ORLANDO -- You can hear the clock ticking now on Pat Riley and the Miami Heat.
When the trade deadline came and went last month, when neither Amar'e Stoudemire nor Carlos Boozer landed in South Beach, it raised the stakes unbelievably in Miami for this much-anticipated free agency summer.
Tick ... tick ... tick ... .tick ...
For Miami, it's going to be all or nothing, either unbelievable joy or inconceivable sorrow. Either heaven or hell for the franchise.
The Heat either must convince one of the other big-name free agents to join them -- LeBron James, Chris Bosh, Joe Johnson, Stoudemire or Boozer -- or Dwyane Wade will be leaving town, sinking them to the depths of the NBA.
You can see it in his play, his body language now. He deserves better than what the Heat have given him.
Wade returned to action Sunday night after missing the previous four games with a strained calf muscle, and he probably wished he had stayed on the sideline a little longer. He had 17 points by halftime, but he ran out of gas in the second half, finishing with 21. There was no one there to bail him out.
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