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3 days ago | 
heatnation.com | Jesse Cinquini
The Miami Heat are looking to earn back their status as contenders in the Eastern Conference, and maybe the most important step they need to take to regain that status is acquiring a bona fide superstar. While the Heat did make the 2025 NBA Playoffs, they were swept in the opening round, and nobody on the Heat played like a consistent No. 1 scoring option in their series against the Cleveland Cavaliers.
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3 days ago | 
lakersdaily.com | Jesse Cinquini
With the Los Angeles Lakers clearly needing to improve at the center position next season, The Athletic’s Kelly Iko mentioned Houston Rockets big man Steven Adams as a potential target for the storied franchise this offseason. Adams was highly impactful in a bench role for the Rockets during the team’s short stint in the 2025 NBA Playoffs.
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6 days ago | 
heatnation.com | Jesse Cinquini
American businessman Gary Vaynerchuk recently appeared on a podcast episode hosted by none other than Miami Heat legend Udonis Haslem, even though Vaynerchuk is not a Heat fan himself. In fact, the team he’s a diehard fan of, the New York Knicks, have been rivals of the Heat in the Eastern Conference for a long time.
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6 days ago | 
lakersdaily.com | Jesse Cinquini
As was the expectation heading into his inaugural NBA season, Los Angeles Lakers guard Bronny James didn’t get many opportunities for playing time in the big leagues as a rookie. He appeared in well under half of the Lakers’ 82 regular-season games — 27, to be exact — and averaged just 6.7 minutes of playing time per game on the rare occasions head coach J.J. Redick called his number.
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6 days ago | 
heatnation.com | Jesse Cinquini
NBA fans looking for parity must love what they’ve seen out of the league in recent years. After all, the last six NBA championships have been won by six different organizations. Moreover, each team left in the 2025 NBA Playoffs is vying for either its first title in franchise history or several decades. Miami Heat legend Udonis Haslem thinks that the NBA is now entering an “era of parity,” and he believes teams can’t do what the Heat did during their Big 3 era when it comes to roster construction.
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1 week ago | 
heatnation.com | Jesse Cinquini
Some folks might forget that long after former NBA journeyman Stephen Jackson was a key role player in the San Antonio Spurs’ run to the 2003 NBA title, he carved out a brief second stint with the team. He joined the Spurs partway through the 2011-12 regular season but was let go before the 2012-13 regular season ended. The Spurs waived Jackson and signed former NBA wing Tracy McGrady soon thereafter, who was a shell of his former self at that stage of his career.
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1 week ago | 
lakersdaily.com | Jesse Cinquini
All signs indicate that Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James has been a consummate teammate throughout his NBA career, as he’s been great at playmaking and leading his teams to wins over the years while often making players around him better. But former NBA sharpshooter Danny Green, who played on the Lakers team that won the title in 2020, recently spoke about a potential downside of playing alongside arguably the greatest basketball player of all time.
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1 week ago | 
heatnation.com | Jesse Cinquini
In the summer of 2010, star forward LeBron James and a pair other stars in Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh formed one of the more iconic trios in NBA history on the Miami Heat. However, there’s more to the story than meets the eye, and it wasn’t all smooth sailing for the Heat that summer. Five Reasons Sports’ Ethan J. Skolnick has provided some insight on some of the events that led up to the Big 3’s formation.
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1 week ago | 
lakersdaily.com | Jesse Cinquini
The Los Angeles Lakers won their most recent championship five years ago in 2020, but the 2020 NBA Playoffs weren’t conventional by any stretch. That year’s playoffs were held at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex, and the setup was often referred to as the Orlando, Fla. bubble. Because of the different nature of the 2020 NBA Playoffs, some folks have talked down on the Lakers’ 2020 title over the years and put an asterisk next to that championship.
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1 week ago | 
lakersdaily.com | Jesse Cinquini
For as great an offensive player as Los Angeles Lakers guard Luka Doncic has been ever since he set foot in the NBA, he has been on the receiving end of criticism throughout his career for his play on the other end of the floor. The fact that Doncic averaged 1.8 steals per game with the Lakers and Dallas Mavericks during the 2024-25 regular season doesn’t change that he has plenty of room for improvement on defense.
