Now that the Miami Heat are rebuilding, a 30-year-old Goran Dragic suddenly feels out of place. Sure, the Heat can use him to pitch superstar free agents on relocating to Miami; after all, it often takes incumbent stars to reel in outside headliners. But Dragic isn’t the best of stars, and the NBA’s new collective [...]
December 23, 2016
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Goran Dragic is not for sale. Yet. According to Basketball Insiders’ Steve Kyler, the Miami Heat are not entertaining offers for their franchise point guard, but there’s a chance that changes before the February deadline: Miami’s Goran Dragic continues to surface as possibly the biggest fish to be had, but sources with the HEAT continue [...]
December 20, 2016
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Though the Miami Heat are hovering on the brink of a full-tilt rebuild, they apparently don’t have any plans to shop veteran point guard Goran Dragic. Yet. From ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: The Miami Heat aren’t actively trying to trade ?point guard Goran Dragic. We know this because if they were, it wouldn’t take the Heat [...]
October 26, 2016
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Preseason trade rumors alert! According to Michael Scott of Basketball Insiders, the Sacramento Kings have talked shop with the Miami Heat about a deal that would land them Goran Dragic in exchange for Darren Collison and Rudy Gay: The Sacramento Kings and Miami Heat have discussed a trade of Rudy Gay and Darren Collison for [...]
October 19, 2016
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When Goran Dragic re-signed with the Miami Heat, he thought he was joining a borderline Eastern Conference powerhouse—a team that would contend for at title, or at least feign contention until its next free-agency coupe. Instead, though, he finds himself on a rebuilding squad, at the age of 30, with no Dwyane Wade or Chris [...]
October 11, 2016
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Goran Dragic does not miss playing for the Phoenix Suns. Amazing how far we’ve come, isn’t it? Dragic sort of revived his career in Phoenix, permanently establishing himself as a star talent at the point guard position during the Suns’ surprising 48-win 2013-14 campaign. But then that season ended. The Suns not only re-signed Eric [...]
January 6, 2016
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Markieff Morris is having a weird few months. The Phoenix Suns traded his brother, Marcus Morris, to the Detroit Pistons in what was clearly a salary dump as the team attempted to become part of the LaMarcus Aldridge sweepstakes after signing Tyson Chandler. Marcus has since called the Suns out, leaving no doubt that he [...]
October 9, 2015
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Chris Bosh is back, and he’s the same as ever. Bosh made his return to the floor on Sunday night in the Miami Heat’s preseason opener after missing the tail end of last season with a blood clot on one of his lungs. And, well, he looked good. But he sounded even better. Bosh went [...]
October 5, 2015
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Pat Riley is an optimist. For this summer at least. Good ol’ Riles isn’t one to sugarcoat his opinion. He tells shit like it is, just as he did after the Miami Heat’s 2014 NBA Finals loss to the San Antonio Spurs, delivering a purposeful, albeit subspoken, message to his Big Three, the entirety of [...]
September 10, 2015
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The Miami Heat are an enigma. Most of the time, in the NBA, that’s considered a bad thing. The best teams offer hope in the form of certainty, not assurances and pipe dreams and potential flexibility and possible, though not guaranteed, returns. But the Heat are different. They’ve always been different. Sort of like how [...]
September 2, 2015
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