The Miami Heat came in the 1988/89 season, new team in the league as a so-called expansion. The first draft picks Rony Seikaly had this season, Kevin Edwards and Grant Long. The same team lost the first 17 games in his first season and thus constituted a negative record for a new team in the NBA to and the season ended with a record of 15-67. With the poor record they got back with good draft picks Glen Rice, and Sherman Douglas. Slowly, the results of the club better and so could qualify in the 1991/92 season for the first time with a record of 38-44 for the play-offs, where they were, however, the eventual champion Chicago Bulls eliminated the 3-0.
made in 1993/94 to return to the play-offs with the first positive balance 42-40. But here they were defeated in the first round by the Atlanta Hawks 3-2. missing from a crash in the following season to 32-50 and a clear of the playoffs, was hired as coach of the legendary Pat Riley. Similarly, trades Glen Rice is the top scorer in exchange for center Alonzo Mourning to the Charlotte Hornets and point guard this season while Tim Hardaway was committed. The team finished the season again with a record of 42-40 but was again eliminated in the first round by the Chicago Bulls.
But in the following season, were led by Tim Hardaway and Alonzo Mourning, retracted suddenly great success. Similarly, there was also the first success in the playoffs. In the first round, the Orlando Magic in the Conference semi-final against the New York Knicks after 1:3 sediment, 4-3. Only in the Conference Finals, the Heat were in turn defeated by the Chicago Bulls to Michael Jordan. In the following two Years, the Heat played each good seasons where they won the Atlantic Division, but lost both times against the New York Knicks in the first round of the play-offs, and second in the season 1999/00 in the Round of the play-offs. What is remarkable about the duels with the Knicks was that they encountered one another in four consecutive years and went all the series to the fifth or seventh game decision. break in the 2000-01 season had superstar center Alonzo Mourning's career due to kidney damage (he came back to the 2004 season and was again taken by the Heat under contract) and also with the franchise then it went rapidly downhill.
came first in the 2003-04 season, the Miami Heat, now led by young superstar Dwyane Wade, back into the play-offs. With a great run at the end of the season a positive balance was achieved with 42-40 and also the first play-off round was over. But in the ensuing off-season was a major coup. It was the then General Manager Pat Riley, the players Caron Butler, Brian Grant and Lamar Odom to the dominant center of the Lakers to trade Shaquille O'Neal. He led the Heat with Dwyane Wade to a record of 59-23 and into the play-offs in 2005, where they lost but in the Conference Finals the Detroit Pistons to seven games.
The upward trend was continued in the following season. Way, it could the team the rematch against the Detroit Pistons and the first Conference title in their history could be retracted. In the finals they played against the Dallas Mavericks after all. After the first two games were lost, the Heat managed to win four games in a row, and thus won the first NBA championship.
source: wikipedia.de
I must thank Dywane Wade, because he helped Miami Heat to win the pot! yeah yeah!
