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Jimmy Butler makes expletive comment about referee as Miami Heat head coach slams 'egos'

Six-time All-Star Jimmy Butler reacted badly to a post-game question after he scored 38 points in the Miami Heat's losing effort against the Orlando Magic on Saturday night

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Ira Winderman: If Heat end season at a loss, it’s because of these nightmare scenarios

No, this was not the expectation for the final month of the regular season, the Miami Heat scrambling to deal with the nuances of the NBA’s play-in tournament, the second-chance postseason event for four teams lacking the wherewithal to secure direct playoff entry with a top-six seed.

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Heat bench with needed burst when needed most

MIAMI — Observations and other notes of interest from Monday night’s 130-128 victory over the Atlanta Hawks:

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Spoelstra sows success by threading the needle with Heat playing time

MIAMI — When it comes to Miami Heat’s lapses during this roller-coaster season, managing the rotation has come down to Erik Spoelstra threading the needle.

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Ira Winderman: Heat have a Tyler Herro problem, and it’s not Tyler Herro

MIAMI — The Miami Heat have a Tyler Herro problem. And yet that doesn’t mean that Tyler Herro is the problem.

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Dave Hyde: Homestand is time for Heat to make a stand with season on the line

MIAMI — In the quiet of the losing locker room, the quiet of a season in trouble, the newest member of the Miami Heat sounded as perplexed as those who have seen it all. Kevin Love said, sure, they started strong Wednesday with 38 first-quarter points against Philadelphia.

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Takeaways and details from Heat’s blowout loss to 76ers to open critical six-game homestand

MIAMI — Five takeaways from the Miami Heat’s 119-96 blowout loss to the Philadelphia 76ers (40-21) on Wednesday night at Miami-Dade Arena to open a critical season-long six-game homestand, as the Heat fights to avoid the play-in tournament. The Heat (33-30) continues the homestand with another important game Friday against…

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Ira Winderman: Heat’s lesson same as it ever was, overachieve or bust

MIAMI — There is something particularly honorable about a professional sports team overachieving. It is a way of telling fans that no matter what appears to be missing, there is a willingness to go above and beyond.

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Ira Winderman: Heat-76ers allowed to percolate and marinate before rivalry resumes Monday

For four months, the Miami Heat have measured themselves against just about everything the NBA has had to throw at them.

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Erik Spoelstra says Heat were surprised by Kevin Love’s availability, calls signing ‘a no-brainer’

Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said when the team sat out the NBA trading deadline, other than to offload Dewayne Dedmon’s contract, it was not with any knowledge of the impending signing of Kevin Love.

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Ira Winderman: How the middle ground unearthed Bam Adebayo’s All-Star breakout for the Heat

Bam Adebayo recognized something had to change, that he needed something liberating, something to get his offensive potential closer to the bar he had so firmly established on the defensive end over his first five seasons.

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Nets streamlining language to build chemistry during the NBA All-Star break

NEW YORK — Step 1 for the new-look Nets? Start speaking the same language.

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Another cardiac close for Heat, this time with 107-103 OT escape in Orlando

The definition of insanity has become the definition of the Miami Heat’s season.

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Butler saves night for Heat at buzzer, as dramatic 97-95 victory over Rockets extends home win streak to eight

MIAMI — The Miami Heat went into Friday night having lost this season to three of the four worst teams in the NBA, teams so bad that they practically already have locked up the top seeds for the draft lottery.

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Adebayo, Butler push Heat to seventh consecutive home win, 116-111 over Pacers

MIAMI — The roster could change with Thursday’s 3 p.m. NBA trading deadline.

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LeBron James breaks NBA all-time points-scoring record

Los Angeles (AFP) - LeBron James finally eclipsed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the most prolific scorer in NBA history on Tuesday, breaking a 39-year record that many throughout basketball believed would never be beaten.

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Inside LeBron's Evolution As a Scorer

The Lakers star broke Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s NBA all-time scoring record. This is how he got it done.

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Heat’s Jimmy Butler cites NBA ‘rut/funk’ and says it’s ‘not what we want to do’

The NBA doldrums tend to run from Christmas through the All-Star break, the league seemingly only awakening at the NBA trade deadline, which is Thursday, and in that case it most reinvigorates front offices.

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Hornets sting Heat with gritty comeback

Los Angeles (AFP) - The lowly Charlotte Hornets cooled off the Miami Heat on Sunday, rallying for a 122-117 NBA victory that ended Miami's three-game winning streak.

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Butler, Adebayo help Heat hold off Magic, 110-105, to close out 3-0 homestand

MIAMI — In the end perhaps it makes perfect sense for the Miami Heat. Late-arriving crowds; games decided in the closing ticks.

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Heat have a plan to combat Magic’s height in Friday’s in-state matchup

MIAMI — The Heat have a tall task in front of them on Friday night.

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Ira Winderman: How competitive chameleon Max Strus has kept the Heat afloat

By doing anything and everything required, Max Strus carved out an NBA career from starting in Division II in college, going undrafted out of DePaul, being let go by the Boston Celtics and Chicago Bulls, fighting back from Dec. 2019 knee surgery and emerging from a two-way contract..

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This time Heat on wrong side of rout in 115-90 collapse vs. Doncic in Dallas

It proved to be an all-or-nothing three-game trip for the Miami Heat, culminating with Friday night’s 115-90 rout at the hands of the Dallas Mavericks at American Airlines Center.

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Heat roll past short-handed Pelicans, 124-98

The simplicity was in the seizing, something that has not always been the case this season for the Miami Heat.

Miami Herald

Takeaways and details from Heat’s loss to Hawks to open three-game trip

ATLANTA — The Miami Heat has leaned on its defense to make up ground in the standings in recent weeks, but that usually reliable defense was a no-show in Monday’s first half.

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