During today’s 97-93 Heat win over the Bulls, ABC cameras panned to Carmani Boozer, oldest son of Bulls forward Carlos Boozer. It was so reporter Lisa Salters could tell a heartwarming story about Carmani’s complete recovery from sickle cell anemia, but talk quickly shifted to something else.

We’re accustomed enough to seeing LeBron James do amazing things that it takes a lot from him to impress and/or surprise us. The play in the video after the jump, though, did the trick.

The Miami Heat were handed their third straight loss last night, falling 117-104 to the Nuggets. As the final seconds ticked away, a reflective LeBron James took in the scent of defeat.

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We already know Dwyane Wade is talented, but one of my favorite things about him is effort – he doesn’t give up. He’s one of the most aggressive players in the NBA at saving the ball from going out, superstar or not. In this play, he threw a bad alley-oop pass to rookie Norris Cole but made up for it, and in pretty spectacular fashion.

That young man behind Timberwolves’ coach Rick Adelman really did not like that call against the Wolves, but his outfit just might make him a star.

We wrote about Miami Heat fans’ burgeoning love affair with relatively unheralded rookie point guard Norris Cole the other day. We at SportsGrid aren’t Heat fans ourselves, but we do have one in our midst. So we decided: why not have an actual Heat fan write about the excitement of Norris Cole? What follows is exactly that.