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
Read the latest articles about the Miami Heat:
According to a 2014 Wall Street Journal article, Dwyane Wade is the most misspelled name in sports, ahead of Miikka Kiprusoff and Mark Buehrle.
Former Miami Heat superstar Dwyane Wade had close ties to his imprisoned role model while he was growing up.
If Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo doesn’t become a free agent, the Miami Heat will shift to Plan B.
Bam Adebayo was a huge part of the Miami Heat’s NBA Finals run last season, and he’s just been rewarded with a $163 million max contract.
When LeBron James left the Miami Heat in 2014 there was a long list of disappointed NBA fans, and Chris Bosh was one of them.
Jimmy Butler has a chance to do something that’s been done only once in NBA Finals history but that would mean the Miami Heat would have to lose the series.
Miami Heat veteran point guard Goran Dragic remains out of the NBA finals with a torn plantar fascia suffered in Game 1.
For Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat, there’s no panic button despite being down 3-1 against the Los Angeles Lakers.
LeBron James has evolved tremendously since losing to the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Finals. Mark Cuban recently detailed his evolution.
While the Miami Heat are facing an uphill climb against the LA Lakers, they did receive some good news about one of their injured players.
