Contest: Love/Hate The Miami Heat?

I know this is redundant, as all of you may/should already know “The Heatles” are pop-culture, hip-hop, bandswagon-ish SWAG. First, it’s Miami. Second, 06 was a tease, and quite frankly we NEED (NOT WANT) it more than Cleveland, and New York. I mean look at our pro teams (sorry Dolphins & Marlins). In retrospect, the Heat are a legitimately decent, but, ridiculously overrated/overhyped team at the same time. It’s the hype that gets all the haters upset. But only a fool wouldn’t like three superstars (yes CB4 is that deal) on one team, and the potential for some Chips. By the way, they’re starting a trend (see N.Y. Knicks). Plus we all know everybody loves to hate the bad guy, and LeBron pretty much ate the whole pie. Plus “We Da’ Best” (in a DJ Khaled voice). All we do is win…sometimes

I hate the Heat simply because of LeBron. I was SUCH a fan of him when he was in Cleveland because I figured he’d bring balance to the NBA. Making small teams like the Cavs relevant and feared. He was supposed to be the “Chosen One” and King James” and the savior. Instead he went to the dark side. He gave up on his team and took the chicken sh*t route to get a ring. He misled fans like me who believed he was that dude. “There won’t be any pressure to score 30 a night.” Pressure makes diamonds, LeBron! Jordan knew this, that’s why he has a fist full of ‘em. LeBron is basically scoring 30 a night anyway. And to go to a city that doesn’t even care about basketball!! The nerve of this man. Chicago, Cleveland, NY – all these places have a devoted fan base that makes sure players play in front of a packed house constantly. The Garden will NEVER have a “Fan Up” campaign because we LOVE our basketball.

I hate LeBron for p*ssying out and riding D-Wade d*ck. I hate D-Wade for screaming “”EY!!!!!!” every time he goes in for a layup and someone gets too close to him. I hate Chris Bi-osh and the black mouth guard that he flexes whenever he does something right. I hate Mike Bibby for hopping on The Heatles bandwagon. I hate Big Z for throwing basketballs at heads when they ain’t looking. But most of all, I hate Pat Riley for getting an undeserved award. Take away LeBron and Bosh and this team is mediocre. He didn’t sign these players, they asked in because they weren’t men enough to carry a team on their own. Long live the true king: MJ. F-LBJ. Brooklyn don’t love you no more!

That Heatles shirt is nice though.. C’mon Slam, let me win, I’ve bought every issue of the mag since #1 (excluding Kicks). And I haven’t won ANYTHING since that big race to the egg, back when I was a sperm..

i love the heat because they have three superstars in d3, king James, and Big Bosh and they have a good chance of winning a chip this year. i also like the supporting cast as well with players like undious haslem, james jones, and mike miller.

I like the Heat because they have two of the most exciting wing players to watch in today’s game. I like the Heat because they stuck with a three-superstar formula that has been PROVEN to win championships throughout NBA history–people act like the Heat were the first to combine 3 superstars, but almost every championship winner has had at least 2 or 3 future Hall of Famers. Lakers fans in particular seem keen on criticizing the Heat, but the Lakers themselves won 5 championships with 3 superstars (Worthy, Abdul-Jabbar, and Magic).
Also, I’m big on the Heat because they literally represent a breakthrough in ALL sports–not just basketball–for the freedom that players now have in determining their own fates. Players can decide where they want to play and who they want to play with. No more of the double standards where players are expected to be loyal at all costs to their teams, while the organization can dump the player at any time when they feel they can’t use him any longer.
The owners make billions of dollars cutting, waiving, dumping, and trading players left, right and center as they see fit. The Knicks once traded away Patrick freaking Ewing! So why can’t the players honor their contracts and do as they wish? The Heat, in addition to kicking much @ss on the court and proving all the doubters wrong, are showing us that its the players who make the league what it is.

You can’t buy a Championship Title, it’s EARNED!!!! And thinking of buying three franchise players at their prime (or soon to be) is a cheap move to win a title. D-Wade is one of the top SG, Lebron is the top SF and Rupal is top 15-20 big man (even though he’s has no real presence down low!). Yes there was other Big 3′s in the past but they grew to become a Superstar, not Franchise Players joining forces. Imagine Magic/Stockon, Jordan/Starks, Drexler, Kar/Domiquel, Shaq/Olajuwon/Robinson all together and willing to get a pay cut! Oh how the hell does Rupal get more money than Dwade, thats messed up!!!!

Ok so since it took me until tip-off to get past ALL of those long posts…sheesh!!
This isn’t about the “hate” vs the heat. Just showing some sense.
Dwade shouldve come home & had a better chance for multiple chips without the burden(that’s right I said it) of having to play with “friends” to win. Eventually lebrons true colors will show.
Rupaul…err I mean bosh is just along for the ride. He’ll probably leave as soon as more $$$ is dangled in front of him.
The rest of the team with the exception of haslem are just riding the coatails of the “big 3″
Then of course we have the “best overall player in the game” aka lebron james. Simply put, yee cannot be KING til yee developes a true post game. Its a shame that dude is a more athletic version of karl malone & yet he fails to use his size & strength vs smaller players. Against boston, how many times did we see him being guarded by rondo or rayray & he would just pass out of the post. Don’t get me wrong, nice passes, but if you’re the KING…rule all the land. Not just run out the breaks & shoot unbalanced 3s. We all hated “the decision” but the real CHOICE is in CHI-TOWN. Mike had the chance to leave chicago, & even with his distaste for ownership…he stayed…and WON. The championships that the bulls won, weren’t filled with superstars, sure there were a few allstars, but damn. Ill take lil stevie kerr over eddie “chip chasin” house. Good for mike bibby to not get paid for this year after all those years of stealing from sac-town.I could go further, but I’m sure you’ve stopped reading by now…thanks for the shirt.

lebron haters say that even adam morrison has more championship rings than him, but the question is how many rings you have ?

Until last off season I didnt mined the heat, they didnt really concern me but now there hard to ignore, I guess its cos it feels like they’ve tried to buy success.
I hate the heat, respect and success has to be earnt, not bought.
so come on Bulls Beat the Heat!

IM A LONG TIME KNICKS FAN..FROM THE EARLY 90′S TIL NOW I DESPIZED THE PACERS(reggie)..THE BULLS(mj)..& MIAMI(alonzo, timmy)..I STILL DONT THINK THE HEAT IS SPECIAL..BUT I LIKE THE NEW MIAMI..

Look up up in the sky its a bird ‘no’ its a plane ‘no’ its “The 3 Musketeers” King James, Prince of Miami Wade, and General Bosh and they are here 2 win the Finals see u there… Mavs vs Heat 2011…….

Well…let’s see. Why do I love the Miami Heat? Hard to point at one reason…I probably have a few dozen. I’ll try to limit it to a few key moments in the history of the team. I have a bond with them from the first year I moved to Florida…they became a franchise in the 1989 season…the same year I came to South Florida. From their infancy, they were a laughing stock (as most expansion teams are early)and rooting for them was more out of pity than dedicated “love”. I sat in the Miami Arena the second home game in the history of the franchise and my attachment grew from there. They had a rag tag group of guys that played the game poorly and the organization had a long way to go to become viable. When Pat Riley made the decision to come to Miami to take the reigns…..all of a sudden…the Heat were now considered a legitimate “franchise”. Sure, they had a nice little run with guys like Rony Seiklay, Sherman Douglas, Steve Smith…etc..but Riles brought “the heat” (pun intended). We all knew his great work in LA as the leader of the Lakers….and then his time in NY saw a completely different brand of punishing ball that gave him credence yet again. The masterstroke came in the deal for Alonzo Mourning…..then followed it up with the Tim Hardaway addition. These were legitimate NBA All-Star talents (and in Zo, a legitimate franchise player)and the Heat started to build their resume. They won division titles…they won playoff series…they started to make being a Heat fan, a badge of honor instead of a burden of fandom. The building was filled, wars were being waged with the Jordan led Bulls and then the devastating playoff losses to the Knicks at the end of the 90′s. Through it all, Riley kept making promises. Promises of better days. And then….Zo lost his ability to play. And the franchise went back to rebuilding mode. The heart and soul of Miami Heat basketball was shelved. The Heat were again a losing proposition. Sh*t seasons be damned….the 2003 NBA draft made the biggest impact in the history of the Heat. That young kid from Marquette came in and immediately brought fire the franchise had been missing. Young guys like Lamar Odom, Caron Butler, Rafaer Alston and Dwyane Wade made the team one of the most fun to watch for a season….and while it didn’t seem possible, the Heat were just about to be on the verge of even BIGGER things (literally). The idea of Shaquille O’Neal playing ball in the MIA seemed far-fetched to say the least. Leave it to Pat Riley to pull off the biggest coup in the history of his GM efforts. Shaq made the Heat must see tv. He and Wade combined to make the Heat one of the premier teams in the league. After suffering a loss of epic proportions to the Pistons in the ’05 playoffs…Pat retooled and built the first champion level squad in the team’s history. When the moment finally came….me and the rest of the Heat family finally put almost twenty years of justmissed opportunities to rest with a display of 15 Strong, the motto the team adhered too. The effort to get there was not lost on long time, original fans. The days of “could have been” were replaced with “look at us now” and no one could ever say the Heat weren’t champions any longer. However, Pat Riley’s greatest work came a few years after this. The Summer of 2010 turned the Heat into THE MOST DISCUSSED, most hated, most viewed, most wanted and for a guy like me….this team is more fun then EVER before. The jealousy of opposing fans everywhere has fed the beast, so to speak. Bandwagoner’s tried to make it on the Heat train….but true fan’s like me know who’s who. Don’t claim your love, if you have none to give. Lebron James, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade made a business decision and are looking all the smarter for it as each passing playoff game goes by. The immediate future of this franchise is brighter than a July day on Miami Beach. Years of grey days are being washed away with sun splashed days of success and incredible performances. The sweetness of seeing it all unfurl from the beginnings of terribleness to the Heat of NOW is night and day. All those nights watching Sun Sports broadcasts for 23 seasons, seeing failings and celebrations have made it all worth it. Listening to the Coach Tony Forentino and Eric Reid call game action for so long has made them part of the family, so to speak. Remembering the voice of Dr. Jack Ramsey from the past…giving the “LENNNNNNNNARD” call on a Voshon 3 ball still rings in my ears from time to time. So many great memories. Watching one time Heat player Kevin Willis go face to face with a very young C-Webb after Webb threw a huge dunk down on top of Kev’s head…..seeing Charlie Ward get flipped by brother PJ Brown….hearing the female cheers at each home game for the still beloved Brian Grant….watching Michael Jordan (in person) have one of his shi*tiest shooting halves…and then coming on with one of his greatest shooting displays in a torrid 4th quarter that literally sucked the life out of the arena…even though the Heat held on to win it….being torn when during the Bulls 72 win season….Dan Majerle shot the most clutch of shots in Chicago to take a hard fought war…and one of the 10 losses for that legendary Bulls squad….running around the house like a madman…holding my not yet two year old son after Game 6 of the 2006 Finals as if I was carrying a football…having the Heat broadcast team meet my cousin in Jersey last season and put her (and talk about me) in a broadcast thanks to my brother, Jason Jackson…..watching the future I-pad presentation to Lebron, Wade and Bosh 2 weeks before they were sent to them inside the bowels of the Heat’s game film studios on one of the Heat’s IT guys monitors. So many days gone by….so many future days to enjoy. My love is strong. My bond is unbreakable. Me heart beats with them. I am the Miami Heat.

I HATE THE HEAT. Did you hear me? The reason is all because of LeBron. I think he’s a quitter and just “In it for the money, the rings ,the fame” (from What Should I Do? commercial)but I still like DWade and Chris Bosh. But I still respect LeBron and still have a few posters, tickets, and a jersey of him with Cleveland, I am trying to remember the good ol’ days.

Mars, the heat didn’t start a trend. The celtics set-up that blueprint. James even said! How did you miss that as a “heat fan”. Did you miss Boston winning the ‘chip in 2008 and being the best in east for the past couple of years. I mean this year seems like the changing of the guard, but get some facts then come back and see me.

I Love the Miami Heat for many reasons. Firstly, look at all these three guys sacraficed to join forces. They’re changing the game as we know it, and setting up other scenarios like this around the league (NY). Lebron went from the most loved player in the league to the most hated in a matter of seconds with one decision. Talk about sacrafices. Beyond that however, others outside of the big three sacraficed things as well. Look at Mike Bibby. He turned down something like 6 million bucks to join the Heat in hopes of winning a ring.

The fact is I love the Heat because of how they handle themselves more than anything. People want to say “oh they’re just cocky” and this and that, however, look at Kobe Bryant. That clown is the cockiest, whiniest player in the league, but does anyone say anything about him. The big 3 are the most down to earth players probably in the game today, and if you think otherwise you just aren’t paying attention.

With all that being said I could go on and on about why I love the Heat, but I would be typing a 100 page report if I did that.

LETS GO HEAT!!

Many reasons I can mention why I love my HEAT, but I only really need to say one word…. HASLEM. The fact that Coach can say with even three All-Stars who are fierce, hungry for success, dominating on offense and defense, etc, you still have Udonis Haslem doing it all just as good if not better when need be. He more or less is like the Unknown Soldier, and that’s what I see and think of Miami and why I love the team… that intensity.

When Bosh and Wade announced first that they’re signing with the HEAT, I tried to picture the rest of the roster. When LeBron decided to join, I was a bit shocked. Never did I imagine 3 stars joining on one team while still in their prime. Bosh and LeBron did what they could for their respective teams in the 7 years that they were there and was tired of losing. Plus, no rings. I’m sure it was a tough decision for both of them and for Wade who grew up in Chicago. When the season started I knew they wouldn’t blow right out of the gate and honestly didn’t think they’ll win 60, 70 games. Any new team takes time to gel together and make it work. 3 stars on one team in their primes?? It’ll definitely take time. It still felt surreal seeing LeBron and Bosh in HEAT uniforms anytime I watched the games; even til this day. BUT, they came this far and other players came back from injury to come this far. Waiting to see a Miami-Dallas rematch in the NBA Finals and really want Miami to hoist the Larry O’Brien trophy again after 5 years!

I do not like the Heat because they’re simply unlikeable.
There are some semi-legit reasons that’s been repeated many times, but really there’s nothing that major to warrant this amount of disdain.
Much of their bravado and obnoxiousness have been seen before.
The Decision? Tacky, sure. But it’s over.
Joining of forces? Don’t we preach TEAM over the individual? This should be praised then, no?
I can only come to the conclusion that I hate this Heat team simply because I do.
It may not be entirely rational, but I am rooting against them as much as I am rooting for any one team in particular.
GO NON-HEATLES.

*come on

I HATE MIAMI CUSE LEBRON IS TAKING ALL THE FAME FROM WADE AND BOSH. THEY WERE LEADERS ON HIS OWN TEAM NOW IS ONLY LEBRON.

I hate the Miami Heat!!!
6 Words. Lebron James.

I hate the Heat because they have an orrible gameplay… their game is all based on one vs one and only Bron, Wade and Bosh score… the other player take few and bad shoot… and the major thing that i detest is that they WIN despite of all!!! I hope that Pat Riley come down from the office and replace Spolestra (i have nothing against him, but he’s not though enough to coach the Miami trice)! It could be the better team in the heart if he teach how to play the right basket in a sistem which all players really play together!!!

I hate the Miami Heat because their so smug. Their was no reason for “THE DECisION”. The only smart thing that LeBron did this year was admit that Michael Jordan is the better player.

I love the miami heat. I don’t know why everyone hates them. No one got mad at the celtics when they got three of the best players in the NBA together and started winning championships together. I think LeBron should get a ring this year.

shout out to the haters! matter of fact Who really gives about you, other than….? Anybody that loves bball knows Miami has All-Star players. Haters were the biggest fans…every game watching…wishing LBJ or Dwade could rock their home town…lol! Props to all NBA players. But AI is #1…!