Miami Heat facing major overhaul this offseason

Whether they win or lose the NBA Finals, the Miami Heat will probably be adding a lot of new faces to their 2014-3015 roster.

Of course the biggest question facing the Heat is will LeBron James stay or leave for a chance to win more titles with another talented team that is not only on the of cusp of a championship but one that also has the money to pay him a huge contract?

Is Dwyane Wade still a top ten player?

Thunder forward Kevin Durant was quoted in an interview saying that Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade should be replaced in Sport’s Illustrated’s top ten list of NBA players.

While Durant’s comments sparked a little back and forth between he and Wade on Twitter, Durant raised a viable question. Is Wade still a top ten player?

Miami Heat Should Trade Chris Bosh

Last postseason, Miami Heat power forward Chris Bosh had a reason for being invisible; he was injured.

Bosh went down with an abdominal strain in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Semi-Finals during last year’s playoffs forcing him to miss nine games. He wasn’t fully healthy when he returned but he still put up better numbers than he is putting up now.

Spurs’ Game Plan to Win Finals: Crowd LeBron

San Antonio Spurs’ head coach Gregg Popovich isn’t the longest tenured coach in the league by accident.

Sure it helps having Tim Duncan roaming the paint for the past 16 years but Popovich is probably the best at attacking an opposing team’s weakness.

Is LeBron Returning to Cleveland? Who Cares??!!!

 

Every time something significant happens for the Cleveland Cavaliers these days some media idiot wants to use it as an excuse to speculate on LeBron James eventual return to the team that drafted him.

The Cavaliers won the first overall pick in the draft a couple of years ago and drafted point guard Kyrie Irving. According to the media, LeBron is going to go back eventually to play with him.

Key injuries shape Eastern Conference playoff race

The Miami Heat have claimed the number one spot in the Eastern Conference playoffs by amassing an insurmountable lead going into the final stretch of the regular season. The Heat have played well this season but would they still be in the same position had it not been for a couple of key injuries suffered by some of their conference foes?

The Chicago Bulls led by Derrick Rose have held the Eastern Conference’s best record for the past two seasons but Rose hasn’t played a single game this season. Without Rose, the Bulls are currently sitting in fifth place in the conference standings.

LeBron to Chuck: “Shut up!”

We all know that NBA players have thin skin and LeBron James proved it with his comment after the Miami Heat beat the Atlanta Hawks on Monday.

When asked about his teammate Dwyane Wade’s 11-of-13 shooting performance after the game, James replied that Wade’s performance meant that TNT analyst Charles Barkley should “shut up.”

Spurs $250k fine was about TV ratings

NBA commissioner David Stern knows that the San Antonio Spurs are an old team. He also knows that head coach Gregg Popovich will rest his aging starters from time to time.

Stern even admitted as much by saying that he has no problem with teams resting their starters. But when it comes to the Spurs playing in a nationally televised game, he expects all the stars to be playing.

Will we finally get a Kobe versus LeBron Finals matchup?

Back in the 2008-2009 season, Nike unleashed a brilliant marketing campaign using puppets to represent the Los Angeles Lakers’ Kobe Bryant and Cleveland Cavaliers’ star forward LeBron James.

Bryant and James were the two most dominant and most popular players in the league at that time, so Nike was rooting for a Cavaliers versus Lakers matchup in the 2009 NBA Finals. Unfortunately, James and the Cavaliers couldn’t get by the Orlando Magic in the Eastern Conference Finals in order to make this dream marketing matchup a reality.

LeBron remembers Lithuanians 2004 upset of Team USA

LeBron James remembers. Most people who have seen James play, marvel at his mind-boggling athletic prowess but one of the things that many people don’t know about James is he has an almost photographic memory.

It’s one of the reasons why James basketball IQ is so high. James’ memory of games and plays and situations is one of the reasons he can play at such a high level on such a consistent basis.

NBA Rivalries: Knicks’ Carmelo Anthony versus Heat’s LeBron James

The 2003 NBA Draft was celebrated as one of the best drafts the NBA had seen in a long time even before any players were drafted. That’s because the two biggest names in that draft were current New York Knick Carmelo Anthony and current Miami Heat forward LeBron James.

These two small forwards drafted at the top of the 2003 Draft had different games but both possessed all-world ability. This was supposed to be the second coming of the Bird-Magic rivalry that put the NBA on the map back in the early ‘80s.

Miami Heat’s Chris Bosh should continue to come off the bench

Chris Bosh played a major role in the Miami Heat's Game 7 victory over the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference Finals. After scoring a total of 16 points in Games 5 and 6 combined, Bosh torched the Celtics with 19 points hitting eight of his 10 shots from the field in that decisive Game 7. 

The Heat are going to need more performances like that from Bosh if they want to win four games against the Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA Finals. And they are going to need to continue to bring him off the bench.

Dream matchup: Heat's LeBron James versus Thunder's Kevin Durant

The NBA couldn't have asked for a better scenario than to have the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Miami Heat meet up in the NBA Finals. Kevin Durant versus LeBron James and OKC's big three versus Miami's big three are the matchups that everyone will be dying to watch.

And there's no denying that how Durant and James play each other will be a big factor in deciding the outcome of this series as well as how Russell Westbrook matches up against Dwyane Wade and which player out of Chris Bosh and James Harden has a bigger impact off the bench. But while those matchups will be important, the outcome of this series could hinge even more on how the role players perform.

Could Texas teams be LeBron James’ kryptonite?

Two NBA Finals appearances for Lebron James. Two losses. What is the common thread linking both of these losses together? Both teams were from Texas.

James joined the Miami Heat during the 2010-2011 season with one goal in mind and that was to win the championship that had eluded him up to that point in his career.

Pacers’ Danny Granger awoke Miami’s sleeping giant: LeBron James

It’s not like Miami Heat forward LeBron James wasn’t putting up solid statistics against the Indiana Pacers in this series. James averaged 25 points and eight boards in Games 2 and 3 but the Pacers were still able to defeat the Heat who seemed out of rhythm offensively.

Most of Miami’s offensive problems could be traced back to losing forward Chris Bosh to a strained abdomen in Game 1 but Pacers’ forward Danny Granger must have felt that his team’s Game 1 loss was due to them not coming out with enough attitude in that first game.

3 reasons why the Miami Heat won’t win a title under Spoelstra

Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra may be a top-ten coach in the NBA but that says a lot more about the lousy coaches in the league today than it does about his overall coaching skills.

By my count there are at least nine coaches in the league better than Spoelstra and one of them, Orlando Magic head coach and former Heat coach Stan Van Gundy, will receive his walking papers any day now.

LeBron James, Miami Heat send a message

The Miami Heat have charged full blast into the playoffs and woe to anyone willing to stand in their path. The New York Knicks got to see firsthand as the Heat charged all over them in a 100-67 victory in their Game 1 matchup in Miami on Saturday.

LeBron James scored 32 points in only three quarters of play but the key to this monstrous win had to be Miami’s stifling defense. Miami limited Carmelo Anthony to just 11 points and three of fifteen shooting from the field.

Miami Heat’s road woes spell trouble for title hopes

Pat Riley is a pretty good judge of talent and he’s a very patient person. He has been trying his best to let head coach Erik Spoelstra do things his way but if things don’t change soon then the Miami Heat will end the season the same way they ended the last one; watching another team raise its championship banners.

Steve Nash wants to play with LeBron in Miami

Phoenix Suns’ point guard Steve Nash will be a free agent this offseason and he has already started to ponder where he may want to play next year; for the Miami Heat.

LeBron James forever haunted by ‘Decision’

I have a question for everyone who stays in the 49 states not named Ohio; who really gave a crap about the Cleveland Cavaliers before Lebron James got there?