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01 January 2026

• Report: Coaches went out of their way to describe Kel’el Ware as ‘coachable’

  Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra has long run a tight ship, and he expects a whole lot out of his players night in and night out. That includes second-year big man Kel’el Ware, who has staked his claim as a valuable NBA center and is averaging a double-double this season. Being coachable matters, and […]

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• Report: Kel’el Ware’s value is increasing ‘tremendously’ around NBA

  Miami Heat big man Kel’el Ware put together perhaps the best three-game stretch of his NBA career earlier this month. He scored 22-plus points and pulled down 12-plus rebounds in a trio of contests against the Brooklyn Nets, Boston Celtics and New York Knicks. That phenomenal run culminated in a 28-point, 19-rebound performance against the […]

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• Report: Miami Heat linked to Keon Ellis in trade buzz

  The Miami Heat reportedly are among the teams that have interest in Sacramento Kings guard Keon Ellis in a potential trade. Ellis, 25, is in his fourth season in the NBA and has carved out a nice rotation role with the Kings in recent seasons. “Beyond the [Los Angeles] Lakers, teams like the [New York] […]

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• Rich Paul admits he didn’t like LeBron joining Heat: ‘I was furious’

  One of the career-defining decisions of star forward LeBron James’ illustrious NBA tenure was to leave the Cleveland Cavaliers (the team that drafted him) in free agency to sign with the Miami Heat in the summer of 2010. There, he joined forces with two other star players, guard Dwyane Wade and big man Chris Bosh, […]

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• D-Wade says Pat Riley forced 2006 Heat to truly get to know each other

  NBA history has taught folks that it often requires more than merely talent to win a championship at the highest level. Countless teams over the years have beaten more talented squads in the playoffs because they had greater chemistry or combined to be more than the sum of their parts. The 2005-06 iteration of the […]

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• Tyler Herro on those blaming him for Heat’s slide: ‘Twitter stuff is Twitter’

  Noise that the Miami Heat are a better basketball team without guard Tyler Herro on the court has grown louder during the team’s current tough stretch. Since Herro made his season debut against the Dallas Mavericks on Nov. 24, the Heat have lost five of their eight games played, including three of the six contests […]

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• Report: Some think Giannis may be willing to make Heat his NBA home

  Given how shaky the Milwaukee Bucks have been to begin the 2025-26 season, noise about the possibility of superstar forward Giannis Antetokounmpo playing for a new team has only grown lately. Elsewhere in the Eastern Conference, the Miami Heat are a team that might just be a player of his caliber away from competing for […]

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• Jaime Jaquez Jr. reveals why he’s had breakout year, gives big credit to Heat Culture

  As he goes through his third season with the Miami Heat, Jaime Jaquez Jr. is experiencing the best year of his young NBA career. The 24-year-old is averaging career-highs in points per game (15.6) and assists per game (5.0) on 51.2 percent shooting from the field. The 2023 first-round draft pick is doing all of […]

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