Miami Heat
Current Record: 29-17, Last 10: 6-4
The defending champion Milwaukee Bucks get a lot of attention in the Eastern Conference, as they should, and the Brooklyn Nets have a spotlight cast on them since they have Kevin Durant, James Harden, and Kyrie Irving, but what about the Miami Heat?
This organization is constantly in the playoff picture in the Eastern Conference, but people tend to be very quick to write them off.
Last season, they got swept in the first round of the playoffs and never looked like themselves due to injuries and if we go back one season further, this team was in the NBA Finals!
Jimmy Butler is one of the most underrated and underappreciated players in the NBA right now, Bam Adebayo is one of the most impactful two-way centers in the league and Kyle Lowry is a proven champion at the point guard position. Not to mention, he himself is one of the best all-around talents in the league given his impact on offense and defense!
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With the improvements Tyler Herro has made to his game this season, as well as getting huge contributions from secondary talents off-the-bench like Gabe Vincent, Max Strus, Caleb Martin, and Omer Yurtseven, the Miami Heat have everything they need to not only make it back to the NBA Finals for the second time in the last three seasons but win their fourth title in franchise history.
We mentioned Jimmy Butler is one of the most underappreciated players in the league, but his coach Erik Spoelstra is one of the most underappreciated coaches in the entire league!
The narrative with Spoelstra is that he coached great players with the Heat seeing as they had LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh, but since he took over as the Miami Heat’s head coach ahead of the 2008-09 season, Erik Spoelstra has posted 636 wins, the third-most in the league trailing only Gregg Popovich and Doc Rivers.
The Heat have three All-Stars in Butler, Lowry, and Adebayo, they have one of the best head coaches in the league, they have what looks to be this season’s Sixth-Man of the Year in Tyler Herro, they have the third-best scoring bench in the league, and Miami ranks 8th in the league defensively.
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This Miami Heat team truly is the best team in the Eastern Conference right now and they are only going to get better as they get healthy, especially with former All-Star Victor Oladipo getting ready to return at some point during the second half of the season.
