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Miami Heat – LeBron James & Defense Make Winning Easy
The NBA’s big night during the regular season is Thursday, and the Miami Heat are a big part of that scheduling. LeBron James is the biggest piece of that train of thought, but when he and his team are at their best from the first minute they step out onto the floor, these contests aren’t that interesting for the entire 48 minutes.
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Miami Heat – LeBron James Gets to Follow Dwyane Wade
The Miami Heat, after two consecutive losses, really needed this kind of game. A chance to clamp down on someone defensively, while LeBron James didn’t need a superstar kind of effort on his own, getting the kind of help he expects to see from Dwyane Wade much more often.
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Miami Heat – Ray Allen Takes Over for LeBron James
It had to happen at one point or another during the season; Ray Allen stealing the spotlight from the real stars of the Miami Heat, Dwyane Wade and LeBron James not just by hitting the game winning shot (which he has already done this season) but by carrying the team on his back in the fourth quarter.
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Miami Heat – LeBron James Needs Dwyane Wade Healthy & Better
The road trip out West was never going to be easy for the Miami Heat, one of the oldest teams in the NBA. While a 6-3 start isn’t anything to be panicking about, the problems on defense, especially when Dwyane Wade and Ray Allen on the floor, have to be keeping Erik Spoelstra and an excellent LeBron James quite a bit worried.
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Miami Heat – The LeBron James We’ve Been Waiting For
In an 82 game season, you have to pace your self, and figure out what battles to give up on right away. LeBron James had his first big game of the season on the third game of the Miami Heat road trip, including a huge fourth quarter, the kind people were always saying he never comes up with, until last postseason.
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Miami Heat – Lazy Game by LeBron James & Dwyane Wade
Having LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh simply doesn’t cut it. Coming in unprepared, possibly lazy to a very tough road game on a difficult six game road trip didn’t leave the Miami Heat a chance, hurt once more by letting a team have its way from beyond the arc.
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Miami Heat – Chris Bosh Can Carry the Load Sometimes
Never forget the guy who got you there. Ray Allen hit his first game winner for the Miami Heat with a corner three and six seconds left on the clock, but it was Chris Bosh scoring 40 points on one of the biggest nights of his career that took care of business in the 119-116 win over the Denver Nuggets.
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Miami Heat – Small Ball Doesn’t Always Work
All summer it’s been talked about how the Miami Heat are going to fully make the transition to small ball, leaving true center off the court and using Chris Bosh as their center and LeBron James as their power-point-forward. It worked great against the Boston Celtics and the Oklahoma City Thunder in the playoffs, so why shouldn’t it keep on clicking?
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Miami Heat – LeBron James Becoming the Greatest Player Ever
After finally winning the NBA title and putting all the “not-clutch” theories and labels behind him, what is there left for LeBron James? More. More NBA title rings, more MVP awards, more scoring, more of everything, of anything that at the end of his career will make he be known as the greatest player of all time.
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Miami Heat – Can LeBron James Get any Better
Here’s a scary thought for the rest of the NBA – LeBron James hasn’t peaked yet, and both he and the Miami Heat might be better this season than they were in last year’s closing stages of the postseason, winning the title after a 4-1 finals series win over the Oklahoma City Thunder.