2010-11 NBA Basketball Season
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If you chose a NBA ring ceremony over a date you have been forward to......you have issues.....LOL!
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This Heat team has the feel of a rock band in a way- a team that will feel like a rock star band. Wherever they go, there'll be fans excited just to see Miami.
Salsa is familiar with this- he covered the Jordan-era Bulls at their height of popularity and fan adulation.
Salsa is familiar with this- he covered the Jordan-era Bulls at their height of popularity and fan adulation.
Wade was cleared to start practice with then team on Friday.
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Well.....yeah I am but I won't be able to watch it anyway unless it is on TNT or something.
it will be on TNT but doubt they will show the whole ring presentation, for that you need NBA PASS to watch on FSW
My local cable company just started carrying the NBA channel unscrambled as part of its "Lifeline" tier. Does that channel carry any games?
AWESOME Lebron commercial causing a stir....
...I LOVED this commercial and reminiscencent of the Charles Barkley "I am not a roll model" commercial! I think a definate worth a look....
LeBron James causing a stir with new Nike commercial - NBA News - FOX Sports on MSN
...I LOVED this commercial and reminiscencent of the Charles Barkley "I am not a roll model" commercial! I think a definate worth a look....
LeBron James causing a stir with new Nike commercial - NBA News - FOX Sports on MSN
Say what you will about Lebron, Bosh and Wade....but this was a nice sacrifice...
Miami Heat's sacrifices are for love of the game
Udonis Haslem meant so much to Dwyane Wade that Wade sacrificed millions to keep his friend in Miami.
"Our bond is beyond basketball. It's love. It's not business. It's family. I would do anything for Dwyane," said Heat forward Udonis Haslem, left, about teammate Dwyane Wade, right.
By DAN LE BATARD
dlebatard@MiamiHerald.com
There's an uncommon story pulsating at the heart of this Miami Heat team, somehow buried beneath the angry noise and burning jerseys smoldering all around LeBron James.
What about the other hour? The one that wasn't televised?
Is it possible in this hostile climate, around the most hated team in America, for people to even notice the love story?
``It's confusing and unfortunate to me that people don't really see what we did,'' Miami's Udonis Haslem said.
Haslem, loyal employee, team player and proud Miamian, was on the way to what he thought was his exit interview, to thank Pat Riley for discovering him and to say goodbye. The Denver Nuggets and Dallas Mavericks were offering him $34 million, and Haslem was telling his buddy Dwyane Wade by text that all his good time in Miami was now done.
Haslem knew Miami didn't have enough money remaining to compete with Dallas and Denver after signing James, Wade and Chris Bosh, and he couldn't take a one-year minimum contract in Miami with his ill mother dying and family members to support. He had taken millions less once to re-sign here and remain near his beloved Liberty City. He couldn't ignore an extra $30 million now, on perhaps his last contract, no matter how much he loved this city and organization and Wade.
``You'll always be my brother,'' Haslem texted Wade as he walked into Riley's office to say goodbye.
UNPRECEDENTED
Something that doesn't have a lot of precedent in American sports happened then. Wade called Bosh and asked him to cut $15 million off his salary for Haslem. Wade called James and asked him to do the same. Bosh and James barely knew Haslem. Just a few short conversations here and there. But Wade told them this team needed someone hungry and gritty and unselfish like Haslem, and promised to cut $17 million out of his own contract to make it happen, too.
``They said `I'm in' without hesitating,'' Wade said Sunday.
What?
``No questions asked,'' Wade said.
None?
``Not one,'' Wade said. ``They respected UD as a player. And they trusted me as a leader and friend.''
Haslem was in the middle of what he thought was his exit meeting with Riley when Haslem's agent came into the room. Heat owner Micky Arison walked in, too, with Heat numbers savant Andy Elisburg, all of them working to figure out how to get Haslem to $20 million and make room for Haslem's ex-University of Florida teammate Mike Miller, too. Haslem was asked to please leave the room.
``Everything changed in that one hour,'' Haslem says. ``I was outside, and I didn't know what was going on. I figured I was pretty much gone.''
Then his agent emerged with an offer $14 million less than what was being offered in Dallas and Denver.
``It took me less than five minutes to accept it,'' Haslem says.
Haslem reached out to James and Bosh after his agent explained what they had done. ``Thank you,'' he told them. ``You didn't make a mistake. I won't let you down.''
And he called Wade with words not often heard in this muscled world.
``I love you,'' he said.
This was hardly about charity. Wade was very close friends with Dorell Wright, too, and he didn't do this for him. Wade wanted someone on his side who, like Matt Damon's friends in Goodwill Hunting, would take a bat to the head for him. He figured this team -- ``the most hated sports team of my era,'' as Haslem calls it -- would need a rugged man like that
Read more: Miami Heat's sacrifices are for love of the game - Dan Le Batard - MiamiHerald.com
Miami Heat's sacrifices are for love of the game
Udonis Haslem meant so much to Dwyane Wade that Wade sacrificed millions to keep his friend in Miami.
"Our bond is beyond basketball. It's love. It's not business. It's family. I would do anything for Dwyane," said Heat forward Udonis Haslem, left, about teammate Dwyane Wade, right.
By DAN LE BATARD
dlebatard@MiamiHerald.com
There's an uncommon story pulsating at the heart of this Miami Heat team, somehow buried beneath the angry noise and burning jerseys smoldering all around LeBron James.
What about the other hour? The one that wasn't televised?
Is it possible in this hostile climate, around the most hated team in America, for people to even notice the love story?
``It's confusing and unfortunate to me that people don't really see what we did,'' Miami's Udonis Haslem said.
Haslem, loyal employee, team player and proud Miamian, was on the way to what he thought was his exit interview, to thank Pat Riley for discovering him and to say goodbye. The Denver Nuggets and Dallas Mavericks were offering him $34 million, and Haslem was telling his buddy Dwyane Wade by text that all his good time in Miami was now done.
Haslem knew Miami didn't have enough money remaining to compete with Dallas and Denver after signing James, Wade and Chris Bosh, and he couldn't take a one-year minimum contract in Miami with his ill mother dying and family members to support. He had taken millions less once to re-sign here and remain near his beloved Liberty City. He couldn't ignore an extra $30 million now, on perhaps his last contract, no matter how much he loved this city and organization and Wade.
``You'll always be my brother,'' Haslem texted Wade as he walked into Riley's office to say goodbye.
UNPRECEDENTED
Something that doesn't have a lot of precedent in American sports happened then. Wade called Bosh and asked him to cut $15 million off his salary for Haslem. Wade called James and asked him to do the same. Bosh and James barely knew Haslem. Just a few short conversations here and there. But Wade told them this team needed someone hungry and gritty and unselfish like Haslem, and promised to cut $17 million out of his own contract to make it happen, too.
``They said `I'm in' without hesitating,'' Wade said Sunday.
What?
``No questions asked,'' Wade said.
None?
``Not one,'' Wade said. ``They respected UD as a player. And they trusted me as a leader and friend.''
Haslem was in the middle of what he thought was his exit meeting with Riley when Haslem's agent came into the room. Heat owner Micky Arison walked in, too, with Heat numbers savant Andy Elisburg, all of them working to figure out how to get Haslem to $20 million and make room for Haslem's ex-University of Florida teammate Mike Miller, too. Haslem was asked to please leave the room.
``Everything changed in that one hour,'' Haslem says. ``I was outside, and I didn't know what was going on. I figured I was pretty much gone.''
Then his agent emerged with an offer $14 million less than what was being offered in Dallas and Denver.
``It took me less than five minutes to accept it,'' Haslem says.
Haslem reached out to James and Bosh after his agent explained what they had done. ``Thank you,'' he told them. ``You didn't make a mistake. I won't let you down.''
And he called Wade with words not often heard in this muscled world.
``I love you,'' he said.
This was hardly about charity. Wade was very close friends with Dorell Wright, too, and he didn't do this for him. Wade wanted someone on his side who, like Matt Damon's friends in Goodwill Hunting, would take a bat to the head for him. He figured this team -- ``the most hated sports team of my era,'' as Haslem calls it -- would need a rugged man like that
Read more: Miami Heat's sacrifices are for love of the game - Dan Le Batard - MiamiHerald.com
I feel like the only guy in America who does not thinking the Lakers will represent the West in the NBA Finals.
My NBA Finals prediction- a 2006 rematch of Heat vs. Mavericks.
(Yes, I'm NOT picking the Lakers to win the West.)
(Yes, I'm NOT picking the Lakers to win the West.)
