And Now They Know: It's Heat vs. Nets
For the last week, the Miami Heat were waiting and watching, resting and recovering.
For the last week, the Miami Heat were waiting and watching, resting and recovering.
The Miami Heat will get back to work Sunday in anticipation of taking on either the Raptors or Nets in round two of the NBA play offs. Off since finishing off their first-round sweep of Charlotte, the Heat will open their next postseason series at home on Tuesday.
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As much as the rest of us are savoring these NBA playoffs, with all the buzzer beaters and Game 7s and overtime drama, the view is even better for LeBron James and his teammates.
Miami Heat players are getting plenty of rest before suiting up once again for round 2 of the NBA playoffs, thanks to a first-round sweep of the Charlotte Bobcats. The Heat is the only team to sweep round-one in the postseason.
The bombshell exploded Saturday when the Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling said racist comments. Seventy-two hours later, Sterling was without a team and faces a $2.5 million fine thanks to Commissioner Adam Silver.
Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has been banned from the NBA. On Tuesday, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced that they had concluded their investigation and found it was Sterling's voice on a recording making racist comments.
Miami Heat players and others around the NBA are reacting to the lifetime ban handed down to Clippers owner Donald Sterling on Tuesday.
Dwyane Wade will have a chance to rest those sore knees and that tight hamstring. And LeBron James can ice up his thigh contusion. The Miami Heat earned a little extra rest and relaxation after completing a four-game sweep of the Charlotte Bobcats with a 109-98 victory Monday night.
LeBron James scored 31 points, and the Miami Heat completed a first-round sweep of the Charlotte Bobcats with a 109-98 victory Monday night.
Coach Steve Clifford said if the Charlotte Bobcats hope to avoid a first-round sweep by the Miami Heat and earn their first postseason win in franchise history, they're going to need someone other than Al Jefferson and Kemba Walker to come through on offense.
Miami Heat Forward Lebron James has asked the new NBA Commissioner to take aggressive measures against Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling after an audio recording surfaced of a man identified as Sterling telling his girlfriend not to bring black people to games.
LeBron James had 30 points and 10 rebounds, and the Miami Heat defeated the Charlotte Bobcats 98-85 Saturday night to take a 3-0 lead in the Eastern Conference first round series.
The Charlotte Bobcats have likely earned some respect around the NBA after hanging tough with the two-time defending champion Miami Heat.
Heat coach Erik Spoelstra says his team isn't happy that a hard foul against LeBron James in Game 2 against Charlotte wasn't even reviewed by referees, the latest complaint Miami has levied in how much abuse its star takes during games.
LeBron James scored 32 points and added eight assists, Chris Bosh scored 20 points and the Miami Heat held on to beat the Charlotte Bobcats 101-97 on Wednesday night to take a 2-0 lead in the teams' Eastern Conference first-round series.
LeBron James grabbed a basketball off a rack as he left the practice court Tuesday, then turned and took a 40-footer without so much as jumping. Swish. Seems like James and the Heat aren't worried about much right now. Their opponents in this Eastern Conference first-round series can't feel the same.
LeBron James says Game 1 of a series is a feeling-out game, and Game 2 is where improvement happens.
Heat fans can expect to see prices rise for each home game, beginning with Game 2 Wednesday night. The average price of Miami Heat tickets for remaining home games in the first round against the Bobcats will be $275.56.
Dwyane Wade is not planning on missing any more games this season, and that means life on the Miami Heat equipment room staff is going to get considerably more demanding.
LeBron James scored 27 points, Dwyane Wade added 23 and the Miami Heat used a late charge to beat the Charlotte Bobcats 99-88 on Sunday in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference first-round series.
If the Miami Heat are going to watch their season and reign atop the NBA end at the hands of the Charlotte Bobcats, then fates of the franchises will have to change in a hurry.
If the Miami Heat are going to watch their season and reign atop the NBA end at the hands of the Charlotte Bobcats, then fates of the franchises will have to change in a hurry.
Even as the two-time defending NBA champions, the Miami Heat say they aren't overlooking any team heading into the playoffs.
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City officials shared clips of boats slammed into homes and a residence burning amid the floodwaters as they conducted water rescue operations.
Strong winds from Hurricane Helene cut power to more than 1 million homes and businesses across Florida, according to the tracking site poweroutage.us.
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The Marion County Sheriff's deputy told authorities that he accidentally shot and killed his girlfriend while cleaning his gun.
The American Automobile Association said this is a dangerous time of year for young drivers.
Florida insurance companies made money last year for the first time in seven years.
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The number of people traveling to Florida during the second quarter of 2023 decreased compared to a year earlier, according to estimates released Wednesday by the state's tourism-marketing agency.
Indicted NYC Mayor Eric Adams pleaded not guilty to federal bribery and campaign finance charges at his arraignment Friday.
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Hall of Fame NFL quarterback Brett Favre said during testimony before Congress Tuesday he has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Currently, there is no known cure, but a variety of medications can provide relief.
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In about a month and a half Florida voters will decide Amendment 4, which would eliminate the state's six-week abortion ban and would return Florida to what it was like before the U.S. Supreme Court struck Roe v. Wade.
Research shows that an overwhelming majority of likely Florida voters believe global warming is real.
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Martin Karp is running against Joe Geller for a Miami-Dade School Board seat.
The government has already disbursed more than 900 million free at-home COVID-19 tests, and will be reopening its free test kit portal.
Regulators say the nation's largest pharmacy benefit managers are partly to blame for the soaring cost of insulin in the U.S.
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Meat processor's marketing of industrial beef products as "climate-smart" misleads consumers, environmental group alleges.
Teva will stop selling the painkillers on September 30.
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Miami-Dade is considering four possible sites, including two that are 2 miles or less from the city of Miramar.
A viral TikTok recipe that includes melting Jolly Ranchers landed a 9-year-old in the hospital with severe burns.
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