Dwayne Wade
Dwyane Wade was fined $5,000 for a flop which triggered the referee to blow his whistle, attributing a foul to Spurs' Manu Ginobili.
Talks are circulating in the NBA that the big three - LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, will be going their separate ways after the 2014 Finals.
The defending NBA champions, Miami Heat, is telling their captain, "We got your back, D-Wade!"
The Miami Heat outlasted the San Antonio Spurs in their epic seven-game battle with a 95-88 win to bag the 2013 NBA Championship at the American Airlines Arena on Thursday.
If you're a basketball fan, it doesn't get much better than this-LeBron James and the world champion Miami Heat in a pivotal Game 5 in the Eastern Conference Finals Thursday against the dominant Roy Hibbert and the surging Indiana Pacers.
The weekend action during the 2013 NBA playoffs set the tone for some pivotal Game 4 contests during the semifinals Monday as the road to the NBA title continues.
The march towards history continues for the Miami Heat (56-14) Wednesday when they take on a familiar Eastern rival in the defensively tough Chicago Bulls (38-31) at the United Center in Chicago, Ill.
With the NBA playoffs less than a month away, teams can ill afford to get bitten by the injury bug, but some top contending teams are reporting some of their big stars as suffering with ailments.
The NBA proved that it doesn't call it down the middle when it comes to a man's...middle.
For the third time this season, two of the top teams in the East will lock up in what could be a preview of this June's Eastern Conference Finals as Carmelo Anthony and the Atlantic Division-leading New York Knicks (35-20) host LeBron James and the red-hot world champion Miami Heat (41-14) Sunday at Madison Square Garden in New York, N.Y.
Two icons clashed, Steve Nash notched another milestone and defenses were cut to ribbons during this week in some of the top plays in NBA action.
With all the pageantry, glitz and glamour of the Slam Dunk contest, the Celebrity Game and the Three-Point Shootout all done, NBA All-Star Weekend closes out with the main event-the best of the best from the East and West colliding in the NBA All-Star Game in Houston Sunday at 8 p.m. EST.
The Eastern Conference has two teams with two players each in the starting lineup, though one player is out for the year. The Miami Heat and Boston Celtics' All-Stars will lead the way for the Eastern Conference on Sunday in the 2013 NBA All-Star Game. We profile the past successes each starter has had in past all-star games.
In a rematch of last year's NBA Finals, LeBron James and Kevin Durant, two of the league's top scorers on two of the league's best teams, clash once again as the Oklahoma City Thunder (39-13) take on the NBA world champion Miami Heat (35-14) Thursday night in Oklahoma City to close out the first half of the NBA season.
For the second and last time this season, the Black Mamba and King James will duke it out.
