Apparently, the future is now for the Heat at power forward. Michael Beasley, the No. 2 overall pick in last year's draft, is in. Udonis Haslem, a starter the past five seasons and a defensive stalwart on Miami's 2006 championship team, is out.

Free-agent guard John Lucas was released Thursday by the Miami Heat, shortly before non-guaranteed contracts for the coming season began requiring partial payment.

Two weeks after Miami Heat President Pat Riley said the team may have to hold veteran center Jermaine O'Neal out of some practice sessions this season, the team added two more big men to its roster for training camp.

The Miami Heat appears on the verge of completing its training-camp roster, with plans to sign 6-foot-9 forward Andre Brown to a one-year, non-guaranteed contract.

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By David Friedman In order to objectively evaluate the deal in which the Phoenix Suns sent Shawn Marion and Marcus Banks to the Miami Heat in exchange for Shaquille O'Neal, it is first essential to understand one thing: the Suns were not going to win an NBA title the way that their roster was constructed prior to this trade. Over the past few years, a lot of myths have developed around this team; one of the most popular ones is that were it not for the one game suspensions of Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw during last year's playoffs the Suns would have rolled to the championship. To use legal terminology, that assumes several facts that are not in evidence, namely that the Suns would not only have won game five versus the Spurs if those players had played but that t...   [read the full post]

Miami center Shaquille O'Neal was left off the active roster for the Heat's game against the Washington Wizards Wednesday.

Training camp is open and coach Pat Riley is back along with 13 of the 15 players from last season's championship roster. Riley didn't announce he was returning until Aug. 23, and he said he doesn't know why he waited. "After we had won the title, the more I thought about it I probably should have...