Miami Heat: Reliving The 10 Most Memorable Performances Of The Season
By Frank Urbina
As we close the book on the 2016-17 season, let’s start off by looking back at the 10 best performances by a Miami Heat player this year.
The 2016-17 NBA season is over for the Miami Heat. After an incredible (albeit improbable) run in the second half of the year — which saw the team win 30 of their final 41 contests — Miami ultimately fell painfully short of their biggest goal, to make the playoffs.
In the end, a tiebreaker is what separated them from the Chicago Bulls for a spot in the postseason. Just a tiebreaker. It stinks, but such is life sometimes.
These guys deserved some sort of recognition for the 60-win pace they were on after January, but in any case, the year served as great experience for young players like Hassan Whiteside, Tyler Johnson and Josh Richardson, who are all still learning the ins-and-outs of life in the NBA.
Nonetheless, it was an anti-climactic (and abrupt) end to the year for the Heat. We can look back at countless tight losses. We can complain about a missed call here or there that decided an outcome. Or we could even bring up Miami’s horrid 11-30 start. But after such an immaculate close to the season, why be negative?
Although about half of the active roster is set to hit free agency (chief among them Dion Waiters and James Johnson), we don’t have to worry about that for another few months. Instead, I say we remember the good times first. And there were plenty to choose from.
Let’s look back at the 10 most memorable individual performances of 2016-17 Heat season that was.