Heat opens second half of season with win over Rockets: Playing the first game of the second half of its season, the Heat on Tuesday delivered something more impressive than anything it accomplished in the dreary first 2 ½ months of the post-Dwyane Wade era. In a matchup of the second-highest-scoring and second-lowest-scoring teams in the league, the Heat rode a 20-5 run late in the game to surprise Houston, 109-103, providing the season’s home highlight for a Heat team that entered 5-13 at AmericanAirlines Arena. -- The Miami Herald
Whiteside, feeling overlooked in voting, offers eye-opening theory: Miami Heat center Hassan Whiteside feels he is being overlooked in All-Star voting, so much so that he made an interesting claim on Tuesday.