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The Miami Heat are only the third team to advance to the NBA Finals after posting a negative point differential during the regular season. They join the 1956-57 St. Louis Hawks and 1958-59 Minneapolis Lakers. Miami has won 41 straight playoff games when leading by 10 or more points at halftime, the second-longest streak in NBA […]
The highest-paid NBA mascots in 2023 might surprise a number of fans. Although the average NBA mascot salary is about $60,000 annually, five are earning at least $100,000. Out of the 30 NBA teams, there are four clubs that still have not adopted a mascot — Brooklyn Nets, Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Lakers, and […]
The Denver Nuggets (65-32, 53-43-1 ATS) will enter Game 1 of the 2023 NBA Finals this Thursday as 8.5-point favorites at home over the Miami Heat (57-45, 44-55-3 ATS). Denver is making its first appearance in the NBA Finals in franchise history. Meanwhile, Miami is making its seventh NBA Finals appearance and first since 2020. […]
The Miami Heat have had a total of seven undrafted players play this postseason, the most for an NBA Finals team in the modern draft era since 1966-67. Undrafted players include Duncan Robinson, Gabe Vincent, Udonis Haslem, Haywood Highsmith, Max Strus, Caleb Martin, and Omer Yurtseven. Vincent and Strus made appearances as regular starters. Robinson […]
The Miami Heat have a flight scheduled to Denver after Monday night’s Game 7 matchup against the Boston Celtics at TD Garden, per FAA records. Of course, the Denver Nuggets will face the winner of the Eastern Conference in the 2023 NBA Finals. If Miami prevents Boston from becoming the first NBA team to win […]
Watch Boston Celtics fans storm the streets of Beantown after Derrick White made the game-winning buzzer-beater over the Miami Heat in Saturday night’s 104-103 win in Game 6 of the 2023 Eastern Conference Finals. White became only the second player in NBA history to make a go-ahead shot while trailing as time expired when facing […]
The Miami Heat and Boston Celtics are the first NBA teams to play in a Game 7 in consecutive years since 1994-95. It is also the sixth time in league history. In the 2022 Eastern Conference Finals, Boston defeated the Heat 100-96 in Game 7 to advance to its 22nd NBA Finals. The Celtics are […]
The Dallas Mavericks are at a crossroads. After one of the most disappointing collapses in NBA history, the team failed to even make the play-in tournament this year. Even with trading for Kyrie Irving to pair up with Luka Doncic mid-season, Dallas is in massive need of reinforcements for Doncic, especially if they want him […]
Malcolm Brogdon (right forearm soreness) of the Boston Celtics has been downgraded to questionable for Saturday night’s Game 6 matchup against the Miami Heat of the 2023 Eastern Conference Finals. Brogdon, the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year, has been playing through a partially torn tendon in his right arm that he sustained during Game […]
Miami Heat guard Gabe Vincent (left ankle sprain) is questionable for Saturday night’s Game 6 matchup against the Boston Celtics of the 2023 Eastern Conference Finals. Vincent left Game 4 in the fourth quarter after suffering his injury. He finished with 17 points in 28 minutes. As a starter in Game 5, Kyle Lowry replaced […]