Hooped Up

The Heat went down in flames yesterday, burned in Dixie as one of the NBA’s most puzzling playoff series came to its merciful end. From the ashes of Miami’s Game 7 flameout to the host Atlanta Hawks emerges the riddle that remains Jamaal Magloire.

The Big Cat turns 31 in a fortnight after failing to turn heads on the hardwood.

No one can say with any degree of certainty how much game the Toronto native has left because he hasn’t been given any consistent minutes for quite some time.

There are those in the NBA who would argue that he hasn’t earned them, that Magloire has taken a step back in each of the seasons following his breakout offensive year in 2003 when he averaged a career-high 13.6 points. Read More »

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After recently taking a look at veteran shot blocker Theo Ratliff, who since has signed with the Philadelphia 76ers, the Heat summoned veteran big men Jamaal Magloire, Lorenzen Wright and D.J. Mbenga to AmericanAirlines Arena. With perimeter-oriented Mark Blount and inexperienced Joel Anthony the only veteran centers under contract, the Heat has looked into a series of big men with the bulk to at least contend with the heft of conference opponents Zydrunas Ilgauskas of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Eddy Curry of the New York Knicks and Brendan Haywood of the Washington Wizards.

South Florida Sun-Sentinel