Miami, FL
Orlando Magic Adding Two-Time NBA Champion Makes It Tougher For Miami Heat In Southeast
The Miami Heat have dominated the NBA’s Southeast Division, winning 12 titles since 2004.
After failing to win it last season, the gap potentially widened Sunday when teams were allowed to negotiate with free agents. The Orlando Magic, who are the reigning division champs, are planning to add Denver Nuggets guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope once players are allowed to sign.
Caldwell-Pope gives the Magic an experienced scorer to pair alongside rising star Paolo Banchero and forward Franz Wagner. Last year Caldwell-Pope averaged 10.1 points and shot 40.6 percent from the 3-point line.
He won two championships, both against the Heat. In 2020, he was a key cog in the Los Angeles Lakers defeating Miami during the bubble season in Orlando. In 2023, he was a starter on the Nuggets team that knocked off the Heat in five games.
He should help the Magic improve on last year’s 47-35 record after reportedly agreeing to a three-year, $66-million deal. They have one of the league’s top frontcourts in Banchero and Wagner, who combined to average more than 42 points and 12 rebounds.
The Heat, meanwhile, are less flexible than the Magic and Philadelphia 76ers because of salary cap space. They are limited on who they can add as a free agent, so will have to likely part ways with Tyler Herro or Duncan Robinson for any chance of revamping the roster.
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Miami, FL
Police arrest man accused of vandalizing Miami bagel shop; he’s facing hate crime charge
MIAMI – Police announced the arrest Tuesday of a man who they say vandalized a bagel shop in Miami last month.
According to an arrest affidavit from the Miami Police Department, 28-year-old Kenneth Guerrera is facing one count of criminal mischief with prejudice, a hate crime enhancement.
Josh Nodel, the owner of Holy Bagels & Pizzeria, located at 93 NW First St., told Local 10 News that one of his shops was targeted around 4:45 a.m. on June 14.
Numerous volunteers came to clean up the graffiti that read, “Free Palestine End Genocide.”
Surveillance video obtained by Local 10 News showed Guerrera spray painting the message on the shop’s front windows, according to police.
An affidavit stated that Guerrera was also seen ripping down an Israeli flag that was hung above the entrance of the restaurant.
Police said he then proceeded to spray-paint the flag on the ground.
An officer in the area said she identified Guerrera through a Miami police wanted flyer and surveillance video.
After being taken into custody, police said Guerrera agreed to speak with detectives without an attorney, but his full confession was redacted in the publicly released report.
“It’s unbelievable,” Nodel told Local 10 News last month. “It’s an act of violence against the Jewish nation and an act of violence against the law of Florida.”
Nodel reported another incident back in December at Bagel Time Cafe, located at 3915 Alton Road, which had Israeli and American flags vandalized by different suspects since war broke out in the Middle East.
Police arrested another suspect in one of the incidents.
Local 10 News has requested Guerrera’s mugshot after he was not listed as an inmate on Miami-Dade Corrections’ website as of Tuesday evening.
Miami Police Chief Manny Morales released a statement following Guerrera’s arrest which you can read below.
Anyone with additional information is asked to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.
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Miami, FL
Miami Post-Hardcore Band DIME Release Heavy, Cathartic Self-Titled EP: Stream
Do you like really, really big guitar sounds? Guitar sounds so big that they suck up all the oxygen in the room and leave you gasping for breath? Guitar sounds that achieve physical dimensionality, like they’re caverns so large and complex that you get lost there and then make up your mind that you’re just going to live the rest of your life in there? Well, then DIME have you covered. (more…)
Miami, FL
Another Commit For The Miami Baseball Team; First Alert: July 2, 2024
For Jake Ogden, the offseason has been a fun one playing in Cape Cod and now he the most recent player in the the transfer portal. He is now taking his talents to the Miami Hurricanes baseball team where their roster has started to fill out with mostly transfer players.
The 6’, 190-pound Ogden is a Coral Reef High School graduate in Miami and began his career at Barry. After posting a .322/.408/.528 slash line as a freshman, he transferred to UNC Greensboro where he hit .313/.385/.482 with 8 HRs as a sophomore.
Ogden joins C Tanner Smith, 1B Todd Hudson, OF Max Galvin, OF Derek Williams, OF Bobby Marsh, RHP Griffin Hugus, LHP Rob Evans, RHP Will Smith, RHP Reese Lumpkin and RHP Carson Fischer in Miami’s portal class.
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