Miami Heat

The NBA conference finals start tonight with Game 1 between the Celtics and Heat. While we can only take a guess at who might win, who the best performers will be, and who might fail to show up, the storylines for each team coming into the series are clear. …

Philadelphia 76ers guard Danny Green was carried to the locker room in Game 6 against the Miami Heat with an apparent leg injury and will not return, the team announced. Joel Embiid fell on Danny Green’s leg with nine minutes remaining in the first quarter, as he came down after scoring a layup. Green played three minutes, scoring three points. The Heat are up 3–2 on the Sixers in the series and one win away from the Eastern Conference finals.

Strus’s stunning season for Miami could signal an end to Robinson’s time in South Beach — The Miami Heat paid Duncan Robinson in the offseason, and I mean PAID him. Five years and $90 million to be exact. While Robinson played well in the regular season — 10.9 PPG, 2.6 RPG, and 1.6 APG while shooting 37.2% from deep — he has practically disappeared in the…

Jimmy Buckets & company are touched down in Philly with hopes of sending the Sixers packing in the second round for the fourth time in the last five years. What does Philadelphia have to do to force a game 7? Can the Heat replicate their game 5 performance? …

Heat v. Sixers Game 5 Recap Sixers got smoked last night. Plain and simple. I watched Jimmy Butler & Bam Adebayo grind up the entire Sixers starting line up before carefully and evenly spreading their ashes throughout a cigar wrap. …

Last night, the 76ers tied up the series after going down 0–2 in Miami while Embiid was out due to concussion protocol. There are plenty of things to take away from the last two games in Philly, but one thing that has stuck out to me the most is how…

Watching HBO’s Winning Time has forced me to reevaluate the NBA figures I love and hate from that time period. Not that the show does an exceptional job of historical accounting — it’s more that the players and coaches I love and hate are presented in a way I’ve never…

Each chapter is a letter on a trait to be a successful athlete and person — If you are curious what it takes to become an NBA player, former NBA champion and 11-time all-star Chris Bosh has written a fascinating, unconventional memoir entitled Letters to a Young Athlete. Pat Riley open’s the book with his glowing introduction in which he describes in detail how Bosh turned…