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Miami Heat shooting guard Tyler Johnson is no stranger at losing teeth, so when he lost his false tooth defending his counterpart Kentavious Caldwell-Pope while playing against the Detroit Pistons, the young man was unfazed. “I didn’t even feel it,” Johnson said of losing his false tooth in Detroit. “Obviously I felt that there was […]

Russell Westbrook is a freak of nature. Standing at 6-foot-3 and a chiseled 200 pounds, the Oklahoma City Thunder star is plenty aware of his athletic gifts and he is not afraid to make the most of them. Matched up against a much-less physically imposing Miami Heat guard Tyler Johnson, Westbrook took the bully-ball approach and squared […]

Earlier this month, it was reported that Los Angeles Lakers forward Metta World Peace had an experience with a ghost who apparently touched him inappropriately during the team’s trip to Oklahoma City. Now, another player, but from a different team, shares his own story about something spooky that happened inside his room at the Skirvin Hilton […]

This summer saw one of the biggest increases in the NBA’s salary cap history. Thanks to the signed broadcast deal the league made, the cap cap ballooned to $94 million. As a result, teams offered huge contracts left and right over the course of the first 96 hours of free agency. For some offers, it was hard […]

It has only been three days of NBA basketball, but we didn’t need long to witness one of the greatest fantasy performances of all time. In a losing effort to the Nuggets, Anthony Davis scored 95.7 fantasy points on Fanduel, exceeding every performance put forth by an NBA player last year (including his own 89 […]

The Miami Heat are scheduled to kick off their preseason when they visit the Washington Wizards on Tuesday night. As expected, there has already been a lot of talk on how the team and its players will show their protest during the singing of the national anthem. In light of this, the team will hold […]

Perhaps the Miami Heat front office’s most criticized decision this offseason is matching the offer sheet that Tyler Johnson had received from the Brooklyn Nets. The deal is priced at $50 million for four years, which is actually decent money when one puts into perspective the kind of splurging that other teams have been doing […]

The Miami Heat have missed Chris Bosh, and Bosh has missed playing for them. The very unfortunate recurring blood clot in his leg forced Bosh to miss the playoffs last season and most of the season the year before too. Tyler Johnson, who signed a four-year, $50 million deal with the Heat this summer, recently […]

The Miami Heat‘s Tyler Johnson has certainly had a summer definitely worth remembering. It can be recalled that when he was still a restricted free agent during the early part of this year’s free agency, he received a qualifying offer from the Brooklyn Nets worth $50 million for four years. Everyone, including himself, thought that he […]

Everyone thought that Tyler Johnson would be playing with the Brooklyn Nets after he signed an offer sheet from them worth $50 million for four years. But when Dwyane Wade left Miami and agreed to play for the Bulls, Miami Heat president Pat Riley decided to match the offer and make the restricted free agent […]

Restricted free agent Tyler Johnson will be retained by Miami Heat after reports that the Heat would match his standing offer surfaced. The Brooklyn Nets‘ initially reached out to Johnson with an offer sheet back-loaded for four-years and $50 million. The final two years of Johnson’s deal would have amounted to $18 million and $19 […]