Five years ago, who would have guessed that Bob Knight would one day coach at Texas Tech? Or that Michael Jordan would play for Washington? Or that Pat Riley would coach one of the worst teams in the NBA?
As Chuck Berry once sang, it just goes to show you never can tell.
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Glenn Rogers says that Pat Riley needs to forget the notion that the Heat might get back in the playoff hunt, that Larry Brown took another jab at Iverson, that Krause denies there was a power struggle between him and Floyd, that Lucas claims he'd be the best point guard ever if it weren't for drugs, and that Dan Issel got a severance package worth close to the $5 million he was scheduled to be paid this season and next.
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Dec 31, 2001 11:54 AM EST
Two seasons ago, Jerry Stackhouse was on a Detroit Pistons team that was swept by Miami 3-0 in the first round of the playoffs.
On Sunday, Stackhouse and his Pistons beat the Heat for the first time since April 12, 2000.
What's the difference between this 5-23 Miami team and the one that beat Detroit the past seven times they've met in the regular season of playoffs? Stackhouse says the answer is Jamal Mashburn.
"You definitely underestimate the presence of a Mashburn on that team," said Stackhouse, who scored 24 points against Miami on Sunday despite being limited to 28 minutes because of foul trouble. "That's what they're missing."
Mashburn was traded two summers ago in the deal that brought Eddie Jones to Miami. Since then, the Heat played primarily with Bruce Bowen at small forward position last season and LaPhonso Ellis and Jim Jackson this season.
Jackson has tried to be the inside-outside player Miami is lacking (he has shot 52 percent over his last four games), but his 6-foot-6 frame limits him against some of the bigger small forwards in the league. Jones has a decent post-up game but often gets muscled off the block and ends up with an isolation play on the perimeter.
"They've got (Alonzo Mourning) in the middle, Brian (Grant) can post and hits jump shots, Eddie is doing his thing coming off screens and creating problems and getting guys open shots," Stackhouse said. "I think they need that key component, even though Jimmy's been playing well, Mash could hurt you inside and out and that's little bit of something that they're missing."
• Scary moment: Jones went down in obvious pain in the third quarter Sunday after running into Mourning with his left shoulder.
It was the same shoulder Jones had surgically repaired this off-season, so the pain he felt when he went down shook the shooting guard.
"When it happened I was a little scared," Jones said. "It was stinging. When it stings like that, I was like, `Whoa.' "
Jones left the floor holding his left arm. But after stretching and icing his shoulder he returned to the game. He missed three of four shots after returning.
• Hot flashes: Heat coach Pat Riley said he has seen more consistency from Mourning recently, especially defensively.
"I'm beginning to see flashes of the old Zo more consistently," Riley said. "I think a player has to understand who he is, where he came from and what he's all about as a player. Zo was Defensive Player of the Year as a shot blocker and intimidator inside. That's where his greatness is and that's where he has to focus a lot more of his energy, defensive rebound the ball, clog up the lane and then let the offense just sort of come with it."
In his last five games, Mourning is averaging 15.4 points, 9.4 rebounds and 3.2 blocks.
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Heat Dec 2001 Archive
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| Dec 31, 2001
That welcome sign in the Detroit airport wasn't made specifically for the Miami Heat.
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| Dec 31, 2001
Coach Pat Riley and the Heat have been waiting for center Alonzo Mourning to show the type of play that has twice earned him Defensive Player of the Year honors.
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| Dec 31, 2001
The Detroit Pistons found a remedy for their seven-game losing streak.
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| Dec 31, 2001
Tipoff: 7 p.
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| Dec 31, 2001
Swarming defenses and poor stamina have caused Alonzo Mourning's fourth-quarter scoring numbers to plummet, hampering a Heat offense that is often ineffective late in games.
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| Dec 31, 2001
The Heat has become the magic potion, the perfect panacea, for ailing opponents.
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| Dec 30, 2001
As bad as things are going right now for the Pistons -- and with seven straight losses, things are going mighty badly -- there is always somebody who has it worse.
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| Dec 30, 2001
As the Heat mulls a major rebuilding program built around huge salary cap space in 2003, coach/president Pat Riley and owner Micky Arison should examine the Chicago Bulls and determine what not to do.
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| Dec 30, 2001
Long after Heat practices are complete, Kendall Gill usually can be found shooting countless shots with the help of a ball-return machine.
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| Dec 30, 2001
When/where: 6 p.
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| Dec 30, 2001
There has been surprisingly little indignation.
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| Dec 30, 2001
Tipoff: 6 p.
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| Dec 30, 2001
Heat guard Eddie Jones is sitting in the Philips Arena visitor's locker room taking in some pregame tape of the opponent he will face momentarily.
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| Dec 29, 2001
Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald reports: Pat Riley suggested his thought process about dismantling could change if the Heat falls further behind in the race for the eighth playoff spot.
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| Dec 29, 2001
It's a line heard often when victorious opponents talk about the Miami Heat.
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| Dec 29, 2001
Miami · Counterfeit basketball at NBA prices.
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| Dec 29, 2001
Hours after Pat Riley insisted he didn't want to dismantle his roster, the Heat players gave their coach more incentive to do just that.
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| Dec 28, 2001
It took more than a quarter of the season, but Heat coach Pat Riley says it's now obvious that implementing the new defensive rules was a mistake.
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| Dec 28, 2001
Pat Riley fielded a few questions after Thursday's game but eventually walked away.
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| Dec 28, 2001
His offense an equal-opportunity failure against any alignment, Heat coach Pat Riley had held his tongue this season when it came to his opposition to zone defenses.
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| Dec 28, 2001
Atlanta · By now it has become inexcusable.
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| Dec 28, 2001
Tipoff: 7:30 p.
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| Dec 28, 2001
Heat coach Pat Riley long ago expressed his displeasure with the NBA's decision to allow zone defenses, but Thursday he made sure there was no misunderstanding.
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| Dec 28, 2001
Add one more category to the list of year-end awards: Dumbest remark by a person who should know better.
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| Dec 28, 2001
It was the perfect setting for a Heat victory.
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| Dec 28, 2001
Injured Hawks center Theo Ratliff sits and watches and is amazed at what he sees, his young teammates repeatedly falling behind by whopping margins in the first quarter, then fighting to dig themselves out of it.
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| Dec 27, 2001
When: 7:30 p.
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| Dec 27, 2001
Over its next two games, the Heat not only gets to take measure of one of the biggest trades of the offseason; it also can take measure of its future.
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| Dec 27, 2001
Over its next two games, the Heat not only gets to take measure of one of the biggest trades of the offseason, it also can take measure of its future.
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| Dec 27, 2001
Tipoff: 7:30 p.
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| Dec 27, 2001
Heat point guard Anthony Carter is facing uncertainty.
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| Dec 27, 2001
Could Brian Grant's problems be all in his head?
Not up there where his dreadlocks hang, the ones he hacked a few inches from this week out of frustration with his subpar play.
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| Dec 26, 2001
Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald has a rebuilding plan for the Heat.
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| Dec 26, 2001
There is more than an unnerving consistency to the Heat's losing this season; there also is a redundancy to the approach.
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| Dec 25, 2001
Early this season, when it seemed like his frustration had reached an all-time high, Brian Grant sat at home with a pair of clippers, prepared to shave off his lengthy dreadlocks in search of a change.
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| Dec 25, 2001
A season of dread almost turned into a season with no dreadlocks for Heat power forward Brian Grant.
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| Dec 25, 2001
Holiday spirit was replaced by three hours of sweat Monday at AmericanAirlines Arena, with the Heat holding a Christmas Eve practice, something the team had avoided in recent years.
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| Dec 25, 2001
Anthony Carter's agent, Bill Duffy, says Carter wants a second opinion before deciding whether to have surgery on his strained lower abdomen, the same injury that kept him out of seven preseason games.
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| Dec 25, 2001
At 22, Heat reserve center Ernest Brown couldn't be happier about his place in life.
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| Dec 25, 2001
Brian Schmitz of the Orlando Sentinel reports: Tracy McGrady returned to the Magic's practice Monday from Atlanta, where doctors worked on his aching sacroiliac.
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| Dec 24, 2001
Raptors assistant coach Stan Albeck suffered a stroke in the team's locker room prior to Sunday's game against the Heat and was rushed to an area hospital.
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| Dec 24, 2001
Heat guard Mike James can now say he has officially played in the NBA.
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| Dec 24, 2001
There are no more ways to state the obvious, so Heat coach Pat Riley is resorting to an alternate form of communication.
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| Dec 24, 2001
Toronto Raptors assistant coach Stan Albeck suffered a stroke before Sunday's 83-76 win over Miami and was taken to a local hospital.
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| Dec 23, 2001
Pat Riley was so successful and so arrogant during his heyday that the Miami Heat coach once wrote a book entitled "The Winner Within.
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| Dec 23, 2001
Kendall Gill has a proposed remedy for what ails the Heat offense.
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| Dec 23, 2001
In this dreadful season, Heat coach Pat Riley may soon run out of motivational tactics for his team.
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| Dec 23, 2001
If there is any consolation regarding the Heat's salary structure, it is that the Heat is not alone.
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| Dec 23, 2001
In preseason, Heat coach Pat Riley said he wanted to run a "go-go" uptempo offense.
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| Dec 23, 2001
It's little solace, but Miami is no longer alone in its misery in the Atlantic Division.
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| Dec 23, 2001
Tipoff: 3 p.
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| Dec 23, 2001
Four days after Charlotte's Baron Davis dominated Anthony Carter for a third and final time in April's playoffs, Heat coach Pat Riley shocked a room full of reporters when he said he would be comfortable with Carter as a starter this season.
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| Dec 22, 2001
Pick your poison.
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| Dec 22, 2001
The Heat placed point guard Anthony Carter on the injured list before Friday's game, and coach Pat Riley said Carter probably should undergo surgery to correct a lingering lower abdominal strain.
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| Dec 22, 2001
Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald reports: Sixteen months after signing Eddie Jones and Brian Grant to seven-year, $86 million contracts, the Heat is willing to trade either in the right deal, according to an NBA official in contact with the team.
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| Dec 22, 2001
Miami - Tonight's game against Indiana marks the ninth time the Cavs will play on back-to-back nights this season.
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| Dec 22, 2001
Miami
- John Lucas was so elated that his chest bump with Chris Mihm knocked Lucas flat on his bottom.
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| Dec 21, 2001
When a player learns he has been traded to the Cavaliers, it often has not prompted high-fives and handstands.
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| Dec 21, 2001
Cavaliers vs.
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| Dec 21, 2001
Heading into tonight's game against Cleveland, the Miami Heat have used the past two days of practice as a training camp.
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| Dec 21, 2001
WHEN: 7:30 p.
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| Dec 21, 2001
Heat rookie guard Mike James believes in Jesus Christ, himself and timing -- but not necessarily in that order.
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| Dec 21, 2001
Tipoff: 7:30 p.
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| Dec 21, 2001
It's one of the oldest sports cliches in the book: ``One game at a time.
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| Dec 21, 2001
Can you feel the Heat?
No, not really.
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| Dec 20, 2001
Mike James has never played a regular-season game for the Miami Heat, but the point guard certainly left his mark during the summer months and training camp this season.
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| Dec 20, 2001
Way back in the honeymoon stage, Heat coach Pat Riley likened his duo of Eddie Jones and Brian Grant to Utah's John Stockton and Karl Malone.
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| Dec 20, 2001
Jeff Van Gundy doesn't coach the New York Knicks anymore.
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| Dec 20, 2001
After a night filled with boos, Heat coach Pat Riley resorted to the only remedy he knows for a basketball hangover: sweat it out through lots of hard work.
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| Dec 20, 2001
Brian Grant glanced reluctantly at the scoreboard after possibly the most hideous loss of his career, and what he saw was downright unfathomable: 56 points.
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| Dec 19, 2001
Israel Gutierrez of the Palm Beach Post reports: Kendall Gill had just been called for a technical foul for giving a half-hearted shove to Jazz forward Andrei Kirilenko.
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| Dec 19, 2001
Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald reports: Desperate for a point guard with offensive skills, the Heat on Tuesday re-signed Mike James, who flopped during training camp after flashing considerable potential during the summer.
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| Dec 19, 2001
This, even by the low standards of this Heat season, was an abomination.
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| Dec 19, 2001
One night, so much goes so wrong.
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| Dec 19, 2001
After watching the most grotesque display of this utterly revolting season, Heat coach Pat Riley probably feels like the Scrabble player who's willing to skip a turn in order to trade in all his letters.
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| Dec 19, 2001
Don't ask the Utah Jazz.
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| Dec 18, 2001
The distant view is that two teams for the aged will meet tonight at AmericanAirlines Arena.
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| Dec 18, 2001
When/where: 7:30 p.
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| Dec 18, 2001
Chris Gatling proudly admits to being a new man.
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| Dec 18, 2001
Heat forward Brian Grant refuses to use his lingering foot injury as an excuse for his poor play, saying he's to blame.
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| Dec 18, 2001
When Heat coach Pat Riley spent $2.
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| Dec 18, 2001
Fifty wins.
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| Dec 18, 2001
Pat Riley has started to run out of ways to describe his Miami Heat.
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| Dec 18, 2001
Fifty wins.
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| Dec 18, 2001
If misery loves company, it's appropriate for the disappointing Jazz and the struggling Heat to meet up tonight in Miami.
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| Dec 17, 2001
It was cold and snowing 10 years ago tonight.
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| Dec 17, 2001
Under coach Pat Riley, the Heat has never been about finesse.
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| Dec 17, 2001
The perception is that Pat Riley has never been here before, never wallowed at the bottom of the standings, never dealt with defeat in such hideous doses.
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| Dec 17, 2001
When the Miami Heat traded for Tim Hardaway in 1996, the point guard came labeled as a malcontent whose scoring and playmaking ability could never make up for his loud mouth and big head.
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| Dec 16, 2001
Respect Jeff Van Gundy? No question.
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| Dec 16, 2001
It's difficult to tell if Rod Strickland's insertion into the Heat starting lineup was a promotion or a demotion.
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| Dec 16, 2001
The national anthem had just been performed and Seattle's KeyArena was as quiet as a building can be when it's filled with antsy basketball fans.
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| Dec 16, 2001
Pat Riley and Mike Keenan coached in New York at the same time, coached teams owned by the same parent company and lived within a mile of each other in Connecticut.
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| Dec 16, 2001
It has been 10 days since the Heat held an off-day practice.
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| Dec 16, 2001
The last thing a last-place team can afford is turnovers.
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| Dec 16, 2001
This was not one of those mark-your-calendar sort of games.
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| Dec 15, 2001
Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald reports that the Heat are actively seeking a point guard ``that can shoot'' or an athletic shooting guard or small forward ``that can shoot,'' coach Pat Riley said Friday.
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| Dec 15, 2001
There's a line in The Hotel New Hampshire, a novel by John Irving, about the willpower it takes just to keep passing the open windows when life is at its oppressive and depressing worst.
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| Dec 15, 2001
This time, the Heat didn't wait until the fourth quarter to unravel.
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| Dec 15, 2001
Formerly linked be greatness -- once meeting in the NBA Finals in 1994 -- Rudy Tomjanovich and Pat Riley now have losing in common.
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| Dec 14, 2001
Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald reports: Swingman Sam Mack, added to provide three-point shooting off the bench, was released by the Heat on Thursday after making just 28.
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| Dec 14, 2001
When do you admit failure? When do you stop construction because the foundation is not up to supporting the task at hand? When do you condemn yourself to misery with the ultimate hope of erecting something sturdier?
A 4-16 record seems about the right time to at least consider such deconstruction.
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| Dec 14, 2001
When/where: 7:30 p.
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| Dec 14, 2001
It's difficult to determine which is more surprising -- seeing the Heat at the bottom of the Atlantic Division or New Jersey at the top.
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| Dec 13, 2001
Johnny Newman says teams wanted him, but he wanted to play for a winner.
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| Dec 13, 2001
The roles are reversed, but the respect still runs both ways.
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| Dec 13, 2001
Heat point guard Rod Strickland felt good
about returning to Washington for the first time since being released at midseason by the Wizards last year, but the home crowd did not feel likewise Wednesday night.
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| Dec 13, 2001
The formula to beating the Heat is no longer a mystery, nor is it complicated: Force Miami to make shots in the fourth quarter.
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| Dec 12, 2001
Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports: Miami Heat Head Coach Pat Riley said swingman Kendall Gill has been cleared to return from his broken left pinky and would resume practicing Thursday, possibly to play Friday against the visiting Nets.
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| Dec 12, 2001
The pressure is off.
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| Dec 12, 2001
The Heat might be in a worse situation than anyone dreamed when it lost 12 straight, started 3-15 and looked more lost than the backcourt of Hansel and Gretel.
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| Dec 12, 2001
When: 8 p.
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| Dec 12, 2001
After holding his tongue for weeks, Heat coach Pat Riley is becoming increasingly irritated with criticism from former Heat players Anthony Mason and Tim Hardaway.
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| Dec 12, 2001
The fourth-quarter meltdown arrived almost on cue, erasing all of a nine-point Heat lead.
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| Dec 12, 2001
What these Heat need is a time machine.
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| Dec 12, 2001
Milwaukee coach George Karl notices something different about Pat Riley as the Heat have fallen to the bottom of the NBA, and he does not like what he sees.
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| Dec 11, 2001
Now comes the fun part: Figuring out where Jeff Van Gundy will coach next.
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| Dec 11, 2001
The Milwaukee Bucks deemed ex-Heat forward Anthony Mason the missing piece to an Eastern Conference title.
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| Dec 11, 2001
Last year's Heat players are not only taking shots at coach Pat Riley, they're criticizing each other's views on Riley.
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| Dec 11, 2001
Spurred on by beleaguered coach Pat Riley, who angrily challenged his players to find their lost passion for the game or look for a new employer, the 3-15 Heat came home from its cross-country trek Monday with new direction and an inner resolve that had been lacking.
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| Dec 11, 2001
As Heat coach Pat Riley continues to lament his team's lack of foul shots, it's not as if the Heat has done much with its limited opportunities.
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| Dec 11, 2001
So what have the Heat learned after their first extended road trip of the season?
Not much that they didn't already know.
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| Dec 10, 2001
Glenn Rogers of the Express News writes that Spurs fans shouldn't feel cheated that Jordan sat out their game and no other.
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| Dec 10, 2001
While the Sacramento Kings have had the luxury of holding out Chris Webber, their All-Star forward who had missed the entire season until Sunday with a sprained right ankle, the struggling Heat has no such breathing room with center Alonzo Mourning.
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| Dec 10, 2001
After missing time because of a virus and related complications, Heat center Alonzo Mourning said it would take some time before he returned to the form he played at for the first three games of the season.
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| Dec 10, 2001
The $123 million man was back Sunday night -- and much to the Heat's chagrin.
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| Dec 10, 2001
The Heat broke its 12-game losing streak on Friday in Seattle, but even coach Pat Riley admitted a day later his team was the beneficiary of a little luck against the Sonics.
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| Dec 9, 2001
To watch Pat Riley agonize over losses, it would seem the man has only one interest in mind.
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| Dec 9, 2001
The trading deadline is not until Feb.
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| Dec 9, 2001
It is Friday afternoon in Seattle, and for-now Miami Heat coach Pat Riley is returning a phone call.
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| Dec 9, 2001
Pat Riley didn't congratulate his team Saturday for breaking a 12-game losing streak by winning in Seattle on Friday.
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| Dec 9, 2001
While police officers were taking target practice outside a dingy gym at the California Highway Patrol Training Center on Saturday, Heat players were inside practicing how to properly execute their offense down the stretch.
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| Dec 9, 2001
To longtime Heat fans, the most lasting image from four consecutive playoff wars against the dreaded Knicks was one of wide-eyed, haggard-looking coach Jeff Van Gundy latching on to Alonzo Mourning's leg and holding on for dear life as he tried to break up a fight between Zo and Larry Johnson during a 1998 first-round game.
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| Dec 9, 2001
Dallas to New Jersey to Philadelphia to Golden State to Portland to Atlanta to Cleveland and, finally, to Miami.
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| Dec 9, 2001
Alonzo Mourning is a shadow of his former self, and Heat coach Pat Riley's grudging acceptance of his former All-Star center's deteriorated condition has contributed to Miami's miserable start.
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| Dec 9, 2001
There has been speculation that Jeff Van Gundy's next stop will be in Miami, with Pat Riley moving himself to the front office.
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| Dec 8, 2001
Player of the game: Like fans, only a few Sonics showed up to play yesterday.
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| Dec 8, 2001
The Miami Heat resuscitated a game in overtime that should have been won in regulation, defeating the Sonics 98-94 at KeyArena last night.
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| Dec 8, 2001
Harvey Fialkov of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports: Either fueled by Seattle's limitless supply of Starbucks Coffee or the angry wake-up call from its irate coach, a revved-up Heat team awoke from a month-long coma and defeated the struggling Seattle SuperSonics 98-94 in overtime Friday night at KeyArena to snap a 12-game losing streak.
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| Dec 8, 2001
Looks like Pat Riley wasn't quite done with the post-practice rant he reeled off Thursday.
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| Dec 8, 2001
Remember the ``Free Eddie House'' movement? You might have noticed it cooled lately, and it's possible the second-year Heat guard could soon not be free, but banished.
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| Dec 7, 2001
During discouraging times like these, it's comforting to know someone, somewhere, is doing worse than you are.
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| Dec 7, 2001
When: Tonight, 7
Where: KeyArena.
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| Dec 7, 2001
The weight of all the losses is showing.
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| Dec 7, 2001
It's bad when a Clippers fan is shouting consoling messages like, "Pat Riley's won world championships.
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| Dec 7, 2001
When: 10 p.
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| Dec 7, 2001
Milwaukee Bucks forward Anthony Mason said he never could have envisioned the Heat starting the season so poorly.
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| Dec 7, 2001
Barry Jackson of the MIami Herald reports: Pat Riley has seen enough.
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| Dec 6, 2001
Alonzo Mourning is not suggesting the Miami Heat can shut out a team and win a basketball game 2-0.
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| Dec 6, 2001
Jim Jackson, the latest thirty-something free agent to be signed by the Heat, said he stayed in shape by taking spinning classes three times a week.
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| Dec 6, 2001
For a team laden with veterans who would be expected to excel under the pressure of close contests, the Heat's inability to close out games has been nothing short of shocking.
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| Dec 5, 2001
Harvey Fialkov of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports: Just like an old Clint Eastwood movie, Jimmy Jackson made a sudden impact in his Heat debut.
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| Dec 5, 2001
They're linked by their dapper attire and locker-room ire.
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| Dec 5, 2001
The Heat's power forward merry-go-round finally stopped Tuesday night, and not soon enough for the Heat.
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| Dec 5, 2001
They tend to be a dispassionate group.
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| Dec 5, 2001
Even before seeing newly acquired swingman Jim Jackson take the floor for the first time in a Heat uniform late Tuesday night, Heat coach Pat Riley praised him after two days of good practices.
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| Dec 4, 2001
Israel Gutierrez of the Palm Beach Post reports: Mario Elie, who worked out with the newly-acquired Jackson in Miami this past weekend, is telling friends he will be signing with the Heat in the next week or so.
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| Dec 4, 2001
His ability to produce 50-win seasons legendary, Pat Riley will have to get the Heat on that pace immediately -- or face the possibility of missing the playoffs for the first time in his 20 seasons as an NBA coach.
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| Dec 4, 2001
He is not afraid to go out a loser, Pat Riley insisted.
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| Dec 4, 2001
In its expansion voyage 13 years ago, the Heat traveled west to play the Clippers riding a season-opening 17-game losing streak.
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| Dec 3, 2001
Jim Jackson's long wait finally has ended.
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| Dec 3, 2001
Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports: Jim Jackson, a 6-foot-6 shooting guard who has been off with his shot in recent seasons, became the latest 30-something to be added to Pat Riley's patchwork roster.
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| Dec 2, 2001
Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports: At a time when silver linings are in short supply, the Heat at least finds itself sitting on potential lottery gold.
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| Dec 2, 2001
Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald reports: Free-agent guard Jim Jackson, a proven perimeter scorer who has bounced around the league in recent years, worked out privately with the Heat on Saturday and said he expects to sign a one-year contract as early as today.
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| Dec 2, 2001
Heat forward Chris Gatling pleads the sixth.
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| Dec 2, 2001
The only prominent Heat offseason castoff yet to weigh in on Pat Riley has put himself in the minority -- offering praise for his former coach and sympathy for his former team.
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| Dec 2, 2001
Alonzo Mourning carries with him a mental snapshot.
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| Dec 2, 2001
It's a lengthy list, but all of the following players have something in common: Tyronn Lue, Earl Watson, Antonio Daniels, Bobby Jackson, Tony Delk, Charlie Ward, Howard Eisley, Derek Fisher, Keyon Dooling, Travis Best, Moochie Norris, Chucky Atkins and Tim Hardaway.
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| Dec 2, 2001
Even though Pat Riley struggled through a tough opening month, which included his worst start ever and public criticism from his former players, the Heat coach has his supporters.
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| Dec 1, 2001
Normally, his players react to his words.
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| Dec 1, 2001
Heat coach Pat Riley said he would have to dig deep into his motivational bag of tricks to help the Heat get out of their longest funk in years, which is at 11 straight losses after Friday's 84-75 loss to Washington.
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| Dec 1, 2001
We looked at Pat Riley and Michael Jordan on Friday and had to bite our wagging tongues to keep from breaking out into a few bars of Live and Let Die or Band on the Run.
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| Dec 1, 2001
It took more than 44 minutes of game time, nearly two hours of real time.
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| Dec 1, 2001
We haven't seen professional basketball this ugly and awful in Miami since Pat Cummings, John Shasky and Scott Hastings were wearing too-tight shorts for the expansion Heat team that started 0-17.
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| Dec 1, 2001
Michael Jordan has surrounded himself with mediocrity, but the Heat still cannot beat him.
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