The NBA announced its second-annual In-Season Tournament schedule Tuesday afternoon, roughly a month after the groups were revealed. The Miami Heat will be in Group B with the Milwaukee Bucks, Indiana Pacers, Toronto Raptors and Detroit Pistons. Their two road games will be in Detroit and Indiana with the two inside Kaseya Center against Milwaukee […]
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It will take more than just one Summer League–or one full NBA season entirely–to determine how the Miami Heat draft shaped up relative to the rest of the NBA. Though the best developmental staff in the NBA got their hands on another toolsy young player in the 2024 draft in center Kel’el Ware, a position
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Nearly two months after the Miami Heat released their home preseason schedule, the team disclosed their two road games ahead of the 2024-25 season Monday. Miami will open the preseason on the road against the Charlotte Hornets on Tuesday, Oct. 8, at 7:00 p.m. EST. They will then play three straight home preseason games before
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Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra just concluded his first Olympic run as an assistant coach under head coach Steve Kerr with Team USA, who earned their fifth-straight Gold Saturday with a 98-87 win over France. It came on the heels of a disappointing 2023 FIBA World Cup, where USA didn’t medal as a result
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By now, you’ve probably heard–or perhaps read–about Kel’el Ware’s encouraging Summer League with the Miami Heat. He made All-Summer League first team, posting 18.3 points, 8.4 rebounds and 1.9 blocks in 26.7 minutes across eight combined games. It was a small sample size, and Ware wasn’t perfect (no rookie is), but his play looked very
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We are less than two months away from the start of the Miami Heat’s training camp. Before you know it, the 2024-25 season will arrive. While free agency didn’t offer much activity for the Heat, let’s do some way-too-early forecasting with the currently constructed roster. Betting sites nationwide released their over-under win totals for each
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Even though things were slow on the free agent front, the Miami Heat Summer League squad had one to remember. Miami capped off Summer League going 8-1, including an undefeated 6-0 in Las Vegas that netted them their first Summer League title in franchise history. It was a collective effort, but one of the biggest
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In a team sport, not everyone is always going to play, especially in a 40-minute Olympic basketball game as opposed to a 48-minute NBA contest. Reigning NBA champion Jayson Tatum (and Indiana’s Tyrese Haliburton) were subject to that in Team USA’s 26-point win over Team Serbia Sunday. Head coach Steve Kerr benched Tatum in favor
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For the second consecutive summer, 21-year-old Heat forward Nikola Jovic is competing for Serbia on the international stage, this time for the 2024 Paris Olympics alongside Nikola Jokic–arguably the best player on the planet–and Bogdan Bogdanovic. Earlier this summer, however, Jovic suffered a serious ankle injury in an offseason workout that was reported by a
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We are now three days removed from the conclusion of Summer League, capped by the Miami Heat capturing their first-ever Summer League title over the Memphis Grizzlies, finishing 6-0 in Las Vegas and 8-1 overall. Now it’s time to evaluate some individual performances! Below, I put on my professor cap and grade each Heat player’s
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