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Playing for a new team is not the easiest of tasks as it means learning to play with new teammates, coaches, and system. That was what James Johnson experienced last year with the Miami Heat and now in his second season in South Beach, he admitted that he is still continuing to understand his role […]

The Miami Heat will get their starting center Hassan Whiteside back on the fold tonight against their in-state rivals Orlando Magic, according to Barry Jackson of The Miami Herald. Whiteside had been out with an illness for Saturday’s tilt against the new-look Detroit Pistons, as the Heat dropped their third straight games after losses to […]

The joy of Philadelphia Eagles supporters on Sunday is beyond words. From fans of all ages, from all walks of life, regardless of gender and stature, they all rejoiced as their team finally won the Super Bowl for the first time in franchise history. Even professional athletes from different sports who trace their roots to […]

The Miami Heat are trying to figure out what do with the NBA trade deadline, and there has been some talk that Hassan Whiteside is at the center of those thoughts. But it looks like the team may not move Whiteside at the deadline after all, per Sean Deveney of Sporting News. At this time of […]

The 2014 NBA finals saw one of the worst beatings in any championship series on all four major US sports leagues. There have been a couple of sweeps in the World Series and ugly blowouts in the Super Bowl, but none might compare to how unexpectedly one-sided the San Antonio Spurs-Miami Heat matchup was from […]

The Miami Heat’s Hassan Whiteside and Detroit Pistons’ Blake Griffin are two similar players. No, not by their style of play. Both players are franchise superstars for their respective teams. Both players have tackled adversity and injuries in order to get where they are today, and both players have experienced trades that impacted their careers. […]

Miami Heat point guard Goran Dragic was named to the NBA All-Star Game as a replacement for Cleveland Cavaliers center Kevin Love, who broke his hand and will miss up to eight weeks. There are arguments that other Eastern Conference players should have made it over Dragic, but that’s not really the point. The real point […]

Miami Heat shooting guard Dion Waiters recently underwent successful surgery on Jan. 23 to repair the instability in his left ankle, as well as a preexisting navicular bone fracture. The former Syracuse stand-out has been ruled out for the remainder of this season. As a result, the NBA has awarded the Heat with a $5.5 […]

Centers Hassan Whiteside from the Miami Heat and Joel Embiid from the Philadelphia 76ers are set to face each other tomorrow night at Wells Fargo Center in the City of Brotherly Love. These players have an ongoing beef both on and off the court. Before heading to face the Sixers tomorrow and fly to Detroit […]

Dwyane Wade will go down as one of the best shooting guards to have ever played in the NBA. As most hoops fans know, Wade joined the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2017 offseason, but most will remember him from his days with the Miami Heat. As it turns out, Wade, now 36 years of age, […]

With the NBA All-Star game fast approaching, team Stephen Curry and Team LeBron James are gearing up for a very entertaining showdown. But James will have a new player on his team because Kevin Love broke his hand a couple of days ago and will be about up to two months. That new players is […]

The LeBron James sweepstakes has already started, and the 2017-18 season isn’t even close to being over. It’s already been reported that James would be willing to take a meeting with the defending champion Golden State Warriors this summer during free agency. That news basically broke the entire internet, and now everyone is thinking the […]

There has been a lot of internet talk about the Miami Heat recently. Tonight, they have a chance to grab hold of the Eastern Conference’s third seed away from the Cleveland Cavaliers. Coincidentally, the Cavs host the Heat tonight at Quicken Loans Arena. But their team success is not the only reason they have prompted […]

Memphis Grizzlies multi-fasceted forward Tyreke Evans has started to draw interest from many teams around the NBA as this Feb. 8 trade deadline nears. Among them are the Cleveland Cavaliers, Houston Rockets, Oklahoma City Thunder, Boston Celtics, New Orleans Pelicans, and the Miami Heat, according to Keith Pompey of The Philadelphia Inquirer. Recent reports indicated the […]

The Milwaukee Bucks have been one of the first teams to wheel-and-deal this season, snatching an estranged Eric Bledsoe from the Phoenix Suns and making him their starting point guard. But they might not be done making moves, as they are reportedly eyeing an elite-caliber center in the L.A. Clippers’ DeAndre Jordan and Miami Heat’s […]

Although the Dallas Mavericks’ fourth-quarter rally came up just short on Monday night against the Miami Heat, rising star rookie guard Dennis Smith Jr. of the Mavs had quite an impressive play. It came at the expense of Heat guard Josh Richardson in the fourth quarter. With just under three minutes to go in regulation […]

There were some complaints through social media about the Miami Heat not having a single player selected to the 2018 NBA All-Star game. Some believed it should have been Hassan Whiteside, while others say Goran Dragic was more deserving of the accolade. But Rick Carlisle, the Dallas Mavericks’ head coach and Head of the NBA […]

We are just 10 days away from the NBA trade deadline and there is still no resolution on the DeAndre Jordan situation. Jordan is by far the biggest name in trade talks this year, with his name appearing in trade rumor headlines as early as last month. The Ringer’s Kevin O’Connor spoke about Jordan and […]

The trade deadline comes closer with every day that goes by. We have yet to see teams be as aggressive as usual, but that does not mean plans and conversations do not occur behind the scenes. A team that might wait until the very last day before the deadline before making a deal are the Miami […]

The tension between the referees and NBA players have reached a breaking point in this season. Coaches, players, and league executives have noticed the drama between the two parties and are desperately trying to formulate a solution to the toxic situation. Meanwhile, Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra believes that some of this tension is because […]

The Miami Heat had a golden chance to get back to their winning ways on Thursday against the Sacramento Kings. Leading by a point in the final seconds of the game, the team only had to make one stop and force a miss from their opponents. They did just that as Bogdan Bogdanovic missed a […]

The Miami Heat have been one of the most surprising teams in the NBA. They are currently 27-21, ranked fourth in the Eastern Conference. They are even two games behind the third-place Cleveland Cavaliers. Ever since LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, and Chris Bosh left the Heat, the team has never been the same. What used […]

3-pointers are not exactly something that’s normally associated with the Miami Heat. To many, they are just another mid-tier Eastern Conference squad still looking to join the ranks of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Boston Celtics, and Toronto Raptors. Glancing at their personnel and style of play, it also doesn’t appear that they are anywhere near dangerous from […]

Before Hassan Whiteside turned out to be the player that he is today with the Miami Heat, he was once part of the Memphis Grizzlies back in 2014. However, they cut him twice in October and November, just two days after signing him. The team’s head coach back then was Dave Joerger, who recently recalled […]

Goran Dragic can’t wrap his head around yet another All-Star snub, failing to make the cut one more time, despite his team sitting in a comfortable fourth spot in the East. “I don’t understand this anymore because back in the day with the Suns, I had the statistics and they said our record is not […]

Miami Heat guard Wayne Ellington plans to take part in this season’s 3-point contest during All-Star weekend in February, marking his first appearance in the event, according to a report from ESPN’s Chris Haynes. Miami Heat guard Wayne Ellington plans to participate in the 3-Point Contest at All-Star Weekend, league sources tell ESPN. — Chris […]

With the All-Star reserves now announced, Hassan Whiteside has once again missed out on the call to be among the Eastern Conference’s best. The Miami Heat was snubbed in All-Star selections this year again, and for the first time in 25 years, the NBA failed to select an All-Star from a team that had been […]

After dropping several sneak-peeks over the past few weeks, the Miami Heat officially unveiled their Miami Vice-themed City Edition uniforms on Tuesday. Nike’s City Edition uniforms are meant to have flavor, but also a significant meaning. Miami’s new gear certainly has both. Via Ira Winderman of sun-sentinel.com: “The Vice uniform is our ode to the […]

Miami Heat shooting guard Dion Waiters prepared for season-ending surgery by watching his hometown Philadelphia Eagles roll over the Minnesota Vikings 38-7 in the NFC Championship Game, punching a ticket to face the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl for the second time in 13 years. The 6-foot-4 wing shared the update on his […]

The Miami Heat were in desperate need of a late surge if they were to get back into the win column on Saturday night versus the Charlotte Hornets. Fortunately, power forward James Johnson managed to give them the boost they needed. The Hornets had been in control down the stretch after being up by five […]

We’re only three weeks away from the NBA trade deadline and while several members of the media are prepping for a quiet afternoon on February 8th, keeping an eye on team circumstances and quiet rumblings around the league leads our team here at ClutchPoints to believe there’s still plenty opportunity among the NBA landscape for […]

It has been a good stretch of games for the Miami Heat’s Goran Dragic as of late, and the NBA is not letting it slide. The league is naming Dragic the Eastern Conference Player of the Week for games played from Jan. 8 to Jan. 14. Per the Heat’s official announcement: “The NBA announced today that […]

The Miami Heat suffered a huge blow on Monday as Tyler Johnson went down with an ankle injury in the third quarter. He was not able to leave the court on his own and had to be taken off in a wheelchair which was not a good sign at all for the South Beach faithful. […]

Dion Waiters finally decided to undergo ankle surgery and miss out the rest of the season. Because of this, the Miami Heat applied for a $5.5 million disabled-player exception from the NBA. The team’s action made sense especially that the exception is near half of Waiters’ salary for the 2017-18 season. However, the exception would […]

Since returning from a left knee injury, Hassan Whiteside has played in 10 games for the Miami Heat. The starting center is yet to play 30 minutes or more in any of those 10 contests. He averages 24 minutes per game in this span, contributing 12.2 points, 9.8 rebounds, one assist, and two blocks on […]

Erik Spoelstra’s Miami Heat has been the hottest team in the NBA lately. They have won seven straight games, and are now fourth place in the Eastern Conference standings. Specifically, they are 1.5 games behind the Cleveland Cavaliers for the 3rd spot. The Heat are defying all of the odds set against them this season, […]

Last Tuesday’s game between the Miami Heat and Toronto Raptors turned out to be a hotly contested one as tensions ran high and there were even moments where players failed to keep theirs in check. Following the exchange of punches between James Johnson and Serge Ibaka in the third quarter, both sides seemed to have […]

It was a night to remember for Miami Heat rookie center Bam Adebayo, to say the least. In what was a hotly-contested showdown versus the Toronto Raptors on Tuesday night, he may have burned the brightest with 16 points, 15 rebounds, and five blocks. However, the most exciting aspect of the game for Adebayo was getting […]

After missing the Miami Heat’s last 15 games, Justise Winslow could be back in action soon and is targeting Sunday’s game against the Milwaukee Bucks for his possible return, according to Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sun Sentinel. Also, Sunday apparently is setting up as the likely return date for Justise Winslow. Miami’s next […]