Entries by Ethan Skolnick

Jimmy Butler is in Play for the Heat… Duh.

When is news not news? When we’ve been saying it for months. Jimmy Butler has had the Miami Heat first on his list since roughly September, when we told you that, and others weren’t including them in his final four. It didn’t happen then, but it wasn’t because he didn’t want it to. It was […]

The Jimmy Butler chatter is back (Thank God!)

Something to liven up your slow sports time. Nothing gets Miami Heat fans more excited — other than an Udonis Haslem angry Instagram post — than a good transaction rumor. Especially one that involves Jimmy Butler. You remember October and November? It was Butler all the time, and we played into that — after all, […]

Udonis Haslem has had enough of your garbage

OK, that’s not the word he would use.   But this is a family website. Five Reasons and Miami favorite Udonis Haslem posted on Instagram, to let people know what he thinks of them telling him he shouldn’t play anymore. He might tell you something different in person. View this post on Instagram I've never […]

Miami Heat draft Tyler Herro, fans not thrilled

Sekou. KPJ. Bol Bol. Three high upside players, which the Miami Heat need. Even Brandon Clarke, the so-called safest pick. Plenty of players thought to be Heat options were available at No. 13. Pat Riley, however, went back to his alma matter, for a player — swingman Tyler Herro — who was projected in the […]

Miami Heat’s draft night gets busier

Refresh our memories. When is the last time the Miami Heat were the team giving up cash considerations? Maybe it’s happened recently, but it doesn’t come to mind. The Heat have been in cost-saving, more than cost-adding, mode since the middle of the Big Three era — but apparently they like some of the prospects […]