Who Wins? Miami Heat Vs. San Antonio Spurs
Our CBS experts let you in on who they think will win the NBA Championship and why. See their picks here.
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Our CBS experts let you in on who they think will win the NBA Championship and why. See their picks here.
LeBron James averaged 29ppg during the Conference Finals in leading the Heat to a series victory against the Pacers. Let's take a look back at the Miami star's top 5 career playoff performances.
The San Antonio Spurs spent most of the past week resting, answering the same questions from the media and battering each other during practice.
Other than being widely known by just the first syllable of their surnames, the coaches who will match wits in these NBA Finals may seem like polar opposites.
Both the San Antonio Spurs and the Miami Heat will be relying on three stars to carry most of the weight for their respective franchises during the 2013 NBA Finals.
The Nets are continuing to search for their next head coach, and it's no secret that owner Mikhail Prokhorov likes big names. Cue Larry Brown, the current head men's basketball coach at Southern Methodist University.
Lionel Hollins doesn't want to talk to any other NBA teams and wants to continue coaching the Memphis Grizzlies.
Lionel Hollins doesn't want to talk to any other NBA teams and wants to continue coaching the Memphis Grizzlies.
The Indiana Pacers pushed the Miami Heat to the brink only to come up short in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals. But their play made a major announcement to the country and the NBA that the Pacers are here to stay.
Danilo Gallinari says he will undergo surgery to repair the ACL on his left knee next week and is hoping to be back on the court for the Denver Nuggets around February.
No more sitting out stars, and for the San Antonio Spurs, no more sitting around.
LeBron James and the Miami Heat are off the NBA Finals for the third straight season, with their series against the San Antonio Spurs set to get underway on Thursday. SI's Ian Thomsen joined Toucher & Rich on Tuesday to discuss the series, and shoot down a Ray Allen rumor.
It's onto the NBA Finals for the Heat after they put away the Indiana Pacers, who saw their hopes of a storybook upset simply fall apart in a hurry.
Legendary Nets and Knicks point guard Jason Kidd has retired from the NBA after a storied 19-year career.
Game 7. Eastern Conference Finals. The last time the Miami Heat were in this situation, they were coming off a convincing Game 6 win in 2012 and blew out the Boston Celtics 101-88. What a difference a year makes.
As the Miami Heat prepare for Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals, there's a good chance one of the Heat's key pieces won't be available for the team in that game.
LeBron James scored 30 points, Udonis Haslem made his last eight shots on the way to a 16-point night, and the Miami Heat used a dominant third quarter to turn things around and beat the Indiana Pacers 90-79 in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals on Thursday.
"There's a lot of different stuff I may have the opportunity to do," Kidd said. "If I play, I plan on playing for the Knicks. I got to be honest with myself. I'm a young man. (But) I got to see if I could still mentally do the grind all over again."
It's hard to call a game for the Miami Heat a must-win, but if the Heat can't put together a winning formula against the Indiana Pacers in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals; the Heat could be in deep trouble.
Several times around the start of these playoffs, Miami coach Erik Spoelstra insisted that the postseason path his team would wind up navigating had the potential to be more challenging than the route they took to the NBA championship a year ago.
Miami's LeBron James and Indiana's David West and Lance Stephenson were all fined $5,000 by the NBA on Thursday for violating the league's anti-flopping policy.
The Miami Heat return to the AmericanAirlines Arena Wednesday to begin preparations for a critical Game 5 matchup in the Eastern Conference Finals. The Heat has a huge headache in the form of Indiana Pacers center Roy Hibbert and no way to really solve the problem.
Roy Hibbert had 23 points and 12 rebounds, Lance Stephenson added 20 points, and the Indiana Pacers charged back late to beat the Miami Heat 99-92 on Tuesday night and tie the Eastern Conference finals at 2-2.
Tim Duncan is so close to his first NBA championship in six long years that the Spurs star isn't worried about the little issue of being rusty once the finals actually start.
The Atlanta Hawks have named Mike Budenholzer (BEW-den-holzer) the team's new head coach, President of Basketball Operations/General Manager Danny Ferry announced today. Budenholzer becomes the 12th full-time head coach in Hawks history.
