A Miami Heat Blog
Update (12/15/16): The Houston Rockets apparently never actually signed Donatas Motiejunas. But whether they did or did not sign him is irrelevant. In both cases, the Rockets could have conditioned the contract (in a case where they didn’t sign him, as a condition …
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Update (10/22/16): The Heat has chosen to waive Briante Weber and Beno Udrih, and keep Rodney McGruder. The Heat’s backup point guard duties effectively therefore fall to Tyler Johnson. The final 15-player roster is as follows: Goran Dragic, Tyler Johnson, Josh Richardson, Wayne …
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Pat Riley, in a meeting with reporters, said that Chris Bosh’s career with the Miami Heat “is probably over” and that the team is “not working toward his return.” Bosh, an 11-time All-Star, failed his preseason physical last week. The Heat had been …
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Pat Riley wasn’t expecting to use the Miami Heat’s $2.898 million mid-level exception for room teams this summer. “As far as the $2.9 million room exception, we’re going to hold on to that,” Riley said on July 16. “I don’t think we’re …
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Two months ago, the Oklahoma City Thunder were positioned to perhaps consider themselves the best team in the NBA. They had pushed the defending champion and all-time regular season winning percentage record-holding Golden State Warriors to brink of elimination in the Western …
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Heading into the 2016-17 NBA season, extensions for veteran players had all but vanished for several years — the result of changes to the league’s Collective Bargaining Agreement that make it more beneficial for players to finish out their existing contracts and …
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The following post attempts to parse through the eloquent words of Pat Riley, delivered at his press conference on Saturday, to arrive at their true meaning. Things are not always necessarily what they seem. During a press conference on Saturday to discuss the state …
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The Miami Heat initiated its post-Dwyane Wade transition by completing a flurry of moves in rapid-fire succession on Sunday, the timing of which dictated by the man potentially set to replace him and the execution of which pursued with a singular goal …
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It is still impossible to believe. After 13 seasons, the best and most important player in the Miami Heat’s 28-year history is gone. Dwyane Wade is headed to the Chicago Bulls. How could it be that the team’s franchise icon could leave …
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The NBA’s salary cap projection for the 2017-18 season has dropped from $107 million to $102 million, according to a league memo distributed by the league to its member teams. The luxury tax projection has dropped in turn, from $127 million to …
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