February 10
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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Miami Heat forward Chris Bosh was named to his seventh NBA All-Star team when the reserves were announced Thursday. Despite the accolade, Bosh insisted he was unaware the significance of the day. "I didn't even know it was today," Bosh said. "I'm going to be honest with you." Despite the lack of interest, Bosh said being selected was an honor he will perhaps enjoy more when his career is over. He was announced as a reserve, joining LeBron James and Dwyane Wade as the Heat's representatives."
February 3
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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Chris Bosh will have to wait a week, but he's already found himself in an All-Star debate. While, as expected, LeBron James and Dwyane Wade were announced Thursday as All-Star Game starters in the final tabulation of fan voting, the remaining member of the Miami Heat's Big Three will have to wait until next Thursday, when voting among conference coaches for reserves is announced. James and Wade are joined in the Eastern Conference starting lineup by Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard, Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose and New York Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony."
February 1
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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The tag-team approach is back. And now no one is talking about LeBron James or Dwyane Wade being better by themselves. Not when they're playing this well in tandem. Not after these past three games. With Wade back from the sprained right ankle that kept him out for six games, James and Wade have regained their common stride in victories against the New York Knicks, Chicago Bulls and New Orleans Hornets, part of the five-game winning streak the Heat carry into Wednesday's game against the Milwaukee Bucks. "It is at an all-time high right now, honestly," James said of the chemistry between the two. "It is just a chemistry that we have. Last year was a blueprint for us. It is not like"
January 31
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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With the Hornets in town, the buzz was gone. No, this was not the electric atmosphere of Sunday afternoon, when the Miami Heat made a rare regular-season statement with their decision over the Chicago Bulls. Instead, it opened as every bit the struggle of the second night of the Heat's previous two home-and-home back-to-back sets. Languid. Lethargic. Listless. With New Orleans making 10 of its first 11 shots. The difference is unlike those games against the Atlanta Hawks and Milwaukee Bucks, the Heat found their second wind and used it to blow past the West-worst Hornets 109-95 Monday night at AmericanAirlines Arena."
January 29
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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An unlikely debate surfaced when the Miami Heat won eight of the nine games they were without guard Dwyane Wade this season. Is this team really better off with Wade out of the lineup? After Wade scored 28 points in the Heat's 99-89 victory Friday against the New York Knicks, he offered his opinion on the subject. "This is a very good team with or without me," Wade said. "But better without me? I doubt that.""
January 28
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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The Miami Heat finally are whole. And for a while there Friday night, they were in a whole lot of trouble against an opponent that was living by the 3-pointer to an absurd degree. But with Dwyane Wade back, and a semblance of reality eventually returning to a New York Knicks offense that somehow was over-the-top thriving in the injury absence of Carmelo Anthony, the Heat held on for a 99-89 victory Friday night at AmericanAirlines Arena. For Wade, this was no subtle return, with 18 of his 28 points coming in the first half, a start that included a Euro-step layup, a dunk and a nifty reverse layup off a feed from LeBron James. "It's a nice welcome back for that young kid, number three,""
January 27
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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The record is now 8-1 without Dwyane Wade. And yet all the Miami Heat want is their star shooting guard back on the court. That could happen as soon as Friday's home game against the New York Knicks, with Wade testing his sprained right ankle in an aggressive pregame workout Wednesday night in Detroit. The Heat had Thursday off. "We want our All-Star out there," LeBron James said after the Heat moved to 5-1 in Wade's absence during this latest injury. Wade also missed three games earlier this season with a bruised left foot."
January 24
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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Dwyane Wade is making progress, but not enough to return to the court yet. The Miami Heat guard is not expected to play against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday because of a sprained right ankle. It would mark the fifth consecutive game Wade has missed and the eighth of the season. "Everything is the same as last game," coach Erik Spoelstra said. "He's day-to-day. He has been doing work, and we'll let you know as soon as he has taken the next step." However, Wade did participate in parts of Tuesday morning's shootaround, which is something he has not been able to do since spraining his ankle."
January 22
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade will miss his third consecutive game Saturday against the Philadelphia 76ers due to a sprained right ankle. With the Heat 5-0 in his absence this season, it has come to this: A Twitter hashtag #withoutwade. "The more I hear something like that it just becomes officially the theatre of the absurd," coach Erik Spoelstra said. Wade jokingly joined the movement Friday. He tweeted one of his young sons missed jump shots while the elder Wade was watching, but made shots when he left. Wade officially remains day-to-day. The ankle injury follows a bruised left foot and a strained right calf."
January 15
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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Based on the results of the past three games, plus the sprained right ankle sustained by Dwyane Wade, the impression would be that cracks are showing in the Miami Heat's foundation. The reality, power forward LeBron James said, is that even amid team's 8-1 start, there never was a foundation. "We haven't been healthy yet, since the start of the season," James said, with Friday's 117-104 loss to the Denver Nuggets leaving the Heat with a three-game losing streak to conclude their five-game coast-to-coast trip and, now, an 8-4 record. With swingman Mike Miller on the cusp of returning from the sports hernia that has had him sidelined since the start of the lockout-delayed training camp, the"
January 14
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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A mile high, it was nothing but a continued series of lows for the Miami Heat on Friday night at the Pepsi Center. And for Dwyane Wade, a frightening low. The Heat not only lost for the 10th consecutive year in their annual trip to Denver, this time a 117-104 decision at the hands of the Nuggets, but closed their five-game trip with losses in the final three games. Even more significant, Wade was forced out early in the fourth quarter with a sprained right ankle. X-rays taken after the game came back negative, with Wade saying he was relieved to learn it was not broken. "It's never hurt this bad before," he said of the sprain, with came when he stepped on the foot of Denver forward Al"
January 11
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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On a night Dwyane Wade regained his footing, the Miami Heat stumbled. And eventually tumbled. Despite Wade returning from a three-game absence due to a bruised left foot and scoring 34 points, and despite leading by 17 in the third quarter, the Heat fell to a 111-106 overtime loss Tuesday night to the Golden State Warriors. A familiar face and an increasingly familiar problem led to the loss. Foremost, former Heat forward Dorell Wright closed the scoring in regulation with a 3-pointer and then knocked down two more in the overtime to hand the Heat their first road loss of the season."
January 11
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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The irony amid the yapping between commercial collaborators Charles Barkley and Dwyane Wade, with Barkley seemingly sniping at the Miami Heat at just about every opportunity, is that the two share a common ground. Each has seen the light when it has come to a more fit lifestyle. With Barkley, it's the current Weight Watchers campaign. With Wade it's a lifestyle makeover that just happens to tie into the new Gatorade campaign of internal fitness. But while Barkley last week mocked the notion of getting paid to lose weight, believing his microphone was not live during TNT's telecast between the Heat and Atlanta Hawks, Wade said nutrition has become an NBA life lesson as he closes in on his"
January 10
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra just about had it all. "It was good," he said, "to have a full-scale, full-contact, full-padded practice. We haven't had one of these in a couple of weeks." Of course, it would have been better to have a full roster available for Monday's session at the University of San Francisco, particularly his starting backcourt. Of greatest concern was the continued absence of shooting guard Dwyane Wade, who has missed the past three games with what the team had termed a bruised left foot and now is questionable for the remaining three games of this five-game trip, which continues Tuesday against the Golden State Warriors."
January 4
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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Tuesday was a day left for introspection and review for the Miami Heat, a day for bouncing around thoughts instead of bouncing balls. While the plan never was to go undefeated, Monday's 100-92 loss to the Atlanta Hawks was enough to get the team to take stock with a video review at AmericanAirlines Arena, even after playing games the previous two nights. Foremost on the agenda was whether the Heat regressed, reverted to last season's approach of players trying to do too much on their own. Even Dwyane Wade said he needed to go to the videotape to solve that one."
December 29
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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The air of invincibility that had permeated the Miami Heat's first two games was absent at the start. In its place was a quick 11-0 deficit. Dwyane Wade then was absent at the start of the second half with a foot injury. Gone, but not forgotten. Regaining his legs, or at least enough of them, Wade banked in a short push shot with 2.9 seconds to play to close out the scoring in a 96-95 victory Wednesday night over the Charlotte Bobcats at Time Warner Cable Arena."
December 26
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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That victory the Miami Heat were looking for last June in Dallas? They found it Sunday. That additional element to make the game easier? They apparently have found that, as well. Doing to the Dallas Mavericks' championship celebration what the Mavericks did to their 2011 championship hopes, the Heat got the best of LeBron James and Dwyane Wade to roll to a 105-94 season-opening Christmas Day rout Sunday at American Airlines Center. "It was a good, business, professional win for us tonight to get this thing started," coach Erik Spoelstra said. "We understand this is going to be a wild journey." Celebrities: See who is courtside at the Finals In a game played at a decidedly non-playoff pace,"
December 24
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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The matchup has a familiar feel. So does the advance hype. When the Miami Heat open their season Sunday against the Dallas Mavericks, it not only will be a repeat of the 2011 NBA Finals, but it will be accompanied by the no-respect card the Mavericks played in advance of winning last season's championship. This time it's the Mavericks claiming despite taking that series in six games that the offseason focus immediately returned to the Heat's Big Three of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. Former Heat forward Shawn Marion has been particularly effusive on the subject, telling ESPN, "We've gotten to the point where everybody started overlooking us and talking about everybody else.""
December 15
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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Lights! Camera! Dwyane Wade! LeBron James! Chris Bosh! At the podium on media day. In front of the photographers. Celebrities: See who is courtside at the Finals And amid daily media throngs after practice. The others? You can find them to the side, often alone, waiting for the Miami Heat star attractions to finish their mega media obligations. "We," power forward Udonis Haslem said, "work on the bus and make sure it keeps working." While it could be debated whether the Miami Heat started the latest incarnation of the NBA's "Big Three" trend, what's become clear is that teams aren't necessarily viewed as "teams" anymore, but rather as core players and the rest of the roster."
December 12
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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When the Miami Heat open the season Dec. 25 on the road against the Dallas Mavericks, it will pit the Heat against defending NBA champions. Sort of. To Heat guard Dwyane Wade the ongoing makeover in Dallas is a sign of changing championship times in the league. Already gone from the Mavericks in free agency are center Tyson Chandler and forward Caron Butler, who was sidelined by a knee injury during last season's NBA Finals. Point guard J.J. Barea, a prime Heat finals nemesis, might be lost, as well. Added by Dallas during this post-lockout whirlwind is former Heat forward Lamar Odom. "I think that's why nowadays winning one championship means so much, because you don't know if you're"
December 8
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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Among the Big Three, he was the one who was here first. To a degree, that puts Dwyane Wade in a different place with the Miami Heat than LeBron James and Chris Bosh. Wednesday, at the media launch event for his Jordan Fly Wade 2 sneaker, Wade spoke very much as a team captain, the lone member of the team's Big Three with such a designation. During a relaxed interview conducted in the bleachers of a gym in downtown Miami, Wade offered his thoughts about James' tumultuous year, Bosh's growth as an equal partner in the team's postseason success, and how he has stepped back when it comes to recruiting and the free agency of backcourt partner Mario Chalmers. He also spoke two days before"
November 22
New Orleans Times-Picayune
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NBA basketball, or at least something that resembles it featuring at least four of the most noteworthy names in the league, will return to New Orleans on Dec. 3 at UNO's Lakefront Arena when Hornets guard Chris Paul hosts an event featuring some of his best friends. Dubbed the "Google+ Homecoming Tour" by CAA, the sports marketing agency that represents Paul and several of the league's highest-profile players, Paul will be joined by Miami's Dwyane Wade and LeBron James and the Knicks' Carmelo Anthony in the exhibition that will tip off at noon on the lakefront. Proceeds from the four-city tour — games are also scheduled for Chicago; Akron, Ohio; and East Rutherford, N.J., areas that are"
November 20
ESPN.com
columnist Michael Wallace
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Do me a favor. Wake me when the next – no, make that, first - top NBA star reaches the TSA security checkpoint at your nearest airport on the way out of the country to play ball overseas. Until then, I'm sleeping on the chatter from some marquee players suggesting they'll take their talents through customs. Not only is this literally foreign territory for our domestic best, it's also an internationally flawed concept. Basketball Without Borders is one thing, indeed a fine global NBA outreach program. But NBA brethren dealing with lockout boredom is something completely different."
November 18
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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Dwyane Wade was planning to be in the air Thursday. Instead, he finds himself grounded in the reality that his short-term NBA future is up in the air. On a day he should have been in flight to Cleveland for a Friday game against the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Miami Heat guard instead found himself at the Jose Marti Gym, on the set of a commercial shoot for a new Gatorade campaign that is launching early next year. Launching, most likely, in the void of an NBA backdrop. That had Wade considering where he stands in his career, with whom he stands, and how he stands with a former teammate."
November 14
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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This time it wasn't Dwyane Wade face-to-face with David Stern. Instead, Sunday night it was the Miami Heat guard going against the NBA commissioner on Twitter. With the NBA inviting questions to its Twitter account in advance of a Monday meeting of team representatives to consider the league's lockout latest offer, Wade got himself to the front of the line among the league's 3 million followers for the 80-minute session. "Why," Wade asked in Twitter form, "are all your 'system solutions' only impacting the PLAYERS?? What have the owners giving up of significance??" Moments later in the 140-characters-or-less forum, the league responded, "The economics & system favored the players in prior"
November 6
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
columnist Ira Winderman
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Perhaps it is best the season decided to wait until Dwyane Wade had his cathartic radio conversation with Mike Krzyzewski. Because this way the issue can be addressed and we can move on. In summing up the Miami Heat's less-than-satisfying finish to 2010-11, Wade this past week told the Duke coach, "we wanted to win to spite people." During the appearance on SiriusXM Radio, Wade added, "I believe that's the reason we didn't win a championship." No. No. No. No. No. No. While no one is enjoying the lockout, at least coach Erik Spoelstra now has the advantage of arriving to training camp, whenever it opens, aware of such thought process. For as much of a circus as last season was, with its"
October 30
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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While a single collective-bargaining agreement will emerge from the NBA lockout, it is becoming evident that a dual set of operational rules will be in place, one for teams operating below the luxury tax and another for those operating above. Stay below and flexibility, salary-cap exceptions and greater access to the free-agent and trade markets will remain in place. Operate above and you had better be content with what is in place on your roster, because it won't be getting much better. Which (as always) brings us to the Heat."
October 29
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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An NBA lockout exhibition scheduled for Sunday in Puerto Rico that was to include the Miami Heat's Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh has been canceled. "The Puerto Rico game on Sunday is not happening," a source familiar with the situation texted the Sun Sentinel on Friday. The event, which also had listed Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant and Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant among participants, initially was supposed to be part of a world tour with additional stops in London, Macau and Australia. None of those games are currently scheduled."
October 20
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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The domestic lockout tour of NBA stars apparently is about to take to the world stage. In the wake of a report by a Puerto Rico newspaper last week, ESPN and Yahoo are reporting that a group of NBA stars that would include the Miami Heat's Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh and LeBron James are poised to participate in a six-game world all-star tour from Oct. 30 through Nov. 9, with stops in Puerto Rico, London, Macau and Australia. While the event is contingent on the continuation of the NBA's work stoppage, the NBA already has cancelled games scheduled through Nov. 15, with additional rolling cancellations expected to be forthcoming if there is no progress in the federal mediation that continues"
October 9
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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Saturday night was about what LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh have been missing. The coming week might be about what they won't get back. Gathering at Florida International University for their charity lockout all-star game, the Miami Heat's three stars found themselves talking about a thirst for basketball that largely might go unquenched except at events such as Saturday's surprisingly dramatic "South Florida All-Star Classic." "I'm prepared for a season whenever it happens," James said before Saturday's extravaganza, which drew an overflow, enthusiastic, sellout crowd at 4,000-seat U.S. Century Bank Arena, "and I've been preparing all summer, putting in a lot of work.""