Miami Heat and MiamiHeatwave Are Back!

With the NBA finally getting things done with their much-anticipated CBA, the games will start on Christmas Day – with our Heat forced to watch the Dallas Mavericks raise their championship banner. And MiamiHeatwave.com will be right there with the rest of us loyal Heat fans, watching Run DLC shift into year two and finish [...]

Mavericks Stamp Out Heat; Rise to Champions

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It wasn’t supposed to end this way, but end this way it did. It was supposed to end with Wade and Lebron, hugging at center court, with the trophy in their grasp. It was supposed to be a moment of elation, a moment of validation. It was supposed to be a moment where the criticism [...]

Dear Miami; Really is Now or Never

A lot of hulabaloo over losing Games 4 and 5 in Dallas, huh? Well, the stats say 73% of teams that win Game 5 win the series. So, it is the Mavs series to win. Then again, wasn’t Dallas up 2-0 heading to Miami back in 2006? That team just needed one win in Miami [...]

Dirk Has Cold, Heat Goes Cold in Game 4

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If you told me that the Heat would shoot 42% and get very little production – on either end of the floor – from one of their best players in Lebron James and still have a chance to win, I would have laughed in your face. No way. You would add that the game would [...]

Who Peed in My Mojito? Heat Choke in Game 2

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A 16 point lead with just about 6 minutes to go. Everyone was celebrating, even the Miami Heat. And that is when the problems began. You can’t just get apathetic in the middle of a game and think your opponent is so weak-minded they will just lay down and die. The Mavericks have a collection [...]