Miami Heat Rumors & News

San Antonio Express-News "The Spurs are one victory away from their fifth NBA championship after punishing the Heat in Game 5 of the NBA Finals Sunday at the AT&T Center. The series shifts to Miami for Game 6, where the Heat will attempt to become only the eighth team in NBA history to recover from a 3-2 deficit in the..." June 17

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel "The clock already is ticking. Within two weeks the decisions have to be made. Yes, there are greater priorities for the Miami Heat at the moment, namely these NBA Finals against the San Antonio Spurs, which continued with Sunday's Game 5 at the AT&T Center. But by June 30, there will have to..." June 17

Fox Sports Florida "Chris Bosh is happy he doesn’t have to guard Chris Bosh. Or LeBron James. Or Dwyane Wade. “I wouldn’t want to play us,’’ Bosh said of the Miami Heat’s Big Three. “I’m glad I don’t have to play us.’’ When their trio of stars is on, the Heat are nearly unbeatable. That certainly was the..." June 16

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel "Much was made of Heat guard Dwyane Wade wearing hot packs on his legs when he sat on the bench during Game 4 of the NBA Finals. On Friday, Wade downplayed it and said it was more about resting for shorter periods. It kept his sore right knee from stiffening on the sideline. "It wasn't..." June 16

CSN New England "Earlier in The Finals, Miami's Mike Miller was among the players who mingled around the court during media sessions while others held court behind a podium. Miller was part of the podium posse on Saturday, yet another indication of his growing influence on The Finals. He was inserted into..." June 16

Pro Basketball Talk "The lack of job security for head coaches in the NBA has seemed to reach an all-time high level of silliness this year, and the two who are still playing for a championship believe that the consistency shown by their respective organizations is a big reason why they’re still competing at the..." June 15

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel "Change tends to be a gradual process for the Miami Heat, calculated, rarely rushed, seldom spontaneous. Based on the magnitude of Thursday's Game 4 rout of the San Antonio Spurs, as well as Friday's tone of coach Erik Spoelstra in the wake of that 109-93 romp, expect the Heat's new lineup to be..." June 15

Yahoo! Sports "The NBA announced Friday afternoon that it has fined Miami Heat center Chris Bosh $5,000 for violating the league's anti-flopping policy during Game 4 of the 2013 NBA Finals on Thursday. Well, duh. Bosh is the eighth player to receive a flopping fine this postseason. He joins Derek Fisher,..." June 14

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel "Now, this was more like it. Dwyane Wade was scoring. So was LeBron James. And even Chris Bosh got into the act on occasion. Call it the return of the Big Three. The Heat got productive games from all three All-Stars to defeat the San Antonio Spurs 109-93 Thursday in Game 4 of the NBA..." June 14

ESPN.com "Looking to jump-start a sluggish offense, Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra is considering changing his starting lineup for Game 4 of the NBA Finals and inserting the hot-shooting Mike Miller, sources said Thursday. Miller is 10-of-11 shooting on 3-pointers in the Finals thus far and is shooting..." June 13

ESPN.com "Looking to jump-start a sluggish offense, Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra is changing his starting lineup for Game 4 of the NBA Finals and inserting the hot-shooting Mike Miller. Miller is 10-of-11 shooting on 3-pointers in the Finals thus far and is shooting 50 percent from behind the arc in..." June 13

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel "Chris Bosh appreciates that he could be the fall guy, even if he's not the fail guy. But the Miami Heat center said he has come to grips with his name being the one most frequently mentioned as the most expendable of the team's Big Three. As the Heat prepared for Thursday's Game 4 of the..." June 13

Fox Sports Florida "Pardon Tracy McGrady if he sometimes forgets to use “we’’ when talking about the San Antonio Spurs. “Give San Antonio some credit of defending (LeBron James),’’ McGrady said Wednesday as if he were talking about some team in the league other than his own. But McGrady actually is a member..." June 13

ESPN.com "From my time as an assistant coach at Ohio State, I had the opportunity to evaluate LeBron James at St. Vincent/St. Mary High School in nearby Akron. Watching him for his first two seasons in high school and over the summers, it was obvious he was headed for stardom. In the fall of his junior..." June 13

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel "A razor-thin San Antonio Spurs victory. Followed by a Miami Heat blowout victory. Followed by an even-bigger Spurs rout. "It's like bipolar basketball at times," Heat center Chris Bosh said Wednesday of this NBA Finals series that turns to its Game 4 chapter Thursday at the AT&T Center, with..." June 13

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel "So who says Miami Heat forward LeBron James needs to start playing more like Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant and less like Magic Johnson? That would be Johnson, himself. "I want him to be more like Kobe or Michael than like me," Johnson said with a laugh during a Wednesday NBA Finals conference..." June 13

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel "Chris Bosh has decided to put his 12,368-square-foot home on Miami Beach's North Bay Road on the market, the Miami Heat center on Wednesday told the Sun Sentinel. Bosh, however, stressed the decision was made with his family in mind, with his wife, Adrienne, expecting the couple's second child,..." June 13

CBSSports.com "LeBron James wasn't holding back in his media availability Wednesday about his individual performance the previous night in Game 3. "I played like shit," he said. LeBron went 7-21 for just 15 points in Game 3, and worst of all, his Heat got pummeled by 36 as the Spurs took a 2-1 series lead...." June 12

USA Today "LeBron James delivered the message multiple times in the sullen and stunned losing locker room. "I've got to be better," James said after the San Antonio Spurs crushed the Miami Heat 113-77 in Game 3 on Tuesday. He said it no less than five times during a six-minute postgame interview at his..." June 12

USA Today "Gearing up for the 2014 FIBA World Cup in Spain, USA Basketball selected a wide-ranging mix of experience, youth, size, speed and shooters for its 27-man roster that will train in July 22-25 in Las Vegas. The past two NBA rookies of the year — guards Kyrie Irving of the Cleveland Cavaliers and..." June 12

San Antonio Express-News "Hard to imagine, but Game 3 of the Finals was once tied at 44-all. That was before a 29-8 run blew the doors off, from which point the Spurs continued to pour it on…and on, and on, until they’d taken a 2-1 series lead with one of the most thoroughly dominant postseason performances in franchise..." June 12

ESPN.com "Could LeBron James become the first player in history to average a triple-double in the Finals? It’s more than just a historical question; it also is a central factor in how this series might end up playing out. Because the San Antonio Spurs may be just fine with it -- in fact, it might be an..." June 11

Miami Herald "Somebody brought Heat fans the heads of Eva Longoria for Sunday’s Game 2 of the NBA Finals. Then, security collected those heads after a few minutes. The reason for Longoria’s head on a stick? A potential distraction for San Antonio star point guard and Longoria ex-husband Tony Parker when he..." June 11

ESPN.com "The NBA will allow advertising on the court for the first time next season. The league sent a memo to its teams saying they will be permitted to sell space on what is referred to as the apron. The space covers the out-of-bounds area on the sideline between the baselines and the coaches' box..." June 11

Miami Herald "Coach Erik Spoelstra has been disinclined to criticize Chris Bosh publicly for his work on the boards, even though he entered Game 2 with the worst playoff rebounding numbers of his career. But privately, the Heat has been pushing Bosh for more in this area. Bosh responded Sunday night with..." June 10

Charlotte Observer "I think the Charlotte Bobcats trading for Miami Heat big man Chris Bosh would turn out like when the Carolina Panthers acquired defensive lineman Sean Gilbert. Gilbert played OK as a Panther. But the trouble the Panthers went to in acquiring him – sending two first-round picks to the Washington..." June 10

Fox Sports Florida "The Miami Heat went after Chauncey Billups before last season but weren’t able to get him. They soon will have another chance. The veteran point guard will become a free agent July 1. He said he then will consider the Heat. “Of course, I would have interest in Miami, of course,’’ Billups..." June 10

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel "The box score offered no delineation about a Big Three or a Chosen One. The shots were evenly distributed, as were the points. As, now, are the victories in this series. And after this Sunday night performance at AmericanAirlines Arena, it could be argued the Heat lead 1-1. Because..." June 10

Fox Sports Florida "It all started in 2000 at Route 66 Tattoo in Albuquerque, N.M. Chris Andersen had grown up in tiny Iola, Texas, the son of Linda Holubec. She rode a Harley-Davidson and had a number of tattoos. When Andersen was in high school in the late 1990s, Holubec had gotten flowers, vines and..." June 09

CBSSports.com "The Charlotte Bobcats are deep into their rebuilding process right now. After having the worst season in NBA history in 2011-12, they made some progress in 2012-13 with 21 wins. Their core currently includes 19-year old Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (second pick in the 2012 draft), 23-year old Kemba..." June 09

USA Today "Chris "Birdman" Andersen has never been on an NBA championship winning team. And until a few months ago, he probably thought he might never get that chance. Five months ago, Andersen was an unrestricted free agent, bouncing back and forth between his homes in Texas and Colorado and wondering if..." June 09

Washington Post "Dwyane Wade paused as he answered a question and looked back over his shoulder, somewhat befuddled after a loud scream emanated from behind the NBA Finals banner hanging as the backdrop. Wade quickly surmised the source of the commotion, which was revealed when LeBron James walked up the stairs to..." June 09

CBSSports.com "Sometimes it's difficult to suss out in media availabilities at the NBA Finals how much of the responses are dictated by where a team's head is, or by the storylines being driven by the media. But you try to look at where the conversations organically come from, and before Game 2 of the NBA Finals..." June 09

New York Daily News "The Finals showdown was supposed to be all about LeBron James and Tim Duncan, the best player of this era against the best player of the last decade. Then Tony Parker executed his last-second Globetrotter dribbling-act-and-circus shot to beat the shot clock and win Game 1, crashing the 2013..." June 09

New York Post "Chris Andersen became the bird who flew away for the Knicks. In mid-January, the Knicks were exploring big-man options because of fears Rasheed Wallace’s foot injury would not heal. They contacted Andersen’s agent, as the so-called “Birdman’’ was good friends with J.R. Smith, had played with..." June 09

San Antonio Express-News "Miami center Chris Bosh’s recent slump appears to have affected his offensive confidence and production. Bosh’s struggles have seen his scoring dip from 16.6 points per game in the regular season to 12.3 points per game in the playoffs. Bosh is shooting 44.9 percent from the field in the..." June 08

Fox Sports Florida "A decade ago, a pair of buddies at the University of Florida had NBA dreams NBA officials, though, weren't dreaming much about them. Forward Udonis Haslem wasn’t even taken in the 2002 draft. He had to play in France in 2002-03. Forward Matt Bonner, a year behind Haslem at Florida, was..." June 08

SI.com "Everything changed when Tony Parker made his daredevil, Globetrotteresque bank shot to finish the Spurs' win in Game 1. Had Parker held onto the ball for one tenth of a second longer, then maybe the pressure would be on San Antonio now. If his leaning bank shot had hopped off the rim instead of..." June 08

Pro Basketball Talk "It is one of the key images out of Game 1 of the NBA Finals — the Heat are down four late, LeBron James drives into the paint and rather than shoot over the help defender he dishes back to a wide open Chris Bosh at the three point line. The Spurs don’t close at all, basically giving him the shot...." June 08

USA Today "As his time winds down with the Miami Heat, forward Shane Battier has started n to think about his future. He has one year and $3,270,000 left on his contract. After his current deal expires, he would have played 13 seasons. And, there's a strong possibility the 34-year-old will retire from the..." June 08

Miami Herald "Late in Miami’s game against San Antonio on Thursday night, Chris Bosh found himself all alone deep in the corner with the Heat down four points. Even though he missed the first three three-pointers he took in the game, Bosh fired away. He didn’t make it. It’s a shot he will take again. “He..." June 08

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel "Amid this third consecutive trip to the NBA Finals, and with increasingly punitive salary-cap and luxury-tax penalties about to kick in from the new collective-bargaining agreement, the question becomes how the Miami Heat will be able to sustain their pipeline of supporting talent. The answer?..." June 08

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel "The Chris Bosh bashers came out of the woodwork after he went 0-for-4 from 3-point territory, including a critical wide-open miss from the wing with a minute left that would've sliced the Spurs' lead to one point in what became a 92-88 Game 1 loss Thursday. That's why the bulk of Friday..." June 07

CSN New England "Much like the heavy rainfall that pounded the American Airlines Arena prior to San Antonio's 92-88 win over Miami on Thursday, Spurs forward Kawhi Leonard was drowned with praise for the job he did defensively on LeBron James. That is, by everyone except Leonard. James didn't score a lot,..." June 07

Fox Sports Florida "LeBron James is carrying the weight of an entire franchise on his back, but nobody seems to care if he’s getting tired. Not even those on his team. A weary James asked to take a breather for the first three minutes of the fourth quarter in Thursday’s Game 1 of the NBA Finals. When he came..." June 07

SportingNews.com "When it comes to bum knees, Tracy McGrady knows a little bit about what Heat star Dwyane Wade is going through. Wade has been coping with an injured right knee throughout the playoffs, and though he got off to a fast start in Game 1 (13 points, 5-for-8 shooting in the first half), he wound up with..." June 07

San Antonio Express-News "It was a classic Spurs victory — doing whatever they could to survive multiple Heat runs before pulling away late in the din of American Airlines Arena to steal Game 1 of the NBA Finals. The usual suspects carried the load, with Tim Duncan drawing and converting a pair of key free throws while..." June 07

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel "The one phone call that's telling, the one greeting that matters, the one word that a few years later puts these NBA Finals into proper context came just a few days after the Heat signed LeBron James. This was in July, 2010. San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich phoned Heat President Pat Riley...." June 06