, when [...]
DALLAS— If nothing else, the opening tip of Thursday night’s game against the Dallas Mavericks was proof enough of how continuity can be fleeting in the NBA, even for a champion. Of the players available in the Mavericks’ primary rotation for the nationally televised game against the Heat, only forward Shawn Marion played [...]
MIAMI— It has been five months since the Heat won the 2012 NBA championship and even in the wake of a lockout-shortened regular season, there had been nary a word about a tainted championship. Until now. Enter TNT/NBA TV analyst Shaquille O’Neal. A member of the Heat’s 2006 championship team that [...]
By going with a state-by-state approach with its annual Sexiest Man Alive edition, People magazine opened the door to one Heat player, while another felt it slammed in his face. Yes, that was Mario Chalmers selected as sexiest from Alaska. Asked if he considers himself sexy, Chalmers said, “I consider myself a basketball player.” Then [...]
We appreciate that you kids need your new-fangled sabermetrics and quantitative analysis. But with all due respect to Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey and even Miami Heat analyst Bob Chaikin, there still is something to be said for the old-school box score, with its neat columns, statistical delineations that do not require [...]
MIAMI— — LeBron James has seen it happen to several superstars. They win one championship and never experience it again. James wants to avoid being one-hit wonder by reveling in last year’s success, but remaining focused on the long term. “We’re not going to take this moment for granted,” James said. “It doesn’t happen to [...]
What do the acquisitions of Dwight Howard and Steve Nash do for the Los Angeles Lakers? In this case make them second to one, the Miami Heat, at least when it comes to betting lines. In the wake of the Lakers’ acquisition of Howard from the Orlando Magic, the oddmakers at Bovada.lv noted Friday that [...]
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