2008-09 Season preview: The Miami Heat

15-67 was a feat accomplished by the Miami Heat only one time before and that was its inagural season which featured Heat great Rony Seikaly. Two years after beating the Dallas Mavericks for the NBA title, the Heat have fallen off—and I mean off. No team has done this bad two years after a championship (I'm used to it, Im a Florida Marlins fan). But even after an abysmal season where it looked like the Heat reached rock bottom, the team shows nearly as much promise as any other team in the NBA thanks in part to its new pickups and an A+ plus draft. The Miami Heat have taken a different approach by departing with some of its veteran players in return for young players that show alot of promise. Ricky Davis, Jason Williams, Earl Barron and most of its D-league players have all been released or sent to another team to make room for it's new batch of young players.  No. 2 pick Michael Beasley adds new young firepower to the Heat and will surely help the Heat in a run back to the ... (link)