Kansas City News Blog

​If you read this morning's Kansas City Star, you wouldn't know that the Miami Heat and the New Orleans Hornets are playing tonight at the Sprint Center -- unless you saw the tiny ad on page three of the sports section.

Two of the NBA's biggest stars -- Dwayne Wade and Chris Paul -- are in Kansas City and not even a tiny story on B9? Even with all of the local ties -- former KU stars Julian Wright and Mario Chalmers and Kansas State's Michael Beasley. Maybe I missed the story (I didn't). The Star pisses all over itself for hockey -- hockey? -- and we can't even get a tiny preview saying who's playing. Embarrassing. Here's the likely starting lineups:

Miami Heat
F -- Udonis Haslem
F -- Michael Beasley
C -- Jermaine O'Neal
G -- Dwayne Wade
G -- Mario Chalmers

New Orleans Hornets
F -- David West
F -- Julian Wright
C -- Hilton Armstrong (Emeka Okafor sat out the last game with a foot injury)
G -- Devin Brown
G -- Chris Paul

D-Wade skipped last night's game with the Seattle SuperSonics Oklahoma City Thunder due to a rib injury. Or he was hosting a pre-party for tonight's game at Lucky Strike in the Power & Light District. If Wade does play tonight -- and there's a chance he will -- I wouldn't expect him to get a lot of minutes (although Heat coach Erik Spoelstra played his starters major minutes in last night's loss to the Zombie Sonics).

CP3 was also at Lucky Strike last night. He tweeted about it, and how impressed he is with the Sprint Center.

​Paul is arguably the best all around player in the league.

More on the game tomorrow from Hardwood Paroxysm's Matt Moore.