Mike Woodson didn’t.
The Knicks coach believed his team could go toe to toe with the Heat before it beat Miami without Carmelo Anthony on Thursday night. New York’s 20-point win in South Beach just strengthened Woodson’s opinion.
“I think it’s out there, there’s no doubt about that,” Woodson said of the notion that the Knicks can finish atop the Eastern Conference, above the Heat.
The Miami Heat are off to their best home start in franchise history, which may not be encouraging for a San Antonio Spurs team that has been routed in its last two trips to South Beach.
(Reuters) – LeBron chasing the ghost of Michael, Superman taking his talents westward, and a soft-spoken teenager ready to revitalize Big Easy basketball are just three of the provocative plotlines ready to play out in the upcoming NBA season. Throw in a new team in Brooklyn, Steve Nash wearing purple and gold, and a new setting for Linsanity, and you have the most anticipated NBA campaign in years. The eight-month grind to coronate a new champion begins on October 30 when LeBron James and the Miami Heat face the Boston Celtics in South Beach. …
Oct 25 (Reuters) – LeBron chasing the ghost of Michael, Superman taking his talents westward, and a soft-spoken teenager ready to revitalize Big Easy basketball are just three of the provocative plotlines ready to play out in the upcoming NBA season. Throw in a new team in Brooklyn, Steve Nash wearing purple and gold, and a new setting for Linsanity, and you have the most anticipated NBA campaign in years. The eight-month grind to coronate a new champion begins on Oct. 30 when LeBron James and the Miami Heat face the Boston Celtics in South Beach. …
CLEVELAND (AP) — When he infamously deserted the Cavaliers two summers ago, LeBron James took much more to Miami’s glitzy South Beach than just his talents
The Heat announced on Monday that they’d agreed to terms with ex-Knick Josh Harrellson and will be bringing him to training camp.
Harrellson averaged 4.4 points per game and 3.9 rebounds for the Knicks in his rookie season. He’d established himself as a regular rotation player for Mike D’Antoni before missing about six weeks with a wrist injury.
Harrellson was traded to the Houston Rockets this summer in the sign-and-trade transaction that brought Marcus Camby to New York.
When LeBron James decided to take his talents to South Beach, his critics tried to paint him as an underachiever who would never realize his full potential.
Josh Harrellson and Amare Stoudemire were getting dressed in the Knicks locker room, when someone brought up the subject of hunting to Harrellson, an avid gamesman.
Harrellson then asked Stoudemire where they were going hunting during the coming season.
Stoudemire replied, ‘South Beach.’
A half-amused, half-confused Harrellson asked Stoudemire, ‘What can we hunt in South Beach?
The Boston Celtics have been quite busy this summer, making offseason moves left and right. Instead of rebuilding, the C’s have reloaded this summer to prepare for another championship run.
Although a key piece of the Big Three has taken his talents to South Beach to mark the end of an era, a new time in Celtics history is beginning. Rajon Rondo will lead the team back to the postseason next year, but who exactly is his supporting cast?
Boston’s front office seems focused on winning again. Here are the pros and cons of each of the Celtics’ offseason moves.
When shooting guard Ray Allen signed with the Miami Heat for a below-market two-year contract, a not insignificant number of Boston Celtics fans deemed him a traitor . The Heat and Celtics have been rivals for the better part of the last five years, even before LeBron James went to South Beach, and the idea that a key player could jump from one Eastern contender to another didn’t sit well. Never mind that he had been the subject of trade rumors for more than a season, or that the Celtics signed Jason Terry as a replacement while simultaneously trying to convince Allen to return.
Nevertheless, Allen enjoyed his five seasons in Boston and wanted to thank the fans. So he did exactly that with a full-page newspaper ad in Sunday’s edition of The Boston Globe , which you can see after the jump (via SLAM ).