Are the Miami Heat pretenders? #heatnation #podcast #heatculture #miamiheat #nba
I am the prosecution poking holes in Miami’s status as a contender here’s where here we go with the opening statement the 1995 Houston Rockets the 1969 Boston Celtics the 2020 Miami Heat what do all these teams have in common they got to the NBA finals in those
Seasons as a lower seed and then did diddly squat the very next year those 1995 Houston Rockets the six se made it to the NBA finals congratulations to those Houston Rockets they lost in the second round pretty swiftly the very next season the 1969 Boston Celtics made
The playoffs as the fourth seed missed the playoffs the very next season the 2020 Miami Heat who we can all remember made the NBA Finals as the fifth seed in the East got swept in the first round the very next year no team that has ever made the finals as worse than number
Four seed has ever returned to the finals in the very next season
