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Cam Boozer, a five-star Duke recruit from Miami, Fla., has been named the 2024-25 Gatorade National Boys Basketball Player of the Year. Miami Heat forward and NBA champion Kevin Love surprised Boozer with the honor for the second time in his high school career.

Bam Adebayo scored 27 points, Tyler Herro scored 20 and the Miami Heat spoiled Jimmy Butler’s return game with a one-sided 112-86 win over the Golden State Warriors.

Jimmy Butler returns to the Kaseya Center, but this time, with the Golden State Warriors.

Jimmy Butler has been through these first-game-back matchups against former teams before. He got a standing ovation and a tribute video at Chicago in 2018. He got jeered in Minnesota in 2019. He got downright booed in his return to Philadelphia later that year.

Cade Cunningham banked in a 3-pointer with less than a second remaining, giving the Detroit Pistons a 116-113 win over Miami and sending the Heat to their ninth consecutive loss. Cunningham had his ninth triple-double of the season — 25 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists for the Pistons, who trailed for most of the second half and never led...

The last time a Miami Heat team lost eight consecutive games, before now, was 2008. Erik Spoelstra was an assistant coach in Pat Riley’s final season on the sideline. And that team was tanking. This team isn’t. The Heat — who just went 0-5 on a five-game homestand, followed by two road losses by a combined 55 points — are...

Actor and comedian Tracy Morgan got sick in the second half of Monday night’s Heat-Knicks game, interrupting the action at Madison Square Garden.

Here are this week’s top sports stories in Miami, including an update on Lionel Messi’s injury and its impact on World Cup qualifiers, a look at the top seeds competing in the 2025 Miami Open main draw and the latest free agency moves by the Dolphins.

A new lawsuit accuses former Miami Heat star Jimmy Butler of leaving a luxury Miami Beach house he’d been renting in disrepair, leading to a costly air conditioner leak and an algae-filled pool.

Nikola Jovic of the Miami Heat will miss at least the next four weeks with a broken bone in his right hand. The Heat announced the injury on Tuesday. It’s a blow to Miami’s hopes of securing a guaranteed playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. Jovic broke the second metacarpal in his hand during Sunday’s game at Milwaukee and was...

After facing disciplinary action from Major League Soccer, Lionel Messi leads Inter Miami to the CONCACAF Champions Cup Round of 16. Meanwhile, Miami quarterback and No. 1 overall pick candidate Cam Ward’s decision to participate in the upcoming NFL combine has generated significant buzz. Here are the biggest Miami sports storylines you need to know this week.

Pat Riley’s three-peat trademarks could have led to the Miami Heat president getting a sizable payday if the Kansas City Chiefs had won their third consecutive Super Bowl. Turns out, the Basketball Hall of Famer actually doesn’t keep that money. Riley said he devotes his share of revenues gleaned from “three-peat” usage — he’s had trademarks on that term for...

Things rarely happen in the NBA at 8:57 a.m. on a Sunday. But that was the moment when Miami’s newest acquisitions — Andrew Wiggins, Davion Mitchell and Kyle Anderson — walked into the Heat interview room for the first time.

Jimmy Butler has gotten his wish. He’s being traded out of Miami. The Heat and the Golden State Warriors have agreed on a deal that sends Butler to the Bay Area, a person with knowledge of the talks said Wednesday. The trade ends a Miami era for Butler that will be remembered first for two trips to the NBA Finals...

A Miami fan broke some major news to Heat players from behind the bench during their game against the Philadelphia Sixers—an interaction that was all caught on video. NBC6’s Julia Bagg reports.

A Miami fan broke some major news to Heat players from behind the bench during their game against the Sixers — an interaction that was all caught on video.

Jimmy Butler joins the Golden State Warriors following a multi-team trade between the Heat, Pistons, Jazz, Raptors and Warriors.

The six-time NBA All-Star has been suspended by his team for the third time this month.

The Miami Heat suspended star Jimmy Butler for the third time in January, this time after leaving shootaround early amid a trade saga.

Jimmy Butler has been suspended by the Miami Heat for the second time in three weeks, this time for two games. The team says it suspended Butler for what it described as a continued pattern of disregard of team rules and conduct detrimental to the team. It came after Butler missed the Heat’s flight to Miami on Wednesday. Butler was...