The Latest Breaking News from Miami Heat

On a night where the NBA’s superstars were on the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse court for the NBA All-Star Game, Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra found himself star-struck by the league’s elder statesmen, who gathered in Cleveland for the league’s 75th-anniversary celebration.

Erik Spoelstra was handed the reins to the Miami Heat after his mentor, Pat Riley, decided to step down from coaching after 11 seasons as the Heat’s coach. When he stepped down, Riley called Spoelstra a “man that was born to coach.”

In a season the Miami Heat have battled attrition, absence and ailment to climb to the top of the standings at the All-Star break, an inconvenient truth appears to have entered the equation:

There's little parity in the NBA even when it comes to All-Star contest wins, as the major-market teams tend to do the best in these sorts of popularity contests. As such, the Miami Heat with such a short history have already won 10 All-Star ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Perhaps not a case of packing it in, but the Miami Heat for most of Thursday night very much had the look of a team ready for a weeklong vacation.

So why now, nine months after quadriceps surgery, is Victor Oladipo practicing for the first time in a five-on-five setting? Because, Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra quipped Thursday, he does not see the need for six-on-six work.

MIAMI — The Miami Heat was presented with another opportunity to overcome adversity, but it couldn’t come through this time.

There was a time when Gabe Vincent essentially stood as the Miami Heat’s only point guard.

JD Shaw: The Miami Heat are signing swingman Haywood Highsmith to a 10-day contract, agent Jerry Dianis tells @HoopsRumors. Source: Twitter @JShawNBA What's the buzz on Twitter? Ira Winderman @ IraHeatBeat The Heat are adding Haywood Highsmith in a ...

The best way to catch a good night’s sleep after watching a Miami Heat game apparently is turning it off after the third quarter.

To sum up the P.J. Tucker experience, to appreciate that the statistical line of the veteran Miami Heat forward tells precious little of his contributions, is to simply rewind the video to the 8:52 mark of the third quarter of Saturday night’s 115-111 victory over the Brooklyn Nets at FTX…