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05 September 2025

• 3 reasons Kel’el Ware is already entering a pivotal 2nd NBA season

  Perhaps at first glance, there might not seem to be all that much pressure on young big man Kel’el Ware to perform at a high level for the Miami Heat in the 2025-26 season. Miami doesn’t project to be among the teams competing for a championship in the East in the coming season, and Ware […]

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• Rudy Gay says Grizzlies had what it took to beat 2013 Heat, but traded him

  Midway through the 2012-13 regular season, the Memphis Grizzlies said goodbye to forward Rudy Gay and traded him to the Toronto Raptors in a three-team deal. Gay played for the Grizzlies for the first six-plus seasons of his NBA career and helped the franchise return to relevancy. The Miami Heat, who were led by none […]

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• Dwyane Wade issues direct response to Mark Cuban: ‘Stop that bulls–t’

  Dallas Mavericks minority owner Mark Cuban seemingly is still bitter over his team’s loss to the Miami Heat in the 2006 NBA Finals. He claimed while on a podcast not all that long ago that the championship series was “stolen” from his Mavericks. Heat legend Dwyane Wade then had a subtle reaction to Cuban’s assertion […]

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• Nikola Jovic was ‘surprised’ to see ‘great piece’ Kasparas Jakucionis fall in draft

  Plenty of draftniks envisioned former University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign star guard Kasparas Jakucionis to be selected with a lottery pick in the 2025 NBA Draft, but the opening 14 picks of the draft came and went without him hearing his name called. The Miami Heat took his name off the board by selecting the Lithuanian […]

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• Michael Beasley ‘would have listened to Pat Riley’ if he could redo career

  It’s not a controversial take that former NBA forward Michael Beasley underperformed at the highest level. Beasley was selected with the No. 2 overall pick in the 2008 NBA Draft by the Miami Heat after he averaged 26.2 points and 12.4 rebounds per game in one season of college basketball at Kansas State University, yet […]

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• D-Wade’s subtle reaction to Mark Cuban saying 2006 Finals were ‘stolen’

  Not long ago, Dallas Mavericks minority owner Mark Cuban looked back on the 2006 NBA Finals between the Mavericks and Miami Heat while on a podcast and made some controversial remarks about the outcome of the series. Cuban claimed that the championship series was “stolen” from his Mavericks, who lost in six games after taking […]

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• Report: Heat dispute Markieff Morris’ account of how they handled his injury

  Former Miami Heat forward Markieff Morris recently put the organization on blast for how it handled his neck injury when he played for the team in the 2021-22 season. In a recent podcast appearance, Morris accused the Heat of writing him off and keeping him on the bench long after he was cleared to play. […]

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• Markieff Morris says Heat ‘f——d’ him after Nikola Jokic injured him

  Veteran forward Markieff Morris suffered a neck injury early on in the 2021-22 season back when he was playing for the Miami Heat. Morris went down with the injury after Denver Nuggets star big man Nikola Jokic hit him with a hard shove from behind and sent him to the ground in a bout between […]

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