If you read enough Heat message boards, or the questions people ask Ira Winderman on the Sun-Sentinel page, there seems to be a lot of people intrigued by Tracy McGrady who is now on the trade block since Houston does not want to play him a ton of minutes since he is recovering from micro-fracture [...]

As per Quentin Richardson’s twitter feed, he says that in honor of Michael Jordan’s 55 in the Garden and the first Air Jordan sneakers, he and Wade will be sporting these for the 12:00 game against the Knicks..
pretty sweet

Kudos to Tim Reynolds, the Miami teams’ AP beat writer, who wrote a great article detailing Michael Beasley’s progress this season in the wake of being a new dad to two kids. You can find the article here, it’s a must read.
I have to admit I have been very impressed with Beas’ [...]

Wade once AGAIN mentions playing with LeBron James, this time to loudmouth Peter Vescey in the NY Post. (Link here)
money quote:
A lot of times in this league, players usually wind up going where they can get the most money. We’re both blessed within that area. We’ve made a lot of money. So we wanted [...]

According to these comments in the Miami Herald, Riley says the Heat need more intestinal fortitude to close out these close games they’re losing.
“What I think the team lacks, a little bit, is mental toughness. A real mental toughness,” Riley said as the Heat spent Monday regrouping from another late-game meltdown in Sunday’s [...]

The Blazers are in town tonight and I am eager to see if the Heat can continue its improved play this week. The Blazers lost last night in an ugly game to the Magic, and they have lost Greg Oden for the season with a gruesome knee injury earlier this month.
Portland has finally added [...]

Miami 104
Orlando 86
and it wasn’t that close
my favorite stat of the night:
Wade 29 minutes, team was +32 when he was on the court
Vince Carter, 29 minutes, team was -32 when HE was on the floor
just a rout from beginning to end.. Magic looked awful. The Heat had 25 total assists, the Magic had only [...]

It looks like Mario Chalmers’ tardiness to practice the other day has opened the door for him to lose his starting job. He seems to have regressed since last season (or at least not progressed off a successful rookie year) and now he will be coming off the bench again tonight. I liked [...]