Top 5 best players in Miami Heat history

Top 5 best players in Miami Heat history

The five who wrote the history of this team in the NBA

The Miami Heat are one of the most interesting teams in the National Basketball Association this century. The Hotties have won three championships in the United States and Canada, and have many fans around the world thanks to some of their famous competitors. Even if you are not that interested in sports, and in particular the NBA, you can certainly think of two - Dwayne Wade and LeBron James. However, we will add three more players to them and in the following lines we will offer you our top five of the best players who came through the team from the state of Florida.

In the fifth position, we would put Tim Hardaway. Not the one who is currently part of the Dallas Mavericks team, but his father who spent 5 years with the Miami team. The point guard was part of the Heat team in the years from 1996 to 2001. Years in which he is one of the main contributors to the Heat always reaching the playoffs. Known for his knack for making big baskets, Hardaway is a killer scorer who knows how to guard the ball, excels with speed and accurate long-range shooting. Already at the end of his first season for Miami, he was selected to the NBA's ideal team and is a candidate for the most valuable player for the regular season, averaging 20.3 points and 8.6 assists per game. There is nothing accidental about the fact that his number 10 is no longer used by Heat players.

A little ahead we put a basketball player, better known for his performances for the Los Angeles Lakers, but also left his lasting mark in Florida, where he puts on his fourth ring and brings Miami's first title. It's about Shaquille O'Neal. The center, who dominated the NBA at the end of the last century and the beginning of this century, went through the Heat in the years between 2004 and 2008. Many people thought that he was already far from his best years, but together with Dwayne Wade, the dream of the team's fans came true. A year earlier, he managed to lead the team to the conference finals, but there Miami lost to the Detroit Pistons. Shaq definitely helped the Hots get on the big stage as well as Dwyane Wade put the number one ring on his hand. And the number 32 that O'Neal wears is now retired.

Alonso Morning enters the top three. Another center, but with quite a few more seasons within two stints in Miami. Another champion from 2006, when he was nearing the end of his racing career. Morning spent 8 seasons between '95 and 2003 in Miami before moving on to the New Jersey Nets for one campaign before returning for three more with the Heat. The center was able to enter the ideal team for the 98/99 season and win the love of the team's fans extremely quickly. And if our fifth-ranked guy, Tim Hardaway, was Miami's leading scorer in the 1990s, Morning is the most dominant player in that span. In fact, the 208-centimeter giant partnered perfectly with Hardaway, and Miami made a bid to become one of the best teams in the NBA at the end of the last century.

The second position is for "The King" - LeBron James. A man who merged with Miami to become a great champion and start talking about him like they did after the first titles of Michael Jorda, Kobe Bryant and other greats in the association. After 7 seasons in Cleveland and 2 consecutive MVP awards in the regular season, LeBron realized that there was no way to win the title with Cleveland at this stage and in the summer of 2010 he headed to Florida, where he spent four seasons that Miami fans call it the most exciting in team history. Two titles, two Finals MVP awards, two more regular-season MVP awards and, of course, teammates like Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade, with whom James turned the Heat into one of the dominant teams in the league. Of course, everyone remembers the crushing Finals in 2011 when Dirk Nowitzki led the Dallas Mavericks to a little-expected title, but LeBron and company crushed the competition in the next two campaigns. After a fourth consecutive Finals, but second loss, James decided it was time for a change. It's time to return home to Cleveland, where he'll also earn the fans' love, earning accolades like he did with Miami.

And at number one we find the man everyone associates with the Miami Heat. A man without whom neither LeBron nor Chris Bosh would have done this, nor the "hot" would have more than one title, although he was also part of the success in 2006. In fact, the biggest star of the team, who participated in all three triumphs. Dwyane Wade began his career in the NBA precisely in the team from Florida, where he spent 13 years, followed by two short stays in Chicago and Cleveland, where he reunited with LeBron, but everything ended with another season, a little more delight for the fans and applause, which Wade will earn with his minutes on the floor. Voted Finals Most Valuable Player with the Dallas Mavericks in 2006, the guard promised that this wouldn't be the only ring he would put on his hand with the Miami team, and he kept that promise. Twelve consecutive All-Star appearances, leading scorer in 2009, All-Star MVP a year later, selected to two All-NBA all-season teams. All of these individual accolades add to an illustrious career that has turned Dwyane Wade into a true Miami icon.