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On an August day during the NBA lockout, Insider contributor and Heat Indexier Tom Haberstroh wrote this: You are Pat Riley. It's December 2011. The lockout has come and gone. The salary cap has been sliced, leaving the Miami Heat organization wi...

There's some great, smart stuff out there on the interwebs: Tom Haberstroh and I's Five things to watch John Hollinger at ESPN.com (Insider) Chris Forsberg & I at ESPN Boston Zach Lowe at SI.com's The Point Forward Kelly Dwyer at Yaho...

When you work closely with Tom Haberstroh, you learn lots of cool stuff and terms like "arbitrary endpoint." We see this phenomenon at work all the time in sports. A team is 13-1 since Feb. 3, or a player is shooting 57 percent from beyond the arc si...

As Tom Haberstroh has described, Erik Spoelstra uses his center rotation much the way a baseball manager uses a bullpen. Spoelstra has a stable of centers, each of whom provides the Heat with different attributes. When Spoelstra needs speed and athle...

Tom Haberstroh and I will be hosting the Heat Index's inaugural SportsNation chat on Monday afternoon at 3 p.m. Eastern Time. You can submit a question here. We'll address a whole range of stuff. Among the subjects we enjoy chatting about: LeB...

Several NBA teams have finalized their rosters this week -- and so has the Heat Index. We're thrilled to introduce Tom Haberstroh as the most recent addition to our team. Today, there are infinite ways to look at pro basketball. No two writers wil...

Tom Haberstroh of Hardwood Paroxysm looks at which players produced the least amount of value relative to their salaries last season: "The cases of Tracy McGrady, Yao Ming, and Michael Redd illustrate the devastating effects that a serious injury can...

If you're not reading Tom Haberstroh's explorations into the nuances of the pro game, you're missing out. Among Haberstroh's conclusions at Hardwood Paroxysm today: "[T]he ability to finish at the rim (as measured by at rim FG percentage) is more str...