The Miami Heat Effect

The next four years, LeBron helped the Cavs improve. In the 2006-2007 year, the Cavs beat the Detroit Pistons in the semi-finals but lost in the finals against San-Antonio Spurs. During the years 2007-2008, the Cavs failed to make it to the playoffs. The following year, 2008-2009, they acquired point guard Mo Williams and Shaquille O’Neal. They lost in the second round of the playoffs to the Boston Celtics. In 2010, his contract was over with the Cavaliers. He decided to go to the Miami Heat and made two more lifelong friends, Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh. That season, in the playoffs, they beat the Philadelphia 76ers, the Boston Celtics, and the Chicago Bulls but lost to the Dallas Mavericks in the championship. The next season, in 2011, the Heat beat the New York Knicks, the Indiana Pacers, and the Boston Celtics. In the championship game, the Miami Heat beat the Oklahoma City Thunder. In 2012, they beat the San Antonio Spurs in the Finals. When his contract expired in 2013, he decided to go back to the Cleveland Cavaliers where everything

It would have been a tough road to hoe without two starters in Kevin Love and Anderson Varejao. It was even tougher after losing Kyrie Irving in Game 1. But yet the Cavs took a 2-1 lead in the series and made a late charge in Game 6 when it appeared the game was already over.

According to Blasting News, even if the Warriors are off to a good start, there's a notion that they will make a shakeup of their roster before the February trade deadline and a possible trade deal with Heat might happen soon.

He is also vying to bring back Middleton and his friends, and finally put the 2013 sign fiasco to bed.

Emile Durkheim was a French sociologist in the late 1800s and early 1900s who came up with the concepts of social regulation and integration. These concepts have to do with the state of societies and how they work. More specifically, social regulation is the norms created by either formal laws or social pressure. The way people are expected to live and perform their daily tasks or jobs are somewhat decided by social regulation. In its most basic form, it’s what is and isn’t deemed acceptable by societies standards. Social integration on the other hand is the extent to which the group or society matters. This brings up the importance of the individual as opposed to the importance of the society. Strength of social ties within the community are big influences on how socially integrated a society is. These two concepts helped Durkheim better form an understanding for things such as suicide rates.

None of that carried over to 2014-15, though, with the Raptors dropping all the way to 23rd (104.8). It became clear that a majority of players on the team were incapable of executing on the defensive end, which was surprising considering a large percentage of the roster returned from the year before.

Wade decided to relinquish his senior year and enter the 2003 NBA draft. He was selected by the Miami Heat with the fifth overall pick. In his first year with the Heat, he averaged 16.2 points, 4.5 assists, and 4.0 rebounds per game; he was unanimously selected to the 2004 NBA All-Rookie team. When Shaquille O'Neal was traded to the Heat, Wade's stats increased to a new average of 24.1 points and 6.8 assists per game. In the 2006, Wade gave an extraordinary performance in the NBA Finals against the Dallas Mavericks. In the third game, he scored 42 points and made 13 rebounds, helping the Heat conquer the Mavericks by two points. His 36 points, 10 rebounds, and 5 assists in the sixth game provided him the thrust to become the NBA Finals MVP. After operations to repair shoulder and knee injuries, Wade emerged for another strong season in 2008. In 2010, Wade became a free agent, but stayed with the Heat joining new teammates Chris Bosh and LeBron James. The trio has proved to be very strong and have made it to three consecutive NBA Finals, but lost the 2010-2011 Finals. In 2012, the Heat returned to the finals, but with a victory against the Oklahoma City Thunder. This was Wade's second NBA Championship win, but the first for Chris Bosh and LeBron James. In the 2012-2013 season, the Heat returned and beat the San Antonio Spurs in seven games. This victory is the second consecutive NBA Finals win

These days it seems like you can’t escape the all-seeing eye of PC culture. Every poorly worded joke or inconsiderate prank about race can lead to a person’s whole life being destroyed by woke twitter. Yet, a small made for TV movie known as Windy City Heat has managed to walk on by, unscathed by the wrath of PC culture. By stereotyping almost every minority group, Windy City Heat is arguably one of the most offensive films ever made, yet I found it amusing, hilarious, and a little enlightening. Ultimately, I believe that Windy City Heat uses extremes of stereotypes to vitiate the negative aspects of these stereotypes, and in doing so, acts as a morally acceptable pranks that aims to teach members of the film and the audience to be more welcoming.

“And I’m going to stay a Knicks and Nets representative until my last days on Earth.”

According to Klinenberg, the broad community and neighborhood-level factors that made certain residents of Chicago more vulnerable to the effects of the heatwave include high levels of poverty and crime, a large elderly population and lack of vegetation. Klinenberg notes that African Americans faced the greatest risk of mortality due to the heatwave. Although Latinos also faced high levels of poverty and crime, they were most likely to survive from the heatwave. Theories suggest that Latinos are more likely to survive the heat because they are the least isolated due to close relationships with family and relatives. Another theory is that Latinos have learned to adjust to the heat because of origins in Latin America, where the temperature is

All of that and the thought that the franchise made a lateral move at the draft is a bit premature and I'm partially to blame as well. I hadn't been too high on Jahlil Okafor in the pre-draft process, ranking him fifth on my big board, a decision the Sixers hope looks hilariously awful in just a few short seasons, playing up his defensive limitations and woes from the charity stripe and overlooking his deft footwork around the rim.

Three time NBA champion, Lebron James in his interview, “Lebron: I’m coming back to Cleveland” notes that he is returning to Cleveland after his four years in Miami after abandoning Cleveland in 2010. He supports his claim by first stating his feelings for Ohio, and what Ohio meant to him. Secondly, he explains why he abandoned Cleveland, and it was because of winning championships. Lastly, he promises Cleveland that he will give it his all to bring Cleveland’s championship drought to an end. James’ purpose is to prove to Cavalier fans that somewhere in his heart he still has a place for Ohio in order to convince the fans to believing in him once more. He establishes an enthusiastic tone for his fans, and Cavalier

With a bruised knee, Whiteside’s next opportunity to return to the NBA court came on Oct. 30, when Karl-Anthony Towns and the Minnesota Timberwolves come to Miami. Unfortunately, Miami Heat Coach Spoelstra has different plans.

Love's landing tops a dazzling two-month turnaround for the Cavs, who won only 33 diversions last season and haven't been to the playoffs since James left in 2010.

Recently though, the league has trended toward the formation of “super teams”. Recent history of the super team started with the new-look big three Boston Celtics, constructed in the summer of 2007. Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen joined Paul Pierce in Boston, and less than a year later, the trio were NBA champions. Then, in 2010, LeBron James made the decision to take his talents to South Beach, along with Chris Bosh, joining Dwyane Wade to fashion their own super team. Other teams have tried to use the same formula and failed, most notably the 2012-13 Los Angeles Lakers that had Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol, Dwight Howard and Steve Nash. But the trend was set; superstars wanted to play with other