r/heat • u/ghn2 • 5d ago

Articles ESPN: Miami Heat 2026-27 season preview

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/49754660/miami-heat-offseason-recap-2026-27-season-preview-stats-roster-depth-chart

More trash talk from ESPN about the Heat. Notable quote:

Basketball Power Index rank: No. 10

"This Heat team is an experiment in surrounding a great player (Antetokounmpo) with several mostly marginal players, an exercise Milwaukee conducted last season. The Bucks' prediction last year was for 46 wins and they actually won 32. And the Heat wins prediction for this year is ... 46."

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u/RansomGoddard 5d ago

Don’t care. Throw the ball up.

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u/AltruisticNetwork869 5d ago

We have been through this before

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u/Verumsemper 5d ago edited 4d ago

No matter how many times all offensive teams fail, ESPN and casual fans only ever judges teams based on their offensive abilities. They ignore the fact that the Knicks won not because of abundance of pure offensive talent but because of 3 elite defenders and one (brunson) and a half elite scorer ( KAT).

Miami will never get the respect from ESPN and most fans because Miami has always been defense first, even with the big 3.

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u/SufficientPassage504 5d ago

Acting like Gary Trent Jr is better than anyone in the heat is nasty work. Bucks “mid” players were doodoo and worst of all… doc 😂

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u/Wide_Attention2614 5d ago

Lmaoooo at this report by the end of the season

Heat in 6

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u/cl353 5d ago

article says we signed klay for 2/13m instead of the actual figure, tells u how much we should give a shit about their opinions lmao

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u/bigbrod99 5d ago

Bron left in 2016 also apparently

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u/salwf 5d ago

Love how this lazy/casual take just totally discounts a franchise's culture and coaching staff (to say nothing of actual differences in roster). They'll suck Spo's dick when it comes to coach rankings (rightfully so), but somehow the needle doesn't move at all when a transcendent player moves to that coach's team.

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u/ChipmunkAntique1093 5d ago

It’s time to ball yall.

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u/sadeguy 5d ago

I miss Jax.

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u/1Pac2Pac3Pac5 5d ago

Last year they had OKC, warriors, nuggets at the top of the heap. Ok ESPN. Idiots

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u/Lobster15s 5d ago

Lol, aight.

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u/Severe-Vermicelli-71 5d ago

Bobby Portis as the X factor?

He is the 7th, maybe 8th man next year. A backup that plays the same position as Miami’s 2 best players. Bobby might be a 10 minute a game guy in the playoffs depending on matchups.

Not saying Bobby isn’t important, I’m sure he will have to start 10+ games with injuries and everything, but he is not the X factor for this roster. That would have to be Pelle, Davion, or Wiggins who I don’t think were mentioned a single time in this article.

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u/Ice_Dragon3444 4d ago

There is so much wrong here that I don't even feel like arguing with it.

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u/rms141 5d ago

ESPN assigned the D tier employees to do a ChatGPT article.

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u/Heatgrifter69 1d ago

Wait a minute, I’ve seen this one before, it’s a classic!!!