ESPN's Bias Against Heat

[jmbflame21]

Has anyone else noticed that they never talk about the heat being in the running for any of the big free agents?

And when they mention who is able to sign 2 max contracts they only mention NY or NJ as the only ones that have the cap space. If I'm not mistaken, don't we have more cap space than NY and NJ??

It just pisses me off how their so called 'experts' leave the heat out of everything.

[Vertical Limit]

It doesn't really matter anymore honestly. They're like this about every South Florida's sports teams. You never hear any news about the Dolphins or Marlins or anything. They just hate Miami.

[Tim_Hardawayy]

Miami is a small market. Well actually, more like a medium market. But for the national media, the only ones that get attention or hype are the large markets.

I really don't care, I knew this was going to happen.

[Chosen01]

They rarely even say LeBron can resign with CLE, which is the most likely out of all the options,its only NYK,Chi, NJ. I'm waiting for them to say LA.

[twix2500]

You have to understand for years the media has been anti-Pat Riley. Because the media is new york influenced. They want Pat to fail! When do they ever report anything positive about Riley when he has tons of it. How many times they talk about good things about the Knicks when there is so much bad, how everyone wants to play for them and but never a star players ever shows up. I keep telling you all, our organization is strong and highly respected around the league, more so than the NY Knicks and Chicago Bulls. Dont let the Media, fool you.

[finsguy939]

It does seem like Broussard avoids mentioning Miami at all costs when it comes to the Lebron sweepstakes. I know its not extremely likely, but with our cap space and D Wade I think we have as good a shot as anybody else does. But its hard to take ESPN serious these days when it comes to those kinds of topics. It feels like there's other motives at work. When they say Lebron to Chicago, New York, or New Jersey(Brooklyn), I can't help but notice that those are cities that ESPN has city specific websites for. Hell, last week people on ESPN were mentioning Dallas as a realistic landing spot for Lebron before Miami and there happens to be an ESPNDallas

[HEATindaHouse]

you get the point....

[kyphi]

It doesn't matter. The Miami Heat get respect enough from the players, and they are the ones signing contracts this summer.

[CoolD]

My theory, is not that they hate Heat that much. Is they hate the idea of Wade and Bron in the same team. I could kind of understand that too.
Because you know they might rather have the talent a bit dispersed.
Bron in NY.
Bosh in Chicago.
Wade and Amare in Miami.
Or something that they get more markets.
Having Wade and Lebron in the same team is not in their best interest.

They see it, imagine if Bird and Magic were on the same team, means less interesting NBA across the board. But hey am Heat fan, I want a dynasty, even if it gets all the league mad at us. I want to be targeted by every fan base.

[Lord Leoshes]

Sorry i didn't read everyone's post just wanted to get strait to the point, no disrespect meant, i'll reread it all later.

Now for you old school guys, you should know that ever since Arison did that tampering he did that brought Pat over from the knicks, that the franchise was sanction, find for it, ESPN has hated on us ever since. Hell even the year we won the championship, nobody ever thought we would win. we were underdogs, & after we won the championship all everyone could say is tht it was a fluke, & thats when Wade was deemed D-Whistle.


This is coming from a guy who will be 40 in July, ignore, & take everything ESPN says about the Heat with a grain of salt.

Oh, & it,s actually gotten better since we drafted the golden boy Wade, cause it was 10 times worse 8/12 years ago.

[Iputsomepantson]

Sportscenter is like Access Hollywood directed towards men.

[fishfuego.]

ESPN and the NBA see this FA off-season as an opportunity to create attention from NBA fans during a time where normally there wouldn't be much at all. (ratings anyone?)
What better than to keep huge markets such as NY and Chicago glued to anything they have to say by making them look as the preferred destination, and of course hyping a team like Miami with the most money and with its own top FA in house would be such an obvious destination that would simply kill anything else related to those top FAs going elsewhere.
Now once and if the FAs decide that Miami is the place, then you'll likely see a storm like news of why the Heat came out of nowhere and left the Cities of GOD in total KO's, and how no one, and I mean, not even Noah and his biblical mind could have guessed it .. Of course everything in the typical ESPN drama like fashion.

[kyphi]

I wish you posted more.

[twix2500]

Remember when Shaq was leaving LA. The media was all saying, how he was going to either Pheonix, Dallas or New York. Then next thing you know, Shaq has been traded to the Miami Heat LOL.