MIAMI -- As LeBron James walked onto the makeshift stage late Friday to take his seat at the postgame news conference, he plucked the edge of the stat sheet he held. In reality, the summary of numbers on the page was of little to no use for the Miami Heat star.
MIAMI -- It must be weird to be Roy Hibbert these days. On Friday morning at the Indiana Pacers' Game 2 shootaround at AmericanAirlines Arena, he sat at a plush courtside seat with cameras, microphones and tape recorders jammed into his face.
MIAMI -- Paul George will never forget that moment in 2009 when, as a skinny 19-year-old, he found himself guarding the reigning NBA Most Valuable Player in a pickup game. Every year, LeBron James hosts the top high school players in the country at a Nike-sponsored camp.
MIAMI -- Before the Miami Heat try to take a 2-0 series lead Friday in the Eastern Conference finals against the Indiana Pacers, Chris Bosh had a confession to make about the closing seconds of his team's overtime win in the opener.
MIAMI -- Making peace with the pain continues to be a precipitous work in progress for Dwyane Wade. But even as the Miami Heat star drags his troublesome right knee into Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals Wednesday against the Indiana Pacers, Wade no longer bothers with optimistic hopes and expectations.
MIAMI – For the past several weeks, LeBron James has finished up his daily routine at practice by shooting free throws with Ray Allen. Every practice, same thing. But on Tuesday, things were different.
MIAMI -- Erik Spoelstra is already in adjustment mode. The Miami Heat and the Indiana Pacers don't play Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals until Wednesday, but the Heat's coach is tweaking at least the narrative entering the best-of-seven series to advance to the NBA Finals.
In the 2011-12 playoffs, the Indiana Pacers were the team that forced the Heat to implement Erik Spoelstra’s title-winning vision. If Chris Bosh’s injury was the fuse, the size of the Pacers provided the gunpowder to make it all happen.
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