Carlos Arroyo resigned with the heat.

Ira Winderman has tweeted that Udonis Haslem has turned down offers from Denver and Dallas that were for much more money than he will get in Miami. You want to talk about a guy who wants to win? The Miami Heat, for the people who don’t know, are extremely loyal to their players. Udonis is solidifying himself among the most beloved Heat players in history that include Rony Seikaly, Steve Smith, Alonzo Mourning, Tim Hardaway, and Dwayne Wade. Udonis is the man. All the real fans know this already.

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It makes the most sense. Shaq said he wants to play for two more years. He doesn’t need the money. Its just like Gary Payton and Alonzo Mourning did. They won the championship and retired as champions. Two legends of the sport who got their ring and left the game on top. Shaq of course has his rings already, but who doesn’t want more? Shaq is already considering one of if not the best big man ever. If you are going to go out in 2 years, who wants to diddle away in Cleveland or San Antonio or Knicks on “maybe” teams?

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Lebron has decided that the team he will play for will be The Miami Heat. The crowd goes crazy. We will have less coverage than any other news outlet, but we will offer our opinions on the situation as they materialize in our brain.

Chris Bosh and Dwayne Wade have committed to signing with the Miami Heat. YES!
Congratulations to Wade and Bosh and to the entire Miami Heat staff.

Now that we have those two players who else are we going to get to fill out roster?

The first Celtics Heat playoff game couldn’t have been more disappointing. The Heat completely imploded at the end of the 3rd quarter and then it got worse in the 4th quarter.

The Heat played well all game, great defense, decent offense, but doing enough to get the job done. The Heat caused a ton of turnovers in the first half and lead most of the game.

The 3rd quarter saw the Heat get Rondo’d with some nice plays. Then every player on the Heat team simply started to falter. The refs had their way with their favorite person to call fouls on, Udonis Haslem. Some calls were absolutely atrocious.

The Heat could have taken one game on their home court. This series just got more difficult. I thought there was some poor coaching decisions not keeping Joel Anthony in the game, as he was causing some serious problems for the Celtics. Forget seniority, get the win. After Haslem completely blew two point blank shots, caused a 3 point play right afterwards, there was an opportunity to have Anthony in the game to give a chance of blocking shots and causing some problems. We don’t need him for scoring. The Bulls didn’t use Rodman for scoring, and the Pistons didn’t use Wallace for it either.

How many times do we have to hear that Joel Anthony is the 19th best shot blocker in the game, yet only plays for 3 minutes per game.

Moreover, we need people who can get to the hoop. Once we again we are an outside shooting team. I hope next year we get some players who can drive to the hoop. Beasley has all the potential, but we need more. There was no pressure once we got the lead. No sustained offense. If we don’t hit the outside shots, the other teams just get to the basket. We trade hard shots for easy shots.

Indiana was up on the Heat pretty much the entire first half. The Heat mounted a great comeback with Wade, Chalmers, and Dorell Wright doing some good offensive work. Everyone pitched in on the defensive side.

A couple of records last night.

-Dwayne Wade had the most points of any single Heat player against the Indiana Pacers ever.
-The HEAT scored the most points against the Indiana Pacers ever last night.
-Finally, the HEAT swept the Indiana Pacers in the season series for the first time in 22 years.

While growing up, the two teams that were always the Achilles heal of The Miami Heat were The New York Knicks and The Indiana Pacers. Glad to see they were able to achieve these records last night.

Rafer is starting tonight at the Phoenix Suns game and even though he has shot poorly, he is controlling the ball and dishing it out well to both Wade, and Beasely.

Even though we lost, this was worth the whole game.

So the final seconds go like this. We are down by 3 and Wade gets the inbound and heads to the baseline for a 3 point quick shot. It misses and Golden State’s Jama Crawford rebounds the ball and BAM, Chris Quinn comes flying in and causes enough disruption to where Crawford falls out of bounds. Heat ball.

Then Daequon Cook inbounds under the net to Chris Quinn on a wrap around where he nails a 3 pointer in front of the Warriors bench with 7 seconds left.

Michael Beasley is pumping his fists in happiness and looking up at the opposite scoreboard when he remembers to pressure the inbound. Andris Biedrins inbounds the ball to Crawford and Beasley shoots in front and steals the ball. He then charges the basket and rainbows the layup which gets blocked by Biedrins, but catches the blocked ball and puts it up and misses, BUT gets fouled. He makes the first and misses the second putting the Heat UP one.

Stephen Jackson inbounds to Crawford, who had been red hot all night, dribble drives and lays one up on a popper and it rims out. Heat win 130-129 in one of the best reg games I’ve ever seen.

This Heat team contests the opponent throughout the entire game. During the Shaq years we would always lag and make a huge surge in the 4th quarter. Now we play a much more balanced game and its exciting to watch.

Utah Jazz are up Wednesday.