Miami Heat Collectibles

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Founded in 1988, the Miami Heat joined the NBA as an expansion team along with the Orlando Magic, Minnesota Timberwolves, and Charlotte Hornets. Key players for the team have been Dwayne Wade, LeBron James, Chris Bosh, Shaquille O'Neal, and...
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Founded in 1988, the Miami Heat joined the NBA as an expansion team along with the Orlando Magic, Minnesota Timberwolves, and Charlotte Hornets. Key players for the team have been Dwayne Wade, LeBron James, Chris Bosh, Shaquille O'Neal, and Jimmy Butler, whose basketball cards and jerseys are widely collected. In addition to memorabilia associated with these retired players and veterans, rookie cards for Tyler Herro have recently been much in demand. Like most expansion teams, the Heat struggled during its first decade or so, but its fortunes began to change when it hired former LA Lakers head coach Pat Riley as its president and coach. In that latter role, in 2006, Riley coached a Heat team led by guard Dwayne Wade to its first NBA Championship. Shaquille O'Neal was also on that team, earning him his fourth championship ring (the other three were won alongside Kobe Bryant when both men played for the Lakers). Then, in 2010, Chris Bosh arrived from Toronto and LeBron James flew in from Cleveland, giving the Heat an almost unprecedented concentration of talent. In the four years that Bosh, James, and Wade played together, the Heat reached the finals every time, losing to the Dallas Mavericks in 2011, beating Kevin Durant and the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2012, knocking off Tim Duncan and the San Antonio Spurs in 2013, and then sputtering in a rematch between the same two teams in 2014. And then there was Alonzo Mourning, who played 11 of his 16 seasons with the Heat, and was the first player on the team to have his number, 33, retired. Mourning, too, was on that 2006 Heat championship team with Shaq and Wade, leading both teams in blocks per game for the series.

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