In what could be one of the biggest storyline games of the season, the Miami Heat will welcome Jimmy Butler’s return to South Beach to host his Golden State Warriors. Miami is coming into the matchup off a bounce back win on Monday and an 8-6 record overall. The Warriors will be playing on the […]
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After Bam Adebayo went down with a toe injury a few weeks ago, the Miami Heat needed instant answers with their center position. Unfortunately, their clear lack of big man depth is something that Pat Riley and the front office did not ultimately address heading into the 2025-26 season. Adebayo and Kel’el Ware are the […]
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As the Miami Heat have adjusted their offense, opponents have adjusted to theirs. Through the first two weeks of the season, the Heat had one of the NBA’s most potent offenses, utilizing this new fast-paced, free-flowing offense. But they’re now seeing zone as much as any team in the NBA because of how much it […]
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While we are just 14 games into the 2025-26 season, it’s a big one for Miami Heat guard Dru Smith Smith has only played more than 14 games in a single season just once — yes, once — since he entered the league in 2022-23. Their middle-of-the-week showdown against Golden State will presumably be his […]
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Just weeks into the 2025-26 NBA season, what Norman Powell has provided in his very short Miami Heat tenure has been a breath of fresh air. The 32-year-old was acquired by the Heat last July as an additive piece to help a dormant Heat offense climb out of a well. Through the early part of […]
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First Half: The shorthanded Heat and Knicks both struggled to score early, going scoreless for the first minute. New York would get it together early to go up six, while the Heat offense looked anemic briefly. Thankfully, Powell and the Heat picked up the pace and found their rhythm to take the lead off a […]
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Through 13 games, the Miami Heat offense has been a top-12 unit with five 130-point performances, including in Friday’s road loss to the New York Knicks. And they’ve done it without star guard Tyler Herro, arguably their best offensive player who’s coming off a career season. Miami was forced to tweak its offense in the […]
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The Miami Heat have hit their first bit of adversity this season, coming off two straight losses while the team patiently awaits the returns from their All-Star duo of Bam Adebayo and Tyler Herro. Although they are making progress, the Heat need to prepare for a little while longer without them. Their depth needs to […]
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The Miami Heat are currently operating without two of their best players in Bam Adebayo (toe) and Tyler Herro (foot). Herro hasn’t appeared in a game all season, while Adebayo has missed each of the last five games. Adebayo’s expected to return sooner, but both offered injury updates after Sunday’s practice. “It felt great being […]
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The Dallas Mavericks fired general manager Nico Harrison this week, less than 10 months after the longtime executive made one of the most inconceivable trades in NBA History. That isn’t going to immediately fix the product on the court. The Mavericks’ roster, saturated with bigs and deprived of guards, is very unbalanced around Cooper Flagg, […]
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Despite all of the encouraging performances leaguewide from this year’s rookie class, one player who still hasn’t seen the hardwood through the first month is Miami Heat guard Kasparas Jakucionis. Jakucionis, selected No. 20 overall in last June’s draft, missed the team’s seven games with a groin injury. But head coach Erik Spoelstra still hasn’t […]
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Heading into the season with two legitimate big men on their roster — plus undrafted free-agent Vladimir Goldin, on a two-way contract — the Miami Heat were bereft of depth behind Bam Adebayo. With Kel’el Ware’s slow start to the season and Adebayo’s recent toe injury, they’ve felt the repercussions pretty quickly, especially on the […]
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The Miami Heat could not overcome more struggles on the defensive glass, losing 140-132 to the Jalen Brunson-less New York Knicks Friday evening inside Madison Square Garden. Outside of nine missed free throws, Miami didn’t have any problem offensively. They shot 46.3 percent from the floor and drained 19 3-pointers, including multiple from Norman Powell […]
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You glance at the top of the leaderboard, and it still doesn’t quite make sense. The Miami Heat lead the NBA in … scoring?! Even without perhaps their best offensive player and their three-time All-Star (for one-third of it)?! Correct. And the fact is that they are off to one of the best 12-game scoring […]
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The Miami Heat are traveling to the Big Apple on Friday for an Emirates NBA Cup matchup versus the New York Knicks. The Heat and Knicks are in the same East Group C for placement in the upcoming In-Season Tournament. Miami currently leads those group standings as the number one seed with a 1-0 record […]
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Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra is a surefire Hall of Famer one of the most accomplished NBA coaches to ever grace this earth. However, whether you want to point to the Miami Heat’s dominant 66-win season in 2012-13, their miraculous 30-11 second-half surge in 2016-17 or their unexpected 53-win season — as the No. […]
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On Wednesday, the Miami Heat — missing their two All-Stars in Bam Adebayo and Tyler Herro — were facing the Cleveland Cavaliers without three All-Stars (Donovan Mitchell, Darius Garland, Evan Mobley). Friday’s matchup between the Heat and New York Knicks — an Emirates Cup group stage affair — will feature another without an All-Star. Knicks […]
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Even though the Cleveland Cavaliers were missing three All-Stars (to the Miami Heat’s two), they powered through the Heat late and secured a 130-116 win on Wednesday. Miami played its worst stretch of basketball over the final 16 minutes, scoring just 24 points while shooting just 31.0 percent from the floor. As a result, Cleveland […]
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It was a tale of two halves for the Miami Heat. The shorthanded Cleveland Cavaliers, missing three of their All-Stars, powered past the Heat 130-116, shaking off a 14-point third quarter deficit. It’s easy to forget that Miami was also without Tyler Herro and Bam Adebayo, missing his fourth-straight game. But if there was any […]
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It was a tale of two halves for the Miami Heat. The shorthanded Cleveland Cavaliers, missing three of their All-Stars, powered past the Heat 130-116, shaking off a 14-point third quarter deficit. It’s easy to forget that Miami was also without Tyler Herro and Bam Adebayo, missing his third-straight game. But if there was any […]
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At the time of the acquisition, we viewed the Norman Powell three-team trade as a win for the Miami Heat, who only had to sacrifice Kyle Anderson and Kevin Love, two players who were viewed as fringe rotation players (at best). Through 11 games, it’s paid dividends. The Heat couldn’t have asked for a better […]
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The Miami Heat have been publicly high on Nikola Jovic and his potential ever since the European forward was drafted back in 2022. It was reported that Jovic was kept off limits in summer trade talks to acquire Kevin Durant, which ultimately led to the Phoenix Suns doing business elsewhere. And then the Heat doubled […]
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