Joel Anthony

   The box score offered no delineation about a Big Three or a Chosen One.    The shots were evenly distributed, as were the points, five players in double figures, two more with nine.    So now the victories in this series are evenly distributed,...

It's not just Miami Heat fans in South Florida fans who are wild about this year's National Basketball Association Finals. The 2013 championship games are the most global ever, thanks to a record number of players from outside the U.S. and unprecedented...

  Amid this third consecutive trip to the NBA Finals, and with increasingly punitive salary-cap and luxury-tax penalties about to kick in from the new collective-bargaining agreement, the question becomes how the Miami Heat will be able to sustain their...

   Ultimately, one play did in one player.    So when San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker got himself in trouble and then out of trouble with 5.2 seconds to play, none of the boxscore-filling statistics of Miami Heat forward LeBron James amounted to...

INDIANAPOLIS — And now it's a one-game series. The Miami Heat will have to play once more in its bid to punch its ticket to a third consecutive appearance in the NBA Finals. Facing elimination, the Indiana Pacers defeated the Heat, 91-77, Saturday...

We saw in Game 6 the Heat couldn't defend a halftime lead, couldn't defend their second-half basket and couldn't defend their individual reputations when Indiana picked those apart, too. We'll see if they can defend their legacy Monday night in Game 7....

Despite returning to South Florida in the wee hours Sunday morning and clearly substituting sleep for game-tape study of one of the Heat's worst playoff performances of his five-year tenure as head coach, a surprisingly upbeat Erik Spoelstra said it was...

– And now it comes down to a one-game series. The Miami Heat will have to play at least once more before they can punch their ticket to a third consecutive appearance in the NBA Finals. Facing elimination, the Indiana Pacers defeated the Heat 91-77...

Last year it was caused by a reaction. This time, Indiana Pacers forward Tyler Hansbrough had no idea why he was involved in a physical altercation for a second straight season against the Miami Heat in the playoffs. Hansbrough could not explain his...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Roy Hibbert had 24 points and 11 rebounds, Paul George finished with 28 points, and the Indiana Pacers forced a deciding game in the Eastern Conference finals with a 91-77 victory over the Miami Heat on Saturday night.  LeBron James...

Observations from Saturday night's 91-77 playoff loss to the Indiana Pacers at Bankers Life Fieldhouse: - If it was any other player, would Dwyane Wade be playing, or be played by his coach? - The limitations due to that knee are undeniable. - Instead...

The TNT crew now heads back to Indianapolis for Game 6 of Heat-Pacers. A look at their thoughts during Thursday's Game 5 broadcast from AmericanAirlines Arena: Reggie Miller, on Wade: "At times [Wade] looks so uninterested out there on the floor, like...