Heat Nation

3 weeks ago | heatnation.com | Jesse Cinquini

The Miami Heat faced plenty of challenges throughout the 2024-25 regular season. For one, star forward Jimmy Butler had a messy exit from the team earlier in the year and spent much of the final weeks of his Heat tenure in and out of the lineup due to suspensions. The Heat also found themselves in a rut not long after they parted ways with Butler, who was key to multiple Finals runs that the team made earlier in the decade.

3 weeks ago | heatnation.com | Jesse Cinquini

Former Miami Heat star LeBron James’ agent Rich Paul made some recent comments on the team’s Big 3 era in the early 2010s that appear to have ruffled the feathers of at least one longtime Heat figure. Controversially, Paul claimed that Miami actually never had a Big 3 and argued that big man Chris Bosh had to sacrifice a whole lot to make those teams click.

3 weeks ago | heatnation.com | Jesse Cinquini

International basketball prospect Ben Saraf just recently declared for the upcoming 2025 NBA Draft. The Israeli guard informed ESPN of his career move on Friday. According to Greg Sylvander of Five Reasons Sports, Saraf is a player that the Miami Heat organization is already quite familiar with. Allegedly, the Heat have done “extensive homework” on Saraf with the start of the 2025 NBA Draft still a ways away.

4 weeks ago | heatnation.com | Jesse Cinquini

When the golden days of Miami Heat basketball are brought up, there are likely three players that come to mind for plenty of folks: LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. Miami reached four consecutive NBA Finals and won two championships when the Heat employed what many consider to have been a Big 3. In the eyes of James’ agent Rich Paul, however, the Heat never actually had a Big 3. He noted that Bosh saw his role get relegated quite a bit compared to his time with the Toronto Raptors.

1 month ago | heatnation.com | Jesse Cinquini

On Wednesday, the No. 9 and No. 10 seeds in the Eastern Conference — the Chicago Bulls and Miami Heat — will duke it out in a play-in game. The losing team will see its season come to a close, while the team that wins will move on to face the loser of the other Eastern Conference play-in matchup between the Atlanta Hawks and Orlando Magic. Unfortunately for the Bulls, they will in all likelihood be without point guard Lonzo Ball for the important contest against Miami.