On Sunday, a sold-out crowd at the O2 saw, for the second year in a row, a stellar example of what makes the NBA such a popular attraction in the States: sheer, unbridled athleticism by players whose every spring seems to inviolate the laws of gravity. This pre-season "exhibition game" - friendly, in other words - pitted the Miami Heat against the New Jersey Nets, with Heat's Dwyane Wade and the Nets' Vince Carter......

After last year's popular pre-season game between the Boston Celtics and the Minnesota Timberwolves at the O2 arena, the NBA are coming back and this time the Heat are on. They'll be practicing with some Nets as the teams from Miami and New Jersey face each other on October 12th in what will effectively be a second leg to their Paris friendly three days earlier. James Bidwell, chief executive of Visit London, commented: The......