The Miami Heat may have LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, but without its cast of role players, the Heat surely wouldn't stand as the overwhelming favorites to repeat as champions in roughly a month. The “other guys” on Miami's roster have CHICAGO — LeBron James came on strong down the stretch to finish [...]

She flipped Joakim Noah the bird. She may have murdered her fourth husband. She is generally terrifying. She is the subject of our latest Photoshop contest. Greg Cote at The Miami Herald says that Monday night's Bulls victory in the first game of the second-round series was the aberration. “This was not,” he writes. “This [...]

As they've done all year, the Heat kept it closer than expected through the first three quarters. But the fourth-quarter death blow we usually see from Miami never came, the Bulls hit some timely shots, and now a series that no Down 1-0 in its second-round series to the Bulls, the Heat said its offensive [...]

Deep down you sensed Heat players really wanted the Lakers' record. But now that the quest is over, Miami will merely get back to focusing on playing better basketball, and that's not good news for the rest of the NBA as it pushes towards its title NEW ORLEANS — Miami Heat president Pat Riley on [...]

The lawsuit brought on by Miami attorney Larry McGuinness against the San Antonio Spurs organization was dismissed early morning on Friday. Man, it would be a bummer if we didn't get a Celtics-Heat series this spring. And, unfortunately, that's no slam dunk. The Celtics are trending toward the sixth or seventh seed in the Eastern [...]

And even I was rooting for Miami on Wednesday night. It felt icky, it felt weird, it felt foreign … but it had to be done. I wanted that Spurs-Heat game. Only afterward did I realize how dreadful it was to shift to the dark side and root for the Miami The Miami heat failed [...]

Hall of Famer Jerry West, one of the anchors of the Los Angeles Lakers' 1971-72 team and now a front-office consultant to the Golden State Warriors, told ESPN.com on Wednesday night that he had started to believe the Heat, at the very least, would No record for LeBron James and the Miami Heat, either. The [...]

The Miami heat failed to win a game for the first time since a February 1 loss against the Pacers. The next Sunday, Super Bowl Sunday, the Heat beat the Toronto Raptors 100-85 and kept on winning until tonight. Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade, left, forward LeBron James, center, and Chicago Bulls forward Luol Deng [...]

The Heat's season anniversary logo has a big '25' on it and so, now, does the team's winning streak. “Crazy,” as LeBron James put it well after the latest victory Friday night. “Man, that's crazy.” This remarkable run of uninterrupted W's doesn't come LeBron nails the game-winner with 12 seconds left. When we initially spoke [...]

Hi-res-160070606_crop_650x440. Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images. It wasn't pretty, but the Miami Heat survived yet another bottom feeder by defeating the Detroit Pistons, 103-89. Miami has now won 25 consecutive games and stands at 54-14 on the season. The Miami Heat's winning streak has reached 25. Miami again fell behind early, trailing by as many as 11 [...]