A new three-year contract deal adds depth and valuable experience to Miami’s backcourt for the upcoming campaign.

In California’s Death Valley National Park, one of the hottest places on Earth, summer temperatures can soar into the 130s F.

No NBA team in recent years has gotten more from undrafted projects than the Miami Heat. And no team has gotten less for those success stories when those player

For the Lakers, probably no player is worth both a look back and a look forward more than Austin Reaves, the one-time undrafted guard from Oklahoma who managed to carve out a starring role for himself in the NBA despite significant odds working against him.

More than 55 million Americans are under heat advisories Friday. Cities under alert include Omaha, Wichita, Oklahoma City, Dallas, Little Rock, then extending southeast to New Orleans, Tallahassee and Orlando.

Hot summers are nothing new for much of the US, but the combination of heat and humidity has taken on a truly antagonistic role this year, pushing us closer to our melting points in an already uncomfortable season.

Heat advisories are in effect this weekend, when it could feel like 100-105 degrees, the National Weather Service forecast shows.

Firefighters in Spain, Portugal and Greece battled ongoing wildfires Friday, an important religious holiday in all three countries, as persistent hot, dry conditions challenged efforts to contain the blazes.

A heat advisory will be in effect until 7 p.m. Saturday for these west-central Alabama counties: Fayette, Greene, Lamar, Marion, Pickens and Sumter. The National Weather Service in Birmingham said the heat index could get as high as 105 degrees this afternoon in those areas.

Two of the state’s biggest columnists jumped into the fray. Dave Barry of the Miami Herald called Central Floridians an uncultured bunch of “low-foreheaded, nose-picking yahoos.” Bob Morris of the Orlando Sentinel fired back. It was Florida Man versus Florida Man before Florida Man was even a meme.