Toronto Raptors at Miami Heat – March 31, 2014

• “Heatnation, always glad you’re aboard. Off we go on another Miami Heat adventure.”
• “Udonis over Patterson, U-did-it!”
• “Bosh with a left-handed crusher!”
• “The Heat getting the payoff on some very crisp passing.”
• “James Jones for 3… Kaboom!”
• “You know where he learned that? At ‘Three Stooges Basketball Camp.’ Close out with a poke in the eye… Hey Moe!”
• “James turned the corner, kept that coming… freight train on an express run right there.”
• “Oh, LeBron with a deflection and a steal. Excellent.”
• “The co-captain [UD] will warrior-up.”
• “Raptors’ shooting percentage going down like a thermometer in the middle of winter in Toronto.”
• “Look out below! LeBron James making a house call to the bottom of the rim.”
• “If your iPad had a battery like Birdman it would be up and running right now.”
• “The Legend of Birdman in Miami continues to grow.”
• “The Birdman of Biscayne Bay…”
• “Oh the steal and the slam by Bosh!” Tony: “That’s a killer right there…”

• “So it takes Miami 73 games to catch and pass Indiana for the number one spot atop the Eastern Conference …Miami’s defense is getting playoff ready.”
• LBJ: “WE can smell the playoffs – they’re right around the corner…”

Miami Heat at Milwaukee Bucks – March 29, 2014 (50th Win, for Ebony)

• “Well you think you have problems? Try out Larry Drew’s shoes, the head coach of Milwaukee bucks. What a miserable year they are suffering through. The bucks have the worst record in the NBA.”
• “The Big Buick Mismatch… Jeff Adrien, you take off your jacket and get ready to jump into the shark tank with LeBron James.”
• “Well the pitbull point guard [Toney Douglas], always relentless.”
• “Well put on your shooting goggles at home – the Heat and Bucks both start shooting 1 for 9.”
• “LeBron with a crusher!”
• “Bosh’s shot trickles off…Is there saran wrap over both rims?”
• “I am still not convinced there is not a lid on that basket!”
• “Brandon Knight on the move, and he throws it into the seats. That even misses the fan it was intended for… I got a good idea what the promotion should have been tonight: blindfolds.”
• “Birdman is the Heat’s best offensive rebounder, and he’s banging that offensive glass here in the first half.”
• “Good ball movement… James Jones is open. Kaboom! … Kaboom, you former Miami Hurricane …we salute your professionalism.”
• “Sort of a blue collar lunch pail here in the 2nd quarter.”
• “So, Coach I gotta ask: is it the Heat’s defense, Milwaukee’s pathetic offense, or a combination of the two?”
• “Battier from downtown, Kaboom!”
• “Adrien, can you please get off James Jones?”
• “The Bucks throw it into the seats again… I feel like we’re in County Stadium in Milwaukee. The Bucks’ passing is like foul balls going into the seats.”

Tony: “Gotta be careful if you’re sitting courtside…”

Eric: “They better put tops on all the soft drinks.”

Tony: “You don’t wanna get a concussion.”

• “Third foul on Jeff Adrien and it looks like Adrien wants to have a talk with James, but James is not interested in that.”
• “You’re taking a risk sitting courtside at the game. Tony, have a seat – a reclining seat. …That is a new definition of a courtside recliner.”
• “U-donis, U-did-it on a bullet pass from Norris Cole.”
• “Long hit ahead, nice catch, touchdown Miami! Udonis, U-did-it again.”
• “You know what you gotta do with the game tape? Burn it… maybe it has something to do with the team they’re playing.”
• “Another block party for Miami under the Bucks’ basket.”
• “Tony, how about the Bucks with 46 through 3 quarters? Pedestrian.”
• “‘Antetokounmpo.’ Try putting that name on your lunch box.”
• “Rashard, nice lean back lay in.”
• “Birdman with the block… Birdman with the rebound, but not for long… Birdman repels the shot… and the Birdman, protecting the nest.”
• “Bird is the word on the glass tonight… the love affair [for Birdman] in Miami is growing and growing, just like his beard.”
• “If you stay up past midnight to watch this game all over again, you need a note from your doctor.”

Miami Heat at Detroit Pistons – March 28, 2014

• “U-donis, U-did-it…. U-donis, U-did-it-again!”
• “LeBron bounce pass for a James Jones three… Kaboom!”
• “Udonis Haslem putting on a show. He’s 6 for 6.”
• “Cole sets up Birdman for the slam dunk – that was pretty.”
• “Birdman on a lob from Cole! A gorgeous dunk!”
• “Bosh… a Ka-Bosh! We’ve been waiting for that…”
• “Some ragged play over the last minute and it continues…”
• “James Jones shoots the tre… Kaboom!”
• “This is just what Miami needed: a 21 point lead.”
• “James Jones for three… Kaboom! You can wake him up out of a deep sleep and he can make a three.”
• “The Heat are united and plugged into this game from the start… they have blitzed the Pistons right out of their own Palace.”
• “Coach, a Palace uprising here by the Heat.”
• “Beautiful tear-drop by Norris Cole.”
• “So through three quarters here at the Palace its the Heat playing like royalty – Miami leads by 32, and yes LeBron you can smile…”
• “Here’s Toney Douglas. He only knows one speed: ‘full.’”

Portland Blazers at Miami Heat – March 24, 2014 (Bosh GW Block on 30th Bday)

• “Chalmers– the durable 6 year point guard.”
• “Here’s Oden… Oh My! Greg Oden, a two-handed crusher…We all hope that Oden’s unfinished business [with Portland] gets finished here in Miami.”
• “Not bad for a point guard there. He got a couple frequent flyers with that.”
• “Off the leg of Lillard…James without the headband!”
• “Reverse Jam for LeBron on the Cole lob. Tony, LeBron has 5 field goals, and 4 of them slam-dunks… Crazy how easy LeBron James makes that look, and, we know it’s anything but easy to be that athletic, and that acrobatic.”
• “Chalmers quick outlet for Douglas, he’s got James… And James got everything!

       o   Tony Fio: “We got a dunk party tonight, featuring LeBron.”

       o   Eric Reid: “James revving up the Heat’s house.”

• “Here comes Toney Douglas. The pitbull out of Florida State.”
• “Tony, interesting approach by Bosh tonight. You know the 3 has become an important part of his repertoire, but its gone south on him lately…Bosh, why not? Ka-Bosh!”

       o   Tony Fio: “Looked like a hot potato for about 3 or 4 passes,        and Bosh just said, ‘I’ll shoot it.’”

• “LeBron’s the kind of guy that knows the temperature – knows what the team needs.”
• “LeBron bumped by Lopez… And a ball that simply would not cooperate.”
• Tony Fio: “If it affects the shot, then it’s a foul.”
• “Ray Allen, gave it a good ride, from Key Biscayne.”
• “Chalmers corkscrewing it in.”
• “Lillard now 3 for 11, and 1 or 6 from downtown. Tony, ever since his 10 point first quarter, the Heat has hit his ‘mute button.’”
• “Bird is the word here in Miami.”
• “Well, Heatnation was clamoring for better defense – they just got a dose of playoff caliber Miami Heat defense… And they ice the game with a score by LeBron, and defensive swat by Mr. Bosh. That’s a Ka-Bosh, with a fork in it!”

 

LBJ GW + CB Block

Miami at New Orleans – March 22, 2014

• “Bosh pinned it to the glass on a Tyreke Evans layup opportunity… the Miami “SWAT” team.”
• “Rio from the corner, Kaboom!”
• “LeBron with a crusher from Norris Cole… they felt that all the way to the bottom of the mighty Mississippi river.”
• “Bird with the steal, and the foul from behind by Davis… that was a quite the big-man foot-race.”
• “Nice runner from Beasley… Such a soft, smooth touch. That’s 4 points in a row for the ‘Beazer.’”
• “Beasley with a right handed crusher, and He just pancaked Anthony Morrow.”
• “LeBron. A ferocious slam, elbows above the rim off the dish from Toney Douglas.”
  • Tony Fio: “Man, it looked like he went off a pogo stick there.”
  • Eric Reid: “Maybe he borrowed Mark Strickland’s pogo-stick, remember the pogo-man back in the 90s? … Let’s watch a pogo-man-flashback, ‘Turbo-Style.’ I love the elbow-above-the-rim salute for the game’s greatest player now, LeBron James.”
• “Beasley doubles-pumps under the rim… Buckets, binging.”
• “LeBron beats the clock, and the Pelican defense.”
• “Allen from the corner – a line-drive Kaboom!”
• “To Allen… He’s open… Unloads… And hits! What a play by Miami! … Well they got Babbitt, we got Ray Allen who runs the court like a rabbit.”
• “Chris Anderson with a crafty score inside.”

• “… This is slow torture for Heatnation.”