Dwyane Wade has taken his team and put it on his back recently. In his last 5 games, D-Wade is averaging 38.4 minutes, 30.8 points, 6.8 rebounds, 5.2 assists, 2.6 steals and 1.4 blocked shots per game. D-Wade has now played in 73 games (all starts) this season for the Heat and he is averaging 36.2 minutes, 26.6 points, 4.9 rebounds, 6.6 assists and 1.9 steals per game. The Heat better hope that they can convince D-Wade to re-sign with him over the summer or it will be rebuilding time in Miami.

The Heat have re-signed 26-year old power forward Shavlik Randolph. Randolph played in 2 games (0 starts) earlier this season for the Heat in which he averaged 11.5 minutes, 1.0 point and 3.5 rebounds per game. In 5 games (0 starts) for the Blazers & Heat this season, Randolph is averaging 5.8 minutes, 1.2 points, 1.6 rebounds and 0.2 assists per game. The Heat needed another big body with injuries along the front line and they hope Randolph will help them out some the rest of the year.

The Miami Heat were on top of their game in March, finishing the month 12-3 and putting themselves only 1/2 game out of the 5th spot in the Eastern Conference standings.  Their leader Dwyane Wade had a great month of March.  He had six games where he scored 30 points or more and also had five games where he had 10 assists or more.  For the month, he ended up averaging 26.9 points, 7.5 assists, 5.5 rebounds, 2.3 steals, and 1.0 blocks.  Those are all above his season averages.  Wade got some great help from his supporting cast as well.  Guys like Jermaine O’Neal, Udonis Haslem, and Carlos Arroyo all had some nice contributions over the past month.  The Heat have obviously been hot, and after a 98-81 blowout win Wednesday over the Detroit Pistons, they have now won six in a row heading into the final stretch of the season.  They only have seven games left, and all seven of those games are against some pretty weak opponents.  All seven of their final opponents have records well below .500.  The toughest team left on their schedule is the 28-47 Indiana Pacers.  The only negative for the Heat right now is that Jermaine O’Neal is battling a knee injury, which forced him out of Wednesday night’s win.  Still, the Heat should be pretty confident as the season winds down and I expect them to beat out the Milwaukee Bucks for the 5th seed in the Eastern Conference Playoffs.  The Bucks have a much more difficult schedule down the stretch, and the Heat are red hot.