Heat, Spurs to Play for NBA Title
MIAMI (AP) — No more sitting out stars, and for the San Antonio Spurs, no more sitting around. Finally, the NBA Finals matchup is set, and the Miami Heat will either win a second straight championship...
View ArticleRest Or Rust For Spurs In Finals
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Rest or rust? The San Antonio Spurs will answer the question when they step on the court for Game 1 of the NBA Finals against the Miami Heat Thursday night. The Spurs have been off...
View ArticleHeat’s Rebounding Coming Back To Hurt Team
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – When Miami Heat team president Pat Riley constructed this year’s version of the Heat, critics pointed to the only perceived flaw the team had: no big man to keep the Heat competitive...
View ArticleHeat Fans May Cheer Against Marlins
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – The Miami Heat are trying to become the best team in basketball with a second straight NBA championship in the 2013 NBA Finals, but is it possible Heat fans should also be concerned...
View ArticleEastern Conference Is Indiana, Miami And A Host Of Bad Teams
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – The Miami Heat and the Indiana Pacers are the cream of the crop in the NBA’s Eastern Conference, but the separation between those two teams and the rest of the conference is striking...
View ArticleHeat & Pacers To Tangle For First Time Tuesday
INDIANAPOLIS (CBSMiami) – The three-time defending Eastern Conference champion Miami Heat have looked at times like they are simply managing their time waiting for the playoffs. But Tuesday night in...
View ArticlePacers Rally In 2nd Half To Beat Heat, 90-84
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Roy Hibbert scored 24 points and Paul George had 15 of his 17 points during a second-half rally to lead the Pacers past Miami 90-84 Tuesday night in a matchup of the Eastern...
View ArticleHeat Has Tall Task Trying To Stop Hibbert
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Finding a weakness in the Miami Heat has perplexed opponents for the last two years, but the Indiana Pacers may have solved the problem by driving a 7’2”, 260 pound hole through the...
View ArticleLeBron scores 30, Heat Roll Past Jazz 117-94
MIAMI (AP) — LeBron James finished with 30 points, nine rebounds and nine assists despite sitting some of the second half after twisting his left ankle, Dwyane Wade added 27 points and the Miami Heat...
View ArticleLeBron Questionable As Pacers Come To Town
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – The Miami Heat don’t have much to prove to themselves, but questions are popping up around the team when it comes to Miami’s ability to knock out the Indiana Pacers. Miami’s job...
View ArticleSick Vogel, Sore LeBron Both In For Heat-Pacers
MIAMI (AP) — LeBron James is dealing with a stiff ankle. Frank Vogel was slowed after eating spaghetti. Neither malady was bad enough to keep them from the Miami-Indiana matchup of Eastern Conference...
View ArticleLate Run Lifts Heat Past Pacers 97-94 In Showdown
MIAMI (AP) — Dwyane Wade scored 32 points, Ray Allen hit a go-ahead 3-pointer with just under a minute left and the Miami Heat erased a 15-point deficit in the second half to beat the Indiana Pacers...
View ArticleHeat & Pacers Set The Bar For Eastern Conference
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – If the last two games between the Miami Heat and Indiana Pacers are a sign of what’s coming if the two teams meet in the Eastern Conference Finals; it’s going to be one fun, but...
View ArticleWeather Woes Keep Raptors In Miami Extra Day
MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) — The Toronto Raptors are staying in South Florida an extra day in order to avoid weather woes with the snow and extreme cold in the Midwest. Instead of departing for Indianapolis...
View ArticlePacers Signing Of Bynum Not A Worry For Heat
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Lost amidst the hubbub of Super Bowl weekend, the Indiana Pacers signed center Andrew Bynum. The signing put a third seven-foot, at one-time star, on the Pacers roster and continued...
View ArticlePacers Acquire Turner To Topple Heat
INDIANAPOLIS (CBSMiami) – The Indiana Pacers continued to go all-in for their quest to overtake the Miami Heat Thursday when the team struck a trade deadline deal to acquire Evan Turner and Lavoy Allen...
View ArticleHeat Lost For Answers On Recent Losing Streak
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – After losing again over the weekend, the questions surrounding the Miami Heat ahead of the playoffs are growing as the team tries to stop a streak of seven losses in the last 11...
View ArticleAfter 3 Months Apart, Heat, Pacers To Meet Again
MIAMI (AP) — Heat forward Chris Bosh has a confession: Games at this time of year simply mean more to him than games in December. Not exactly shocking, of course. But when so much hubbub surrounded the...
View ArticleHeat & Pacers Set For Big Late Season Clash Wednesday
INDIANAPOLIS (CBSMiami) – The Miami Heat can pull even in the loss column with the Indiana Pacers this year if LeBron and company can go into Bankers Life Fieldhouse Wednesday night and knock off...
View ArticleHeat Likely To Have Wade, not Allen vs Pacers
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Dwayne Wade looks as though he’s ready to play Wednesday night at Indiana. Ray Allen may miss out on one of the biggest games of the NBA season. After a morning shootaround in...
View ArticlePacers Use Rally Late To Beat Heat 84-83
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Paul George scored 23 points and Roy Hibbert had 21, leading the Indiana Pacers back from a seven-point fourth-quarter deficit for an 84-83 victory over the Miami Heat on Wednesday...
View ArticleHeat On Cusp Of 1st Place With Raptors Coming To Town
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Despite posting just a 9-8 record in the month of March, Miami has a chance to do something not many thought was possible a few weeks ago, move into first place in the Eastern...
View ArticleHeat Pull Ahead Of Pacers With 9 Games Left
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – The Miami Heat made it somewhere Monday night the team hasn’t been since the beginning of the season, first place in the Eastern Conference. Despite missing Dwyane Wade and Ray...
View ArticlePacers Looking Up At The Heat
INDIANA (CBSMiami) – As the Miami Heat appear to be close to hitting their playoff stride, the Heat’s top competition in the Eastern Conference appears to be collapsing under the pressure of trying to...
View ArticleHeat, Pacers Face Off In Biggest Game Of The Season
MIAMI (AP) — For the last six weeks, Indiana and Miami haven’t exactly looked like NBA title contenders. The Heat have lost 11 of their last 21 games. The Pacers, they’ve dropped 12 of their last 20....
View ArticleHamstring Injury Scraps Wade For Pacers Game
MIAMI (AP) — Dwyane Wade has been ruled out of Miami’s Eastern Conference showdown Friday night against the Indiana Pacers. It’s the ninth straight game Wade has missed while working his way back from...
View ArticleHeat Back Atop East, Beat Pacers 98-86
MIAMI (AP) — For most of the season, the Miami Heat were chasing the Indiana Pacers. On Friday, they just blew by them. Control of the Eastern Conference again belongs to the Heat, after LeBron James...
View ArticleLike A Year Ago, Pacers Face Heat In East Finals
WASHINGTON (AP) — Through all of it — the late-season swoon, the questions about team unity, the deficits in the first two playoff rounds — this is what Paul George and the Indiana Pacers wanted. All...
View ArticleMiami Looks To Rebound From Game 1 Loss At Indiana
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — LeBron James is ready to help the Miami Heat get even against the Indiana Pacers. After spending Sunday night and Monday morning sifting through Sunday’s Game 1 loss, the Heat are...
View ArticleMiami Heat Ready To Rebound Against The Pacers
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — LeBron James is ready to help the Miami Heat get even against the Indiana Pacers. After spending Sunday night and Monday morning sifting through Sunday’s Game 1 loss, the Heat are...
View ArticleJames Helps Heat Beat Pacers 87-83 In Game 2
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — LeBron James scored six straight points to spark a decisive 12-2 run, and the Miami Heat beat the Indiana Pacers 87-83 on Tuesday night to leave the Eastern Conference finals tied...
View ArticlePacers Facing Misfortunes After Game 2 Loss Against Heat
MIAMI (CBSMiami) — Indiana Pacers forward Paul George has been diagnosed with a concussion following the Pacers loss in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals against Miami. About half way through...
View ArticleHeat Resume Practice Prepared To Defend Home Court Against Pacers
MIAMI (CBSMiami) — The Miami Heat returned to the practice court on Thursday as they prepare for Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals this Saturday night. The Heat are fresh off of their big road...
View ArticleGeorge Expected To Play, Heat Thinking About Oden
MIAMI (AP) — Indiana’s Paul George will play in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals, which comes as no surprise to the Miami Heat. They were expecting him there all along. The Pacers announced...
View ArticlePacers Seeking Breakthrough, Heat Aim To Improve
MIAMI (AP) — In the 2011 NBA Finals, LeBron James spent too much time for his liking talking about his purported rivalry with an easily excitable guard named Stevenson. There’s a new rival now. His...
View ArticleAndersen Inactive, Lewis Starts Game 4 For Heat
MIAMI (AP) — Heat forward Chris Andersen is inactive for Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals against Indiana with a bruised left thigh. Andersen has been dealing with an array of nagging aches and...
View ArticleWith Pacers Down 3-1, Vogel Wants Simple Approach
MIAMI (AP) — Frank Vogel stood with his back against a wall, seeming perfectly comfortable. He’s hoping his Indiana Pacers can do the same. The Pacers’ season of great expectation is now in great...
View ArticleHeat Looking To Advance To Fourth Straight NBA Finals
MIAMI (AP) Frank Vogel stood with his back against a wall, seeming perfectly comfortable. He’s hoping his Indiana Pacers can do the same. The Pacers’ season of great expectation is now in great...
View ArticleWill Game 6 Be A Bounce-Back For LeBron James?
MIAMI (AP) — There’s one area where the Indiana Pacers and Miami Heat agree. LeBron James, they insist, will be better in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals. Everyone, it seems, is waiting to see...
View ArticleHeat Falls To Pacers 99-91
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Tyreke Evans hit five 3-pointers and scored a season-high 23 points off the bench, leading the Indiana Pacers to a 99-91 victory over the...
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