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The Miami Heat are a professional basketball team based in Miami that competes in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Heat formed in 1988 as an expansion franchise and have since made the playoffs 24 out of 35 seasons, captured 16 division titles, seven conference titles, and three NBA championships.
Indiana and Miami met again for the first time since 2014 in the 2020 playoffs with the Heat sweeping the Pacers in the first round. Indiana was led by Victor Oladipo, Malcolm Brogdon, T.J. Warren and Myles Turner. The Heat were led by Jimmy Butler, Bam Adebayo, Goran Dragic, and Tyler Herro, who ended up reaching the 2020 NBA Finals.
This was the Miami Heat's fourth appearance in the NBA Finals and the third appearance for three straight years, attempting to win their third NBA championship. The Heat finished with the best regular season record, recording a league leading 66 wins, and first place in the Southeast Division .
The Pacers (44-34) hold the No. 6 seed in the Eastern Conference; the Heat (43-34) are No. 7. One week remains in the regular season.
Tyler Herro had 24 points and 14 assists, hitting six of Miami's 23 3-pointers — the most in a playoff game in franchise history — to lead the Heat to a 111-101 victory over top-seeded Boston ...
The Miami Heat’s historic playoff run is over. The Nuggets are NBA champions.
The Celtics–Heat rivalry is a National Basketball Association (NBA) rivalry between the Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat.. Since first meeting in 1988, the Celtics hold an 83–53 lead in the rivalry's regular season series, while the Heat hold a 4–3 lead in playoff series; the teams are tied at 21–21 in individual playoff games.
The Miami Heat joined the league in the 1988–89 season, but they did not rise to prominence until they hired Pat Riley to be their head coach and president before the 1995–96 season. In Riley's first stint, the Heat were playoff regulars between 1996 and 2001, however, the Chicago Bulls and New York Knicks always thwarted Miami's dreams of ...