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Lance Smacks Norris Cole In The Face, Pacers Bench Reacts
Lance Stephenson was assessed a flagrant 1 for face-palming Norris Cole and, judging by his reaction, teammate Chris Copeland probably agrees with that assessment. ...
Last Night Belonged To Crazy-Ass Lance Stephenson
Aside from Paul George's second-half explosion and its madcap ending, last night's game between the Heat and Pacers was pretty damn unwatchable. That's what happens when the best player in the universe has to spend most of the game on the bench with the foul trouble and the Pacers decide to do... wh...
Dolphins Scout Says He Was Fired For Staying Home To Care For Sick Wife
So, this is not a very good look for the Miami Dolphins, an organization which has pretty much become synonymous with "bad looks" over the course of the last year or so. According to a intent-to-initiate-litigation letter obtained by Fox Sports, a former Dolphins scout plans to sue the team over his...
Heat Fan Grandma Is A Pretty Great Grandma
This grandma is a really big fan of the Miami Heat, and so her grandson decided to record her while she watched Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals. Based on the video evidence, watching a game with this lady is probably be a lot of fun....
Here's A New Attempt At Gauging The Defensive Impact Of NBA Players
The defensive impact of individual NBA players is hard to measure, as it's so intertwined with their teammates' performance. Austin Clemens, undeterred, has taken an ambitious shot with his new Adjusted Impact by Court Location model, which attempts to parse out individual impacts on opponent shot s...
Ray Allen Capitalizes On Lax Pacers Defense With Superb Fourth Quarter
Ray Allen played a large part in allowing the Heat to break away from the Pacers Saturday night with four threes in the fourth quarter in a Game 3 win. Indiana's defense saw the three-point specialist as an afterthought, and he made them pay....
José Fernández Says He Pitched Through Pain Before Injury
José Fernández met with the media last night, his surgically repaired arm in a heavy cast and hanging in a sling, and admitted to having pitched through elbow pain during his last two starts of the season, without alerting the Marlins to his discomfort...
Paul George Says He Blacked Out After Taking A Knee To The Head
NBA fans saw something they aren't really used to seeing during last night's game between the Heat and Pacers: a player lying motionless on the floor after taking a blow to the head....
Mike Pouncey Has A Framed Aaron Hernandez Jersey In His House
I guess if there's one thing this teaches us about Mike Pouncey, it's that you have to have allegedly murdered at least four people before he will decide to remove your framed jersey from his living room. ...
Did Mike Epps Boast About Being At Heat-Pacers Today With An Old Photo?
We can't tell if Mike Epps is trolling or bad at lying....
The Heat Didn't Care That Joe Johnson Had A 34-Point Game
Joe Johnson hadn't scored more than 19 points in the first four games of the Nets-Heat series. Tonight, he was seemingly sinking everything with Brooklyn down 3-1. Miami wasn't fazed, though....
José Fernández Is Hurt, And We Aren't Allowed To Love Anymore
José Fernández is 21 years old and unquestionably one of the most exciting players in baseball. I use "player" in place of "pitcher" with purpose, because it's not just Fernández's ability to mow down hitters that makes him so much fun to watch; it's the fact that he milks every ounce of fun he poss...
Paul Pierce Got What He Asked For, And LeBron Went Off
Before last night's Game 4 between the Nets and Heat, Paul Pierce announced that he would be guarding LeBron James. It was an inspired bit of gamesmanship from the wily veteran. The likely idea was to get LeBron thinking about all those Celtics teams that stifled him in the playoffs—I'm an old dog, ...
Nets Sell T-Shirts With Andrei Kirilenko Looking Like Martha Stewart
The Nets are selling some pretty interesting shirts at Barclays Center for Game 4 against Miami tonight. As you can see, the shirts have illustrated faces representing the big names and head coach for both teams, and they are a little rough. I mean, Paul Pierce looks like Voldemort and KG (??) looks...
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Newspaper Headline: "Heat Cut Nuts"
Playing against the Heat sounds like no fun at all....
Seantrel Henderson Failed A Drug Test At The Combine
Adam Schefter reports that former Miami offensive tackle Seantrel Henderson flunked a drug test at the scouting combine, testing positive for marijuana. Either he successfully brought his own weed across state lines, or was able to locate some during just a few days in Indianapolis—that's good hustl...
What's Up With Nets.com Now?
With the Nets prevailing in their first-round series over Toronto, it's time for one of basketball's newest yet most venerable traditions—the ceremonial redirecting of Nets.com to the website of Brooklyn's next opponent. ...