NBA Negotiations Hit Critical Phase
The 2011-2012 NBA season may hang in the balance when labor talks resume Friday in New York.
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The 2011-2012 NBA season may hang in the balance when labor talks resume Friday in New York.
With the prospects of a full NBA season looking increasingly grim, the Big Three of the Miami Heat are set to bring an All-Star atmosphere to South Florida for a charity game.
The National Basketball Players Association was supposed to gather in Miami on Tuesday for a union meeting to discuss the ongoing NBA lockout. Instead, the NBPA will be traveling to New York for another round of bargaining sessions.
For the first time in several years, the National Basketball Association has postponed training camps indefinitely and canceled 43 preseason games as the owners' lockout of the players continues.
The NBA and the Miami Heat are coming off of the most successful season in years. But, other teams are not as lucky and NBA commissioner David Stern said after the lockout is ended with a new collective bargaining agreement, league contraction is on the table.
Dwyane Wade has decided he cannot take a year away from basketball and if the NBA goes that route, Wade has decided to go somewhere else.
LeBron James says he is so "optimistic" that the coming NBA season will be played that he is not considering any possible international options -- except for the 2012 Olympics.
When the NFL lockout was in its deepest point, both sides were positive that a deal could be worked out in time to save the season. The same can't be said of the NBA.
While the Miami Dolphins have taken the field in preparations for the upcoming season, the Miami Heat remain in a deep freeze as the NBA lockout is showing no signs of ending in the next few months.
Despite their being no scheduled meetings to resolve the NBA lockout, the league released its schedule Tuesday. Assuming the season starts on time, the Miami Heat will open the season in New York against the Knicks.
Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade recently took to Twitter to say that he was looking for a job during the NBA lockout. While Wade is used to making bucket after bucket on the court, a new job offer may have him dealing with making a new type of bucket.
Outspoken former Miami Heat superstar Shaquille O'Neal wasted no time finding a new career after retiring from the NBA. In a move that will make the NBA cringe, Shaq is set to join Charles Barkley and the TNT studio broadcast team, according to Darren Rovell of CNBC.
Friday will mark the one-year anniversary of the decision that shook the South Florida sports scene, and the NBA to the core. It was a simple declaration from one player that fundamentally altered the NBA landscape, and brought basketball back to the top in South Florida.
There's NFL news, the NBA is locked out, the Marlins still suck, and sports writers are desperate for something to write about, including this one. So let's hit this agenda like a Marlins fastball.
The Miami Heat, led by the Big Three, led an NBA renaissance last season taking the league to levels not seen in years. Fans and media were excited about the league and looking forward to next year.
The Miami Heat had two glaring needs heading into the 2011 NBA Draft: point guard and center. While the center position couldn't be addressed, the Heat traded into the first round to land point guard Norris Cole out of Cleveland State University.
Miami Heat fans have gotten used to being able to pass on watching the NBA Draft while Pat Riley has been in charge. With the 2011 NBA Draft just hours away, the Heat has all of one pick in the draft at the top of the second-round.
I hate to say I told you so, but all the good feelings from the Marlins victory Thursday night, yeah, lasted all of one night as the Fish dropped another game in June bringing their record in the month to I believe 2-20. Plus, the NBA Draft is tonight, who will the Heat take?
He may have been the forgotten big man in the Miami Heat's rotation in the NBA Finals, but Zydrunas Ilgauskas knows a good thing when he sees it. Big Z has decided to exercise his player option and will return to the Heat's lineup next season.
While the NFL may be getting closer to ending its nearly 100-day lockout, the NBA is heading towards a lockout faster than LeBron James on a fast break.
It's not quite to the scale of "Dewey Defeats Truman," but Macy's has quite a bit of egg on their face Monday after taking out a full page ad in the Miami Herald congratulating the Heat on their victory. That's right, the victory that actually went to the Dallas Mavericks.
Going to work Monday morning proved to be quite difficult in Miami after the Heat's crushing loss to end their pursuit of an NBA championship.
The sting of losing the NBA Finals may still be fresh with the Miami Heat and their fans, but the team now must look to next season and learning from the lessons they faced during the 2011 NBA season.
The Heat face a win-or-else Game 6 of the NBA Finals against Dallas tonight. The Mavericks hold a 3-2 advantage in the best-of-seven showdown thanks to Thursday night's Game 5 victory on their home court.
Four years ago, LeBron James watched the San Antonio Spurs celebrate an NBA championship on his now-former home floor in Cleveland.
A man says his girlfriend has been held at a Miramar ICE facility for 4 days with no shower access or edible food.
Inter Miami co-owner Jorge Mas says the club followed league rules to sign new player Casemiro, despite an ongoing MLS investigation into tampering allegations.
Sunshine Health paused adding new practitioners in 2025, compounding state contract cuts that reduced therapy access.
Consular General Yverick Delerme Cyril is encouraging Haitians to make sure they have proper identification on their person at all times.
The incident took place in the 4000 block of Southwest 15th Street in Pompano Beach, deputies say.
A man says his girlfriend has been held at a Miramar ICE facility for 4 days with no shower access or edible food.
Inter Miami co-owner Jorge Mas says the club followed league rules to sign new player Casemiro, despite an ongoing MLS investigation into tampering allegations.
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CBS Miami is hosting a The Price Is Right contestant search at Toyota of Hollywood on Aug. 28.
Consular General Yverick Delerme Cyril is encouraging Haitians to make sure they have proper identification on their person at all times.
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A former prison guard trainee has been sentenced to death for the 2019 execution-style killings of five women inside a Florida bank.
Florida coach Billy Napier is getting a fourth season to try to get the Gators back to their winning ways.
A Florida man has filed a federal lawsuit against Jacksonville sheriff's officers who severely beat him last year after he ran from a traffic stop.
The Marion County Sheriff's deputy told authorities that he accidentally shot and killed his girlfriend while cleaning his gun.
If confirmed by the full Senate, Dr. Erica Schwartz would become the 22nd director of the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
CBS News has learned that four of the nation's largest Latino civic organizations are joining forces for the first time, combining their voter outreach operations ahead of the crucial 2026 midterms.
President Trump said Todd Blanche will remain acting attorney general as a holdup on his nomination continues.
The Trump administration on Thursday reiterated its view that China's alleged efforts to collect millions of American voter registration files constituted election interference.
President Trump is asking the Supreme Court to throw out an $83.3 million defamation judgment the writer E. Jean Carroll won against him.
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As Florida attorney general, it was Moody and her office that approved the diversion of $10 million of taxpayer money to the Hope Florida Foundation
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Dotie Joseph said after talking with neighbors and looking at the field, she thinks she has plenty of experience to assume the governorship.
Since May, more than 11,000 cases of illness caused by the parasite cyclospora have been reported in 41 states. This comes after the Trump administration drastically cut FDA and CDC staff, prompting one expert to call this summer's outbreaks "a national wake-up call."
The case accuses OpenAI of practicing medicine without a license and failing to safeguard users seeking health advice.
Taylor Farms said none of its branded salads or kits contain the iceberg lettuce associated with the outbreak.
A lettuce supplier to fast-food giant Taco Bell has been linked to a nationwide cyclosporiasis outbreak that has sickened thousands of people, the CDC said.
Officials are still searching for the source of the outbreak, prompting consumers to seek advice on social media about which foods to avoid.
AARP is sounding the alarm because it is so easy to fall for these schemes, but there are simple things everyone can do to protect themselves.
A lawsuit filed late last month took Chicago-based McDonald's to task over the McRib sandwich, calling its name a form of false advertising.
Florida insurance policyholders could be seeing some form of relief in their wallets thanks to market reforms made statewide, Gov. Ron DeSantis said.
The company said Tuesday that 85% of its retail products and "nearly all" of its school offerings are already made without "certified colors."
Less than two days after Delta Air Lines offered $30,000 to each passenger on board the flight that crashed and flipped in Toronto on Monday afternoon, the company is facing its first two lawsuits in the incident — and they likely won't be the last.
Four women say Hollywood star Jared Leto committed sexual crimes against them when they were teenagers, in interviews with the BBC.
Carly Simon, the singer known for 1970s hits like "You're So Vain," announced she has Parkinson's disease and also was treated for basal cell carcinoma.
Paramount Skydance on Friday said it would delay the deal until as late as June 2027.
Tenisha Warner sat down for an exclusive interview with "CBS Mornings" before a lawsuit over her late husband's estate became public, and discussed her grief and raising her daughter alone.
A lawyer says influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate will fight extradition to the United Kingdom.