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*Official Miami Heat 2010 Season Thread*

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try to put everything in here to avoid multiple threads:cool:

Here is the remaining preseason schedule
10/12 CSKA Moscow @ Miami AA Arena, Miami, FL 7:30 PM

10/13 Miami @ New Orleans New Orleans Arena, N.O., LA 8:00 PM

10/18 Charlotte @ Miami AA Arena, Miami, FL 7:30 PM

10/21 Miami @ Atlanta Philips Arena, Atlanta, GA 8:00 PM

10/22 Orlando vs Miami St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa, FL 7:30 PM
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they have a preseason game tomorrow:cool:
not sure how much time the big boys will get though
 
Cuts don’t matter, but Chalmers and Anthony do
by: Ira Winderman October 11th, 2010 | 2:34 PM
With Monday’s excising of Anthony Mason Jr. and Mickell Gladness, the Heat is essentially where it stood entering camp.
Mason and Gladness were the final two added to what became a 20-player camp roster, now the roster is back to the 18 the Heat had been working with prior to camp.

Joel Anthony (top) and Mario Chalmers still have something to prove this preseason.
While the next debate will be which of the three remaining players will be cut, that is relatively meaningless in the big picture.
Whether Patrick Beverley, Kenny Hasbrouck, Shavlik Randolph or Da’Sean Butler remain is superfluous. All it means is the survivor will have to go shopping for sports coats, inactive on most nights.
But there is a significant matter that remains these final two weeks of camp.
Or, more to the point, a significant matter that needs to play out.
Joel Anthony and Mario Chalmers have to have their moments.
Essentially gifted starting roles in camp, neither has had a moment this preseason that justifies such a guarantee.
Anthony has started three games, grabbed exactly one rebound in each. Yes, the minutes have been limited, but we’re talking a starting NBA center for a championship contender. A solid effort Wednesday against Emeka Okafor, a similar undersized center, would go a long way.
As for Chalmers, Wednesday’s game in New Orleans also could go a long way toward offering clarity. Providing quality defense, and a tighter handle, against a top-tier point guard such as Chris Paul would be a good place to start.
In many ways, Tuesday’s home game against CSKA Moscow merely gets in the way. Nothing Anthony or Chalmers achieve will stand for much. Ultimately, it turned into an unfortunate cash grab for the Heat.
Erik Spoelstra would be wise to hold back on Tuesday, so he can determine tangible results Wednesday against a tangible opponent.
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anthony mason jr was cut today
 
Let's say there will be a hard cap on salaries after this season. That means the league is probably going to have to break up the flagship rosters of the Los Angeles Lakers and the Miami Heat.

Fans are not going to be happy about this painful transition to a hard-cap system, but is there any other way? Let's say a lockout kills off part of next season, resulting in a moratorium to provide franchises with time to dump salaries and make moves to get under the cap for 2012-13. That extra year isn't going to help the Lakers -- in 2012-13 they are committed to pay a preposterous $92 million in player salaries, which puts them $36 million above the current soft-cap threshold. How could they fit themselves under the hard-ceiling cap and still hold on to Kobe Bryant (who is owed $28 million in 2012-13), Pau Gasol ($19 million), Andrew Bynum ($16 million on a team option) and Lamar Odom ($8 million on a partial guarantee)?

In that same season the Heat are scheduled to pay Dwyane Wade $17 million and LeBron James and Chris Bosh close to $18 million -- those three alone could launch Miami through the hard-cap ceiling, especially if the owners succeed in coercing the players to accept a smaller share of revenues. (Orlando could face a payroll of more than $75 million in player salaries that year, but so many of them are held at the team's option that the Magic could break up their roster naturally -- albeit prematurely.)

Are owners going to insist on a salary structure that ruins the two teams with the largest following? It might happen, because 22 franchises -- including the Celtics, whose expensive ties to Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen will have lapsed -- currently figure to be at $45 million or less for 2012-13. The majority of teams will be positioned to adapt to the new system, and they may force the Lakers and Heat to abide on the grounds of it being in the best long-term interests of the league.



Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/ian_thomsen/10/11/cba.primer/#ixzz126byLLaA
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I give the Heat a 2-3 year window to win the title because of the chance of a hard cap next season
 
I knew Mason was gonna get cut. The heat should keep chalmers, wassup with arroyo
 
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LeBron James might practice Saturday

MIAMI -- LeBron James was one of the last to leave the Miami Heat practice floor Friday, after a long free-throw-shooting contest with rookie Da'Sean Butler.

That was the extent of his workout.

The NBA's two-time reigning MVP sat out practice as a precautionary measure, three days after leaving a preseason game with cramps and pain in his right hamstring. The team expects that James will be ready to resume to practice on Saturday.

"We don't play until Monday and we've got a long, long ways until the 26th," James said, referring to Miami's next preseason game against Charlotte on Monday and then the Heat regular-season opener in Boston on Oct. 26. "Don't want to rush it until I feel 100 percent."

James cramped up in the third quarter of Miami's preseason win over CSKA Moscow on Tuesday night, missing roughly the final third of that game and then the entire Heat preseason matchup in New Orleans the following night. Miami did not practice Thursday.

Other Miami players sidelined Friday included guards Dwyane Wade and Mario Chalmers. Wade was in Chicago testifying in a trial that'll decide custody of his two sons, and the Heat hope to have him back at practice next week as he recovers from a strained hamstring. Chalmers has had recurring stiffness as he continues recovering from a high ankle sprain.

Jamaal Magloire, Eddie House, Carlos Arroyo and Shavlik Randolph have also been dealing with some nagging injury issues in recent days.

"We still need to play five-on-five for continuity," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "At the same time, this is a great time for us to regain our health. We need to get guys back feeling good. We have a lot of days to practice but also to get some rest. As long as we're efficient with it, guys are doing their part, spending a lot of time with our trainers and guys are starting to feel better."

Spoelstra said House "is real close" to making his preseason debut, after shoulder surgery this summer. House said he's aiming to get some minutes when Miami visits Atlanta in a preseason game Thursday.

"We're going by what the doctors say," House said. "I've been feeling good. It's just precautionary reasons. You want to be at 3½, four months [after surgery] before you actually start really taking contact. I'm right there, right there at that timeframe."

House knows the NBA season is a marathon, and he's been learning plenty about new teammates and the Heat system by watching practices and preseason games. That being said, he still thinks it's important to get some time before the games start counting in the standings.

"I just want to get out there and play," House said. "It's different when you're in a game [compared] to practice. I just want to get out there and be able to get up and down and just feel that. I haven't felt that in a long time."

In other news, Patrick Beverley (head laceration) said on his Twitter feed that he's dealing with some pain after needing four stitches to close a wound suffered in Miami's game at New Orleans. Spoelstra said he was able to practice Friday without any issues.

James will unveil his latest signature shoe from Nike, the "LeBron 8 South Beach," at a South Florida mall on Saturday afternoon.
 
:lol::cool:
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ap-tnt-travelingstudioshow
NEW YORK (AP)—TNT is sending its studio team along for a couple of LeBron James’(notes) big road trips.

Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Ernie Johnson will be on site when the Miami Heat open the NBA season at Boston on Oct. 26. The trio also will broadcast live from Quicken Loans Arena on Dec. 2 when James returns to Cleveland for the first time as a visiting player.

Barkley has been critical of the way James handled his departure from the Cavaliers in July.

TNT’s team traditionally only travels from its Atlanta studio for All-Star weekend and the network’s coverage of the conference finals.
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really looking forward 2 this season, I still can't get over how good Chris Bosh actually is. Like I said before outside of The Olympics and allstar games I've never seen dude but seen his stats. He really gonna break out this season specially when Wade is back
 

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