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Heat Center Joel Anthony Carving Niche, Earning Nickname
By Surya Fernandez - AOL NewsApparently, Dwyane Wade wasn't the only teammate to have been bestowed a nickname by former Heat center Shaquille O'Neal years ago. "Everyone on the team calls me 'Doc'," explained reserve center Joel Anthony after Sunday's victory against the Los Angeles Clippers. "It's from my rookie year when Shaq was over here. It stuck ever since." As for the origins of the name, Anthony gives a soft laugh and politely declines to explain it. "It's a long story and I don't really have a lot of time for that." He's had time to pick up another nickname and this one looks like it's sticking around, too. ...
Heat Avenge Earlier Loss to Clippers
By Surya Fernandez - AOL NewsThe Miami Heat won their sixth game in a row and got some measure of revenge against the Los Angeles Clippers with a comfortable 97-79 victory in a Sunday matinee. Back on Jan. 12, they had ended Miami's 13-game road winning streak. In the first game of the series, the trio of Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh and LeBron James played well yet the rest of the team contributed little and only accounted for nine total points. In the rematch in Miami, the supporting cast was the difference as Mike Miller, Joel Anthony and a resurgent Eddie House continued their recent stretch of strong games. Settling a ...
Injury Bug Cooling Miami Heat
By Surya Fernandez - AOL NewsMIAMI -- Maybe it was Dan Gilbert's angry letter putting a hex on the Miami Heat and LeBron after the Decision. Maybe it was LeBron James' fateful tweet about karma directed at Gilbert weeks ago. Or, maybe it's just the fact that the Heat are simply going through a rough patch where an assortment of players, including their top three stars, have suffered a rash of minor and not-so-minor setbacks over the course of a long NBA season. Even LeBron, one of the more durable players in the league who only missed 16 games due to injury in his entire career prior to joining Miami, hasn't been able to ...
Kobe Bryant: Players No Longer Control Their Own Destiny
By Chris Tomasson - AOL NewsDENVER -- Kobe Bryant played the role of basketball historian Thursday. When asked about star players in the NBA now being able to dictate where they might play, the Lakers star guard scoffed at the notion. He said free agency is nothing like it was when he broke into the NBA in 1996-97, the same season in which the Lakers signed center Shaquille O'Neal as a free agent. "How is he controlling his destiny?'' Bryant said when asked whether Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony is able to control his destiny on where he might be dealt by the Feb. 24 trade deadline. "No, you're seeing the power of the ...
Dwyane Wade to Miss Week With Hamstring; Heat Still Shine
By Tim Povtak - AOL NewsMIAMI -- After waiting almost 12 weeks since their grand plan came to fruition, the Miami Heat didn't get much chance Tuesday night to show off their newly-crowned Big Three. But the New Two did just fine together. With Dwyane Wade leaving only three minutes into the game with a right hamstring strain, newbies LeBron James and Chris Bosh quickly made themselves right at home at American Airlines Arena, meshing comfortably with a carefully-assembled supporting cast. Although the plan in this exhibition opener was to work on the Wade/James/Bosh chemistry -- three stars, one team – it ...
Poll: Is Race a Factor in the LeBron James 'Backlash'?
By David Knowles - AOL News(Sept. 30) -- Is America upset with LeBron James, and does it have to do with race? After the basketball sensation held a live PR event known as "The Decision" on ESPN, during which he announced he was leaving the Cleveland Cavaliers to play alongside Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh on the Miami Heat, a stream of articles has criticized the NBA great for what many considered a shameless publicity-seeking stunt. In an interview with CNN's Soledad O'Brien on Wednesday, James and his childhood friend Maverick Carter were asked a similar question. O'Brien: Do you think there's a role that race ...
Unlike Others, King James Can't Handle Being Hated
By Terence Moore - AOL NewsPerhaps you've heard. According to the folks at The Q Score Company, the only athletes disliked more by the public than LeBron James are -- in order of the most likely to be dangled off the edge of a stadium or arena by a roster of Joe Six Packs -- Michael Vick, Tiger Woods, Terrell Owens, Chad Ochocinco and Kobe Bryant. This justifiable King James bashing continues Pat Riley's biggest dream, but it adds to LeBron's worst nightmare. Riley loves it, all right. He has something else for the narrative he is trying to slam-dunk into the psyche of his Miami Heat players, and that is the ...
LeBron James' Tweet Aimed at Critics
By Robert Karpeles - AOL NewsKing James hath spoken and he sounds angry. After several weeks of backlash from fans, media, his former owner and other NBA past greats, LeBron James suggested he is ready to zip his critics up. His message came via Twitter. "Don't think for one minute that I haven't been keeping mental notes of everyone taking shots at me this summer. And I mean everyone," he wrote on his Twitter account. Last month, James announced on a one-hour special on ESPN that he would be leaving his home state of Ohio for Miami's South Beach to join Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. Since then, James has heard ...
NBA Releases Full 2010-11 Regular-Season Schedule
By FanHouse Staff - AOL NewsAfter releasing the top handful of games a week ago, the NBA unleashed its full 2010-11 regular-season schedule Tuesday, including its nationally televised rundown led by the "three and only" Miami Heat. The big three of Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh and LeBron James will tip off 29 games in front of a nationally televised audience. The two-time defending NBA champion Lakers will face the Celtics, a Finals rematch, on Jan. 30 in Los Angeles (ABC). The Celtics will host the Lakers back in Boston on Feb. 10 (TNT). The NBA will also bring back Heritage Week, which showcases classic rivalries with ...
Whether Chris Paul Stays or Goes, NBA Is Losing Integrity
By Terence Moore - AOL NewsWaaaah! I want to play with my buddies. If you don't let me, I'll take my ball and go home. Then I'll kick and scream until I get more millions for my millions while saying it's really about trying to win world championships. What a joke. Actually, it isn't funny that the NBA is just another one of these big babies with fat wallets away from vanishing off the face of the earth. And here's the biggest reason you should hold the chuckles: The forming of Miami's Big Three has triggered an attitude that is destroying the competitiveness of teams through selfishness and greed. Which brings us ...
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