Jamaal Magloire News

Yes, many, if not all, of this summer's prime free agents are gone, not that the Heat, with its limited salary-cap funds, had much of a chance.

The temptations are there, but the Miami Heat can't touch. Not now, and possibly not at all before the start of next season.

Dwyane Wade rebounded from injuries and had the most impressive season of anyone in the league.

Sunday night meant Pau Gasol, Sasha Vujacic, Hedo Turkoglu, Mickael Pietrus and Marcin Gortat in the NBA Finals.

Former NBA star Wali Jones held several basketball camps for kids of special needs during his tenure with the Heat.

A few updates while wondering whether Michael Beasley is going and Chris Bosh is coming: According to the Heat there is nothing to the message-board scuttlebutt that it is in heated pursuit of Greek center Yiannis Bouroussis, with the team on Tuesday blowing off the reports.

Heat 98, Hawks 72: Remember Game 1 of this epic battle? Me neither. Apparently it took place on April 19th.

With Sunday's 91-78 loss to the Atlanta Hawks , a season of major strides ended with a stumble at the finish for the Miami Heat , unable to close out its 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series.

Jamaal Magloire officially becomes a free agent this summer. The Heat went down in flames yesterday, burned in Dixie as one of the NBA's most puzzling playoff series came to its merciful end.

The game was over. The season was over. Udonis Haslem sat at his final locker of the year and said what a bad day it was to have a bad day.

We're now in the seventh and decisive game of this dreadful series and there still hasn't been one lead change after the first quarter in any of these epic clashes.

This was fairly predictable, wasn't it? Dwyane Wade. A big playoff game. At home.

Five games played, and none closer than 10 points. Truth be told, this first-round playoff series between the Miami Heat and Atlanta Hawks has been pretty much a dud.

APRIL 29: Dwyane Wade #3 of the Miami Heat holds his head as teammate Mario Chalmers #6 continues play after colliding with Josh Smith #5 of the Atlanta Hawks during Game Five of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals at Philips Arena on April 29, 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Heat was staring at a rout before James Jones connected on consecutive four-point plays in the second quarter Monday.

OK, very funny. Fess up. Whose bright idea was it to make the Heat's playoff motto, "Back to Black?" Because that's just what Dwyane Wade 's back did Monday before Game 4 of this playoff series.

As if the Atlanta Hawks haven't had enough trouble while traveling, this will be the first thing they see tonight, as their buses pull up the hill to circle AmericanAirlines Arena and park: A street banner on a lamp post, featuring Dwyane Wade in black tie, hands gripping his jacket, looking like a maitre d'. Welcome.

I went to practice so you didn't have to. They talked; I listened. And that got me thinking.

The Miami Heat has no plans for covert activity when it comes to securing a copy of the Atlanta Hawks ' playbook in this first-round playoff series.

Daequan Cook, the second-year guard who ignited the Heat at both ends of the court early in the season, isn't sure why his game has nose-dived since he won the three-point shooting contest during All-Star weekend.