NBA Finals

Miami was not widely expected to make the NBA Finals this season

The ultimate anguish. The ultimate joy. This season, for LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers, had it all. And it ended in the only fashion that they deemed would be acceptable, with them back atop the basketball world. For the first time since Kobe Bryant’s fifth and final title a decade ago, the Lakers are NBA champions. James...

The Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Miami Heat Sunday, giving them their 17th championship title.

The Lakers’ Anthony Davis and Miami’s Jae Crowder both ended up on the floor midway through the third quarter of Game 5 of the NBA Finals

Jimmy Butler was slumped over a video board behind the baseline in the final seconds, exhausted, gasping for air. He gave it all. The Miami Heat needed nothing less. The NBA Finals — and Miami’s title chances — are not over, not after Butler and the Heat pulled off a virtuoso performance in Game 5 on Friday night. Butler had…

The trophy was ready

The trophy ceremony plans are getting finalized

Anthony Davis punched his chest in celebration

Bam Adebayo is back for the Miami Heat after a two-game absence

A South Miami-Dade nun at Our Lady of Lourdes Academy sent some heavenly help to the Miami Heat during Game 3.  Sister Marie Theresa Jones, 88, is known to be a lucky charm for the athletes at the Catholic all-girls high school. And on Sunday night, she may very well have been the spiritual fan the Miami Heat needed.  “Before…

A South Miami-Dade nun at Our Lady of Lourdes Academy sent some heavenly help to the Miami Heat during Game 3 Sunday night.

Jimmy Butler, perhaps the NBA’s best-known barista, is not adjusting the prices at the coffee shop that he’s been operating out of his hotel room for Miami Heat teammates and staff inside the NBA bubble

Bam Adebayo and Goran Dragic have been ruled out of Game 3 of the NBA Finals, meaning the Miami Heat will be depleted once again Sunday night

The first 10 matchups between the Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat all were basically the same

Jimmy Butler had a bandage on his right knee and a wrap on his left ankle

LeBron James finally got an easy Game 1 in the NBA Finals

Just under two months ago, the Miami Heat were the fifth seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs with critics wondering if head coach Erik Spoelstra’s team would be able to make it out of their first round series. Wednesday, the Heat will be one of the last two teams standing inside the NBA bubble playing in the league’s Finals...

LeBron James wants to beat the Miami Heat

Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James talks about his lessons learned during his time playing with the Miami Heat, as well as what to expect heading into Game 1 of the NBA Finals.

What was once a 22-team bubble at Walt Disney World is down to the final two, with Bam Adebayo and the Miami Heat set to take on LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Finals