“Resilient “is the best way I can sum up this performance by the Miami Heat. A tough win in a hostile environment after a heart-breaking loss. A game where the Heat only got 17 points from Lebron. A game where Dirk Nowitzki threatened to take over as he has done so many times this post-season. [...]

I watched the first three quarters of this game live yesterday, then, thinking Miami had it sealed up, put it on record to go do some work. Boy, was that a mistake.
When I finally got around to watching the rest of the game I realised a couple of things.
1) Miami still can’t close games with [...]

So it wasn’t the most memorable Finals game. The shooting was woeful (both teams shot below 40% from the field) and the pace was slow. In fact, for the first 45 minutes or so I thought it was one of the most boring games I’d seen all playoffs. Completely unremarkable in every way. But then [...]

1. Which team was more impressive in finishing off their opposition 4-1 in the Conf Finals – the Mavs or the Heat?
Ash: Heat. Mavs were impressive, but OKC blowing Game 4 and 5 down the stretch was what really won it for them. Miami dominated Chicago throughout.
Ant: Impressive? Heat, as the Bulls are a better team [...]

That’s the age I was during the 2006 Finals. I was in Year 11, and had been in America over Easter. I’d even managed to go to Game 1 and 2 of Miami’s first round series against the Bulls. That year, I wanted the Heat to win the Finals, but not enough that I couldn’t [...]

3 votes – Lebron James. It wasn’t his most efficient game and he’s had better numbers, but James truly dominated this one on both ends of the court. He was aggressive offensively and didn’t settle for too many long jump shots (only took 1 three). Sure he made a costly turnover at the end of [...]

Day 31 – ReDirkulous
3 votes – Dirk Nowitzki. I didn’t see this game until three days later. Usually during the playoffs I won’t go and watch games that are 3-days old because there’s so much new action every day – what happened 3 days ago is old news. But I just had to watch this [...]

After so much drama in these playoffs – stunning upsets, unpredictable sweeps, young teams rising, old teams falling – it’s nice to know that some things are going according to plan. The #1 seed Bulls will play the #2 seed Heat in the Eastern Conference Finals. The best two teams in the East will battle [...]

A couple of days ago, the Thunder and Grizzlies played a mesmerising triple-OT game that overshadowed the Clash Of The Titans that was occurring between Miami and Boston in the East.
Well, the Heat saw fit to remind everyone of their presence today by wrapping up their series 4-1 with a 97-87 win over the Celtics, [...]

It was almost a year ago today when Puerto Rican Guy was voted off the NBA Wall Of Fame to make way for NBA Doubting Thomas Of The Year champ Danilo “The Cock” Gallinari.
Today, he clearly showed just how much the slight still hurt by contributing a major role off the bench in the Mavericks’ [...]