The Miami Heat's LeBron James photographed using Profoto D1 Monolight Studio Kit with Air Remote and a Canon 5D Mark III, Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II USM Zoom Lens
during Heat Media Day. Photo by Al Diaz
The 2012 Championship Ring Ceremony. Photo by Al Diaz
Miami Heat targeted as team seeks
championship three-peat
The reigning two-time NBA champions
open their season Tuesday night, and their rivals are more motivated than ever
to topple them.
BY JOSEPH GOODMAN
Mark Cuban, owner of the last team to
defeat the Miami Heat in an NBA Finals, recently uttered the names Micky Arison
and Al Davis in the same sentence while comparing Arison’s Heat with Davis’
Oakland Raiders.
Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah has
forever called the Heat “Hollywood as hell.”
The Indiana Pacers, which have made
losing to Miami in the playoffs an annual event, think the Heat gets away with
cheating on defense and believe this so passionately that their coach once paid
thousands of dollars in fines to say it publicly. Read more here.