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Are Dwyane Wade and Spoelstra on the Same Page?

You don't usually think of the All-Star Game as a place to make a statement. In fact, as Krolik observed yesterday, too much ASW shine can give the wrong impression. Case in point: Isn't there something a little tawdry about "three-time Dunk Contest champion Nate Robinson?" But it happens. Allen Iverson partisans would...

Heat Starring in Episode of 'Lost' With 5th Straight Defeat

CHICAGO -- Give Miami a road map. Give the Heat a compass. If you really want to splurge, how about a GPS? "We've lost our way right now,'' said Heat coach Erik Spoelstra. Indeed Miami has. The team is somewhere in the middle of Siberia without a Coleman stone. Wait a minute. The team is the Heat. Make that in the...

Pat Riley, Erik Spoelstra Take Pay Cuts To Save Heat Jobs

Seemingly every NBA franchise is cinching its garter these days. The Bobcats skipped Summer League. The Grizzlies have discarded their dedicated amateur scouting corps. The Kings left a benchwarmer (Kenny Thomas) at home on road trips last season to save on accommodations, and the team's owners downgraded themselves to...

Heat-Hawks: Where Blowouts Happen

MIAMI -- It's not like only one team has shown up for this playoff series, which is what happened with the Cavs and the Detroit Deadbeats. It's just that these two don't show up at the same time.Not to rain on anyone's playoff parade, but it's hard to imagine a Game 7 with any less suspense than what we'll see Sunday when...

Josh Smith Still Taunting Heat

MIAMI -- There were apologies, no I-shouldn't-have-done it tone in his voice Friday morning when Hawks forward Josh Smith was asked again about his late-game showboating Wednesday that clearly riled the Miami Heat. In a series that has grown both increasingly physical and combative, Smith was happy to fuel the fire before...

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05/29/12 Bosh's Return Still Uncertain Source: ABC - KRCR 7 - Redding CA The Heat's third round of the playoffs picked up where the second left off, with questions about the potential availability of sidelined power forward Chris Bosh. Bosh went down in the first half of the first game of the second round against the Indiana Pacers with a lower abdominal strain.
05/27/12 Chris Bosh Injury: How Miami Heat's Big 2 Will Survive... Source: Bleacher Report The Miami Heat may have felt as though they had something to prove all season long, but lately Erik Spoelstra's club has proven far more than it ever planned.
05/26/12 NBA fines Spoelstra $25,000 for comments Source: CBS - WRAL 5 - Raleigh NC The NBA fined Miami coach Erik Spoelstra $25,000 on Friday for "critical public comments" about officiating in the Eastern Conference series with Indiana.
05/26/12 Boston's Avery Bradley is through for playoffs | NBA Source: The Seattle Times - Seattle WA Boston Celtics guard Avery Bradley is done for the season.
05/25/12 Heat must have some sort of offense beyond LeBron, Wade Source: Sporting News That's the percentage of the Miami Heat's points scored by Dwyane Wade and LeBron James in the conference semifinals series against the Indiana Pacers, and it's not exactly a comfortable place for the team to be.