Last night, a Dwayne Wade pass to Shawn Marion (for a dunk!) won the Miami Heat the game… at the buzzer. Great highlight and great play.

Today…. the Heat said, thanks Shawn Marion! But you and your expiring $17.8 million contract are being shipped to Canada.

Talks between the Suns and Portland Trail Blazers about Amare Stoudemire have unraveled, CBSSports.com has learned. Phoenix is now focused on Eastern Conference teams — and not just Chicago. The Bulls remain a serious contender due to Drew Gooden’s expiring contract and Larry Hughes’ expiring deal next season, plus the largest expiring trade exception in the league ($5.2 million).

It’s official folks. Alonzo Mourning has retired from professional basketball today. Or, at least for now. It appears that years of injuries has finally caught up with Mourning who is still recovering from a knee injury from December of 2007.
Alonzo will be missed, but he might also be the first Miami Heat player to have [...]

NBA insiders list the Chicago Bulls and Miami Heat as teams with playoff aspirations that could use Jermaine O’Neals interior presence. He was averaging 15.3 points a game and 5.9 rebounds on 52.2 per cent shooting in just 29 minutes of court time in December before getting hurt.

Insiders have speculated the Bulls may be able [...]

Over at my day-job at ToTheTin.com, we’ve wheeled out a huge post about the NBA trades that each team needs to do right now.  Because I wasn’t the one who wrote it, I’m a bit jealous. Here are five moves that need to happen before the NBA trade deadline…
Dallas receives Monta Ellis, Anthony Randolph and [...]

If it turns out that Zydrunas Ilgauskas has a serious injury, the Cavs may have to trade for a big man such as Brad Miller, who may be available. That would probably mean parting with Wally Szczerbiak, who has one year and $12 million left on his contract. Right now, the Cavs are not moving [...]