Miami Heat
The Miami Heat is a basketball team that competes in the NBA’s Eastern Conference Southeast Division. The Miami Heat formed in 1988 as an expansion team. After a few years of mediocrity, the Heat became championship contenders in the late ‘90s and won their first championship in 2006.
Notable former players include Dwyane Wade, LeBron James, Alonzo Mourning, and Shaquille O’Neal. Wade and O'Neal led the Heat to its 2006 title, while Wade, James, and Chris Bosh helped the Heat claim NBA Finals titles in 2012 and 2013. A unique thing about the Heat? It retired the No. 23 in honor of Michael Jordan, even though he never played for the Heat.
- Established: 1988
- Head coach: Erik Spoelstra
- Governor: Micky Arison
- Arena: FTX Arena (previously AmericanAirlines Arena)
- Number of NBA championships: 3
- Colors: Black, red and yellow
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LeBron James and Miami Heat president Pat Riley may have had an emotional divorce when James went back to Cleveland, but Riley just gave The King the ultimate compliment.
Gary Payton recently said Shaquille O'Neal became frustrated while on the Heat before he later had a talk with him about Miami being Dwyane Wade’s team.
Jeff Van Gundy followed in Pat Riley's footsteps as head coach of the New York Knicks and also shared Riley's willingness to mix it up in brawls.
What teams have had the most wins and losses on NBA Christmas? The question has multiple answers.
Alonzo Mourning suffered a devastating knee injury in 2007 that he knew was career-ending, but he never considered leaving the court on a stretcher.
The NBA barely tapped the Bulls and Heat on the wrist after cases of overt tampering during free agency. The message is that anything goes.
Bam Adebayo suffered a torn UCL in his right thumb and will now undergo surgery, which severely hurts the Miami Heat's chances of earning a top seed in the Eastern Conference.
The Morris twins may have finally met their match, as Nikola Jokic's brothers just called them out on Twitter after the violent incident between the Nuggets and Heat.
With the Miami Heat struggling to establish any semblance of momentum in the 2006 NBA Finals, Shaquille O'Neal took it upon himself to send a message to Dwyane Wade. Flash responded with one of the most epic individual runs in Finals history.
Pat Riley is a nine-time NBA champion, winning as a player, assistant coach, head coach, and executive. But the Dallas Cowboys nearly created a dramatic shift in the time line back in 1967.
