Dwyane Wade Archives

To be honest, I’m as guilty as anyone. But it’s time to cut this out. All of us. Endless refreshing of Adrian Wojnarowski’s Twitter account, believing in Chris Broussard again, and buying into endless speculation has. to. stop. I mean, this stuff isn’t even news! Chris Broussard literally said he had no hard info or […]

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Negrodamus Predicts Where the Biggest NBA Free Agents Will Go

July 1, 2014 Joe Sargent

We teased it last week, but today marks the official beginning of the NBA Free Agency sweepstakes. Every team with cap space (and there are a bunch of them), and even teams without space are looking to improve by signing or trading for an impactful player. By the time you read this, Carmelo Anthony […]

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Five Reasons the Miami Heat Will Definitely Win the Title

June 5, 2014 Joe Sargent

A million predictions gone wrong, and we’re right where everyone kinda knew we’d end up. The Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs are playing in the NBA Finals for the second year in a row. The Spurs had the NBA’s best record all season, featuring the league’s most consistent trio over the last decade and […]

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Are the Miami Heat a Failure Without a Title This Season?

May 28, 2014 Joe Sargent

Unless hell freezes over between now and next week, the Miami Heat will be in the NBA Finals next Thursday, June 5th. We’ll save the Finals preview for next week. For now, we can say there’s a real possibility the Heat could lose the championship. Neither Oklahoma City nor San Antonio could be considered walk […]

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Thunder Up! How the OKC Thunder Will Win the NBA Championship

April 22, 2014 Joe Sargent

Since I write on Tuesdays here, I got to cheat and see Game 1 of every NBA playoff series early. So instead of putting my foot in my mouth like I did last week, I can say smart things like, “those Pacers still have a lot of work to do, smh.” This is going better […]

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SBM Sports: The Indiana Pacers Have the #1 Seed…Can They Beat Miami?

April 15, 2014 Joe Sargent

In one of the most anticlimactic playoff races in a while, it appears the Indiana Pacers will outlast the Miami Heat for the number one seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs. The Pacers loudly proclaimed this to be their goal to start the season. They pushed Miami to Game 7 in last year’s playoffs, and […]

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Are the Miami Heat Giving Us Reasons to Doubt Them Again?

March 11, 2014 Joe Sargent

When LeBron James hosted The Decision in 2010, he instantly became the most hated player in the NBA. Except for that one person who randomly clapped when he announced his decision, pretty much everyone else felt he had taken a shortcut to basketball royalty. In the four years since, James and the Heat endured criticism […]

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SBM Sports – Three Reasons the Miami Heat Will Not Three Peat

October 15, 2013 Joe Sargent

Football season is in full swing. The Broncos are good, the Jaguars are terrible. Enough of that. The NBA season is just around the corner, which means we are thisclose to the sweet spot on the calendar with the NFL, college football, MLB playoffs, AND pro and college basketball going on. Oh yeah, and hockey. […]

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The SBM Sports Recap of the 2013 NBA Season

June 25, 2013 Joe Sargent

Heat Haters almost had reason to celebrate, but in the end, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and the rest of Miami had the last laugh for the 2013 NBA season. In the moments after their Game 7 championship win, I thought about how close it came to going the other way. A majority of the postgame […]

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3 Reasons NBA Conspiracy Theorists Need to Have a Seat

June 18, 2013 Joe Sargent

Let’s be honest with each other, we have no idea what will happen in Game 6 of the Finals tonight. The gasbags on ESPN and your local sports radio station have all given their guesses, but all we know is Danny Green will continue to be Jesus Christ of the three-point line and Shane Battier […]