Joel Anthony

MIAMI For most of the fourth quarter, LeBron James played like a superhero. Then, in the final minute, he handed the game to Indiana with a pair of turnovers. In a series that's beginning to shape up just like last year's drama-filled duel between the...

MIAMI For three years, the Heat has tried to disprove the belief that it's vulnerable against big, physical front lines with offensively skilled post players. But Miami has done nothing to refute that perception in this series, and that combined with...

MIAMI For much of the fourth quarter, LeBron James played like a superhero. Then, in the final minute, he handed the game to Indiana with a pair of turnovers. In a series that's beginning to shape up just like last year's drama-filled duel between the...

-------------------- MAY 25, 2013 Q: Did the Heat run out of steam Friday night or was it just a case of LeBron James trying to do too much? -- Chet. A: The issue is that LeBron had to do too much, with Dwyane Wade in a diminished state and Chris...

    It was somewhere between a LeBron drive, a LeBron dunk, a LeBron block, a LeBron rebound, a LeBron winning jump ball – yes, he even won a jump ball against 7-foot-2 Roy Hibbert – that a voice said the scary truth for the first time:...

   LeBron James gave it everything. And still more was required.    This time, he wound up as something less than hero, with a pair of critical late turnovers.    These Indiana Pacers aren't going anywhere, especially with the next two games of...

MIAMI Erik Spoelstra, mad chemist that he is, started Dexter Pittman in Game 3 of the 2012 Eastern Conference semifinals against the Pacers. Predictably, that lab experiment blew up in Spoelstra's face like the unstable concoction it was, and, if...

Q: Hey Ira, after watching Game 4, I think it is time to shut down Dwyane Wade for the rest of the playoffs. He is completely useless out there with that knee. The Heat have enough depth around LeBron James and Chris Bosh to win a championship. Your...

Q: To keep the core together, the Heat will need to minimize role-player salary. Is Norris Cole playing himself out of their market as a bench player at the same time he is proving himself indispensable to the team? Is next season the last the Heat retain...

Q: Not to completely overreact after one loss, but does the "position-less" approach not work as well against the Bulls? The main benefit of "position-less" is to space the floor and create chances at the rim or corner 3-poiners, and the Bulls do a...

For Miami Heat point guard Mario Chalmers, the highlight of the recent Think Pink Basketball fundraiser was hearing the inspiring stories of breast cancer survivors and their families. "Breast cancer has affected a lot of people in South Florida, but...

   It is a game of truth-or-dare that often can define the Miami Heat's offense and certainly delineate Udonis Haslem's scoring success.    If the mid-range jumper is true, the offense not only opens up for the 10th-year power forward, but the rest of...