I won’t make the Heat the outright favorites to win it all this season. I think the Lakers will have something to say about that, now that Dwight Howard, the NBA’s best center, and Steve Nash the NBA’s best pure passer, have both joined Kobe in LA.
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NBA Returns: Will the Heat and Lakers Meet in the Finals?
Posted: 31st October 2012 by DavidBurnett in Basketball, NBA, NBA FinalsTags: Dwight Howard, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Los Angeles Lakers, Miami Heat, NBA season starts, Steve Nash
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LeBron James: Getting Fitted for His Crown
Posted: 20th June 2012 by DavidBurnett in Basketball, NBA, NBA FinalsTags: coronation, crown, LeBron James, Miami Heat, NBA Finals, Oklahoma City Thunder
With a victory Tuesday night over the Oklahoma City Thunder, and now up three games to one, the Miami Heat are firmly in command and poised to win the NBA championship. But while basketball is a team game, a Heat title will really only be about one player.
The sport of basketball has been waiting a long time for this – a chance to crown King James, one of the most celebrated players in history. Game five in Miami on Thursday night should be his coronation.
In sports there is often a reference to “whose time it is”. It now seems that LeBron’s time has finally come.
Share on FacebookLeBron vs. Dirk Evokes Memories of Legendary Rivalry
Posted: 31st May 2011 by DavidBurnett in Basketball, NBA FinalsTags: Dallas Mavericks, Dirk Nowitzki, LeBron James, Miami Heat, NBA Finals
The NBA Finals which tipoff tonight, will feature the Miami Heat against the Dallas Mavericks, the two teams who through three playoff rounds have clearly proven to be the best in the world this year. That said, the real headliners of this series are the Heat’s LeBron James and Mavericks’ Dirk Nowitzki.
This match up is reminiscent of the classic Bird versus Magic rivalry more than 25 years ago – two of the league’s most important stars playing the best basketball of their careers.
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Posted: 28th December 2010 by DavidBurnett in Basketball, NBATags: Chris Bosh, Dwyane Wade, LeBron James, Miami Heat
Still, of all the professional athletes in the universe LeBron has had more leverage than Magic, Bird and Jordan had combined – particularly so in Cleveland – to affect the caliber of personnel of his team. He clearly didn’t’t have to leave Cleveland to play with great players; he could have simply had them come to him. More importantly the history of the league shows that no assembling of dream team players has ever resulted in the awarding of the Larry O’Brien championship trophy.
Share on FacebookLeBron Leaves Home But Still Bears a Burden
Posted: 9th July 2010 by DavidBurnett in Basketball, MVP, NBATags: Cleveland Cavaliers, Dwyane Wade, LeBron James, Miami Heat, NBA
What we learned during the hour-long prime time “Decision” is that Cleveland will never be the same again. But neither will LeBron. The city’s native son is finally leaving home. He is taking his basketball to Miami where he will join Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh to become the newest and perhaps best Big Three of all time. That’s the basketball and business part of this. The rest is personal.
Share on FacebookA Closing Argument: Wade for MVP
Posted: 25th March 2009 by DavidBurnett in Basketball, MVP, NBATags: closing argument, Dwyane Wade, Kobe, LeBron, Miami Heat, MVP, NBA, Shaq, Wade for MVP
We have entered the home stretch of another long NBA season. Actually it has been one of the league’s best seasons. But with the season winding down it is now time to start casting votes. And my vote for 2009 NBA MVP goes to – drum roll please – the Miami Heat’s Dwyane Wade. For […]
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