If you adored Pat Riley’s old-fashioned New York Knicks or Miami Heat teams, then it wasn’t very difficult to become immediately infatuated with the 2021-22 Heat squad.
Behind Jimmy Butler, Bam Adebayo, P.J. Tucker, Kyle Lowry, Markieff Morris and Udonis Haslem, the squad top-to-bottom was derived from the organization’s GUTS™ that bled toughness, breathed grit that consumed diligence for breakfast, lunch and dinner. No matter how the pie was sliced, the Heat were a tremendous pain in the butt to go up against each night, and you could never count them out, no matter who was on the floor.