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'Shaq' as he is more commonly known as affectionately amongst his vast array of fans, Shaquille O'Neal is one of the highest achievers in the world of Basketball having won no less than four NBA world championships. He is known especially for his enormous size, marked by his large shoe size of twenty-two. Shaquille O'Neal is now playing the team the Cleveland Cavaliers and earning an impressive salary of ...

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) _ Miami Heat forward James Posey was arrested early Monday on a drunken driving charge after an officer pulled him over for stopping in the middle of a road. Posey had stopped his car on a double-lane Miami Beach road, talking to occupants of other vehicles and pedestrians, police said. Once out of the car, Posey displayed ``bloodshot eyes, slurred speech, and an odour of an ...

Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade will not fly with the team to Washington and isn't expected to play when the team visits the Wizards on Friday night. Wade had two wisdom teeth removed Tuesday and doctors are concerned about the risks he'd take by flying, including the possibility that the infection in his jaw could spread elsewhere. He is also expected to miss a party in his honour Thursday night ...

Count the Miami Heat among the teams interested in seeing what it would take to obtain Allen Iverson from the Philadelphia 76ers. Heat coach and president Pat Riley said Wednesday night he has a ``level of interest'' in Iverson, a four-time NBA scoring champion whom the 76ers are trying to trade. However, it's unknown if Miami is actually involved in any serious talks with Philadelphia about making a deal. ``I ...

The Miami Heat's arena has become a shrine to last season, with their NBA championship celebrated on rafter banners, in hallway photos, in a larger-than-Shaq portrait by the entrance and even on the locker-room carpet. Five months ago seems like the good ol' days. The Heat have quickly gone from basking in the past to struggling with the present, and they take a 6-8 record into Thursday's game against Detroit. ...

First, Shaq sat. To take a load off his surgically repaired left knee, he settled into a chair outside the Miami Heat locker room Tuesday. Then he spoke barely above a whisper into a cluster of microphones inches from his face. For those straining to hear, the message was nonetheless clear: Shaquille O'Neal's latest injury should not be interpreted as a sign that he's in decline. ``They've been saying that ...

This is one repeat the Miami Heat didn't want: a serious early season injury to Shaquille O'Neal. The 13-time all-star will undergo knee surgery and be sidelined four to six weeks, the Heat said Friday. O'Neal tore cartilage in his left knee Sunday against Houston, an injury originally diagnosed as a hyperextended knee. Last season, O'Neal sprained his ankle in Miami's home opener and missed the next 18 games. He sat out a total of 23 games, ...

Tony Parker scored 17 points and Brent Barry added 13 of his 15 in a second-quarter spurt, leading the San Antonio Spurs to a 103-93 pre-season victory over the Miami Heat on Saturday night. Parker was 5-for-10 from the field and made all seven free throws as the Spurs (3-2) bounced back from a loss to the Chicago Bulls on Thursday where they scored only 67 points, the second-lowest total for a pre-season game in franchise history. Michael ...

Rudy Gay scored 14 points, and Chucky Atkins keyed a fourth-quarter run Friday night as the Memphis Grizzlies held on for a 96-95 pre-season victory over the Miami Heat. Atkins scored the first seven points for Memphis in the fourth quarter, kickstarting a 17-7 burst that led to an 89-74 lead with five minutes left. Robert Hite, the undrafted free agent from the University of Miami, tried to bring the Heat back, scoring 16 of his team-high 25 points ...

Dorell Wright's promising pre-season with the Miami Heat is over. The third-year forward has a sprained left ankle and is expected to miss three weeks, the team said Wednesday. Wright is expected to spend one week in a cast and the following two weeks rehabbing. Wright said he wasn't sure when the injury occurred, but noticed the ankle started swelling about three hours after the Heat beat the New Orleans ...

Dwyane Wade scored 19 points and Jason Kapono had seven of his 12 points in the final 1:46 to help the Miami Heat rally for a 109-105 exhibition win over the New Orleans Hornets on Tuesday night. The Heat trailed 101-97 with three minutes remaining following a layup by the Hornets' Jannero Pargo, then outscored New Orleans 12-4 the rest of the way for their first win in three pre-season games. Wade played 24 minutes _ all ...

Joe Johnson scored 22 points with 4 assists, Zaza Pachulia scored 18 points and Marvin Williams added 13 points and grabbed nine rebounds to lead Atlanta to a 91-81 exhibition win over Miami on Saturday night. Antoine Walker led the defending NBA champion Heat (0-2) with 17 points and 12 rebounds, and Udonis Haslem added 16 points and five rebounds. After dropping its Oct. 10 exhibition opener 84-64 to Detroit in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Miami rested three ...

Nazr Mohammed had 16 points and eight rebounds to lead the Detroit Pistons to an 84-64 victory over Miami on Tuesday night as the Heat's Shaquille O'Neal and Dwyane Wade watched most of the exhibition game from the bench. The two came out of the game with the defending NBA champions leading 13-12 in the first quarter, and the Pistons quickly took a lead they never relinquished in the pre-season ...

Unlike the vast majority of NBA players, Dorell Wright is still growing. He was six-foot-seven when the Miami Heat drafted him out of Connecticut's South Kent Prep in 2004, and didn't grow much during his first two seasons as a little-used reserve. Yet this past summer, the 20-year-old Wright got noticeably taller, reporting for camp at nearly 6-9. ``I'm not done,'' Wright said. ``I think I should be six-foot-10 by the time I'm done.'' When the defending NBA champions ...

The NBA is convinced it is playing with a better basketball this season _ no matter what Shaquille O'Neal thinks. The league is debuting a new ball made of microfibre composite to replace the old leather balls, and O'Neal isn't impressed. The Miami Heat star blasted the ball Monday, criticizing not only the product but whoever was involved in the decision to use it. One of those people, executive vice-president ...

Alonzo Mourning walked into Pat Riley's office one day this summer for some contract talks, yet his mind quickly drifted elsewhere. Scattered about were drawings of something Mourning spent a career chasing: the championship ring. Right away, he knew returning to the Miami Heat was his best move. ``He had the boards for the rings in there,'' Mourning said. ``Watching it all evolve, then coming in to get fitted for ...

Heat centre Shaquille O'Neal is no fan of the new basketballs to be used by the NBA this season, and isn't afraid to say so. ``I think the new ball is terrible,'' O'Neal said Monday. ``It's the worst decision some expert, whoever did it, made. ... The NBA's been around how long? A hundred years? Fifty years? So to change it now, whoever that person is needs his college degree ...

Before the Miami Heat begin really looking toward the new season, coach Pat Riley wanted them to take one more glance back. So on Monday, in the first team meeting of 2006-07, Riley broke out an 11-minute video showcasing the best moments of the Heat's title march last season. The message needed no deciphering: He simply wanted to remind the defending NBA champions how good those moments felt a year ...

Dwyane Wade has boundless energy. Good thing, too, because the NBA final MVP hasn't had much time to rest over the last few months. Unlike many of his Miami Heat teammates, who've spent most of the last 3{ months relaxing and getting ready to defend their NBA championship, Wade has been in near-constant motion. Yet when the Heat open training camp Tuesday, the 24-year-old superstar guard says he'll be ready ...