Category: NBA

ATLANTA – What do you get when a pair of teams enter at 2-8 in their previous 10? The desperation of Friday night at State Farm Arena. Miami Heat vs. Atlanta Hawks wasn’t about making a statement. It was about coming up for air. To that end, the Heat can breathe a bit easier, after stealing into the Georgia night with a 126-111 victory. With his team playing in the ailment absences of Bam Adebayo (back) and Tyler Herro (toe), Heat coach Erik Spoelstra reshuffled his rotation and found enough to stop the bleeding. Overcoming 30 points from Hawks guard Trae Young and 24 from Hawks forward...

MIAMI – On the night before the night before Christmas, another lump of coal for the Miami Heat. So make it eight losses in the last nine games and a .500 record at the holiday break with Tuesday night’s 112-91 loss to the Toronto Raptors at Kaseya Center, this time their lowest-scoring game of the season. Looking nothing like the team that dominated on offense at the start of the season, Erik Spoelstra’s team instead this time fell to Sandro Mamukelashvili & Co. Unlike the efforts in road losses to the Boston Celtics and New York Knicks over the weekend, when the Heat competed until...

NEW YORK — When it comes to slumps, skids and defeats in droves, it’s as if the logic for the losses is without limitation. Sometimes it’s death by 3-pointers. Sometimes it’s an opposing hot hand. Sometimes one bad stretch doing the damage. Sunday night, in falling for the seventh time in eight games with a 132-125 loss to the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden, it was all of the above. For extended stretches, the Knicks could not miss from beyond the arc, closing 20 of 38 For an entire night, Jalen Brunson set the tone, the Knicks guard closing with 47 points. And for the second...

NEW YORK – Little has been easy for the Miami Heat lately and little will be easy for the remaining two games of this trip, on Friday night against the Boston Celtics and Sunday night against the New York Knicks. So if there was a moment for Erik Spoelstra’s team to make things right, to snap a season-worst five-game losing streak, this assuredly was it, against a Brooklyn Nets team that entered 7-18. But just as the losing streak included a home loss to the now 6-20 Sacramento Kings, nothing was a given about this one. And nothing was given by the Nets. So with offense again a struggle, it...

MIAMI — For the first time since guard Terry Rozier was arrested in October as part of an FBI gambling investigation and subsequently placed on leave by the league, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver on Tuesday directly addressed the impact on the Miami Heat. Rozier, who was arraigned last week, remains listed on the Heat roster, with his $26.6 million salary continuing to count against the team’s payroll. In addition, the Heat still owe the Charlotte Hornets a future first-round draft choice from the teams’ January 2024 trade. Multiple NBA sources have confirmed that neither the league nor the...