Ex-Heat trio still feeling estranged in LA
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LOS ANGELES - The star center? Gone. The larger-than-life coach? Gone. Why, the Heat last season had enough subplots for a nighttime soap.
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An array of injuries, mystifyingly poor play and a super-cool coach who lost his cool have headlined the Miami Heat's season, leaving the team grasping just to reach .500.
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Seattle and Miami are among the NBA's four winningest teams so far this season, ranking just behind Phoenix and San Antonio. Yet when the Heat put their 14-game winning streak on the line Monday night against the SuperSonics, Miami won't be looking at the matchup as a potential NBA Finals preview or a measuring stick to see where it ranks against one of the Western Conference's elite clubs.
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The Trail Blazers are thriving, and Channing Frye is quietly finding his niche. The Knicks are dragging, and Zach Randolph is quietly wondering where it all went wrong.
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Four months after the death of team patriarch Red Auerbach, Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, and Danny Ainge reunited in grief yesterday to say goodbye to former Celtics teammate Dennis Johnson.
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Now comes former coach Phil Jackson&#39;s &quot;The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul,&quot; a diary of the Lakers&#39; 2003-04 season (which ended in the NBA Finals loss to the Pistons).
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Jeff Van Gundy is nearly three years removed from his time with the Knicks, but escaping the pressure of New York has not given him much relief.
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The Orlando Magic have their man ... again. This time, it's Stan Van Gundy. Billy Donovan says he feels "terrible" about all the confusion, but insists Florida is where he belongs.
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Former Xavier forward Brian Grant said he misses playing in Miami. Grant was traded from the Heat to the Los Angeles Lakers in July, along with two other Heat players, in exchange for Shaquille O&#39;Neal.
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LeBron James' run of futility in South Florida is over. The misfortune of the Miami Heat continues.
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Shawn Marionâs debut was strong. It just was not enough for the Miami Heat to stop Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday.
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The past few years have been  bittersweet for music retail in Los Angeles. The opening of  Amoeba Records in 2001 gave the city one of the stronger music  outlets in America, but was followed soon by the closings of  Aron&#39;s Records and Rhino Records.
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MIAMI -- Ending nearly three months of suspense about his future, Miami Heat center Alonzo Mourning said Sunday night at his annual Zo's Summer Groove charity game that he'll play again next season _ a choice he kept secret to the end, insisting he was still deciding just hours before the actual...
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The Los Angeles Dodgers can clinch the N.L. West in front of the celebrity clientele that used to shun them as if they were the Clippers.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ - After playing one of the Eastern Conference teams on a slow descent into mediocrity, tonight the Heat hosts a team thought to be going in the opposite direction â-leveland.
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And so The Game bears down, this week at last, a sideshow distraction the surging Miami Heat and the inconsistent Los Angeles Lakers can collectively do without, a Jerry Springer Christmas
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Without Shaquille O'Neal, the Miami Heat aren't playing championship-caliber basketball. "We just don't have any respect for winning," the Heat's Udonis Haslem said after a 106-86 loss to the Spurs last night in San Antonio.