As hated as the current Warriors are, no team since 2000 was hated like 2010-2014 Miami Heat. None.

[Marco Andretti]

I totally agree.

I hated no other team more than that Miami squad . .

Even this Cleveland squad doesn't compare .

Actually besides.me not being LeBron fan ...i don't have problem wit their team .. I fukk wit kyrie.. jr. TT..

But I hated bosh..lol hated Chalmers lol Haslem...i can go on the whole team smh .

 

[CarltonJunior]

After the championship no one in the media hated them, and they had plenty of bandwagon fans

 

[Freddie.Cane]

After the championship no one hated them, and they had more fans than anything.

 

[CarltonJunior]

Had to adjust the statement because I knew it would be misinterpreted. Check my edit

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

Heatles were one of the best things to ever happen to the nba. Were legit rockstars. League ain't been the same since.

I totally agree.

I hated no other team more than that Miami squad . .

Even this Cleveland squad doesn't compare .

Actually besides.me not being LeBron fan ...i don't have problem wit their team .. I fukk wit kyrie.. jr. TT..

But I hated bosh..lol hated Chalmers lol Haslem...i can go on the whole team smh .

For once in what felt like ages, we had a whole team that was the focal point instead of just one player. The three of them all collectively said "fukk what the narratives and critics say, I want to be teammates with my best friends and win titles as a team".

They were in a high profile market with a legendary figure as their president, they had legit certified goons like Udonis on the roster, who along with his old college roommate Mike Miller both left money on the table to be part of the team. There were strong personalities all over the organization that got reactions from the people. They had great respect for the Celtics for being the inspiration for them all linking up, but had legit rivalries with them and the bulls and the pacers in the east, not to mention how everyone wanted to see them play Los Angeles in the finals each year until Kobe got hurt. These are the big differences between that era and since LeBron went back to the cavaliers. It's seemingly solely about LeBron again and there's no dominant personality besides him. There's no long standing history of excellence like the previous 15 years for the Heat had before him. They were a bottom feeder prior to drafting him and were a lottery team each year he was in Miami, so they weren't able to make anyone actually pay attention to them during that time beyond legit cavaliers fans. I don't think you can try to promote the narrative of them being this beloved team because of just how heavy the league and espn pushed the agenda of wanting LeBron to go back while he was in Miami (it tends to detract from it feeling organic at all) and the nature of how fishy it was that they won 3 of the 4 lotteries while he was gone despite not having the best chance at any point. At the same time, you can't market them as a villain because LeBron did exactly what everyone was telling him to do for 4 years and you can't market a team in a small market that's historically been terrible as a villain. It just doesn't work.

Basically, the Heat were a breath of fresh air because they gave us a lot to care about beyond LeBron. I just can't get amped up about watching the cavaliers for some reason. I had the permanent :Popcorn: for those Heat teams. For this team it's more . That's not even meant as a dig at any players or the cavaliers. It feels like business as usual for David Stern's NBA, for which my general reaction is "been there done that ". I always prefer the notion of team over individual in a team sport. That happens to be what drew me to the ravens in the first place. A foundation built on defense which happened to have a lot of strong personalities that all had to work well together for the defense to be effective. Can't really market one guy on a defense when everyone has to pull their own weight.

 

[feelosofer]

Nope Warriors are the most hated team of all time at this point and I grew up when the Lakers and Celtics were both hated.

 

[Primetime21]

Players in the league hated them too

K Love:

"Oh yeah, great amount of joy out of it. Plus, for me, they say nice guys, good guys finish last. But Dallas, they just had a slew of great guys and veterans on their team that made for just a great team. It wasn’t just two, three, four guys on the team, like Miami I kind of felt it was. Around the league, it was kind of a consensus that guys were happy."

Hyprocrite. We got something for yo bytchass in a couple of weeks though

 

[Primetime21]

I just wanna know how come Bosh and Wade never catch any shyt over that super team tho.

I mean, I KNOW why.
But I'm saying.

Wade was a champion and it was HIS team. Maybe if Wade had tucked his tail and ran to Cleveland after losing to Boston in the playoffs you would have an argument

 

[timothy_strickland]

mario chalmers had a face you could punch the shyt out of, his smirk

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

mario chalmers had a face you could punch the shyt out of, his smirk

Man had "Mr. clutch" inked on his arm . After LeBron's legs cramped up and he had to check out of game 4, Mario tells Wade "give me the ball. I'm gonna put the dagger in them ". Then he did just that by going at their best rim protector

 

[Remote]

Wade was a champion and it was HIS team. Maybe if Wade had tucked his tail and ran to Cleveland after losing to Boston in the playoffs you would have an argument

It wasn't Bron's team in Miami is what you're saying.

Wade wasn't part of orchestrating the Big 3 is what you're saying.

 

[timothy_strickland]

For once in what felt like ages, we had a whole team that was the focal point instead of just one player. The three of them all collectively said "fukk what the narratives and critics say, I want to be teammates with my best friends and win titles as a team".

They were in a high profile market with a legendary figure as their president, they had legit certified goons like Udonis on the roster, who along with his old college roommate Mike Miller both left money on the table to be part of the team. There were strong personalities all over the organization that got reactions from the people. They had great respect for the Celtics for being the inspiration for them all linking up, but had legit rivalries with them and the bulls and the pacers in the east, not to mention how everyone wanted to see them play Los Angeles in the finals each year until Kobe got hurt. These are the big differences between that era and since LeBron went back to the cavaliers. It's seemingly solely about LeBron again and there's no dominant personality besides him. There's no long standing history of excellence like the previous 15 years for the Heat had before him. They were a bottom feeder prior to drafting him and were a lottery team each year he was in Miami, so they weren't able to make anyone actually pay attention to them during that time beyond legit cavaliers fans. I don't think you can try to promote the narrative of them being this beloved team because of just how heavy the league and espn pushed the agenda of wanting LeBron to go back while he was in Miami (it tends to detract from it feeling organic at all) and the nature of how fishy it was that they won 3 of the 4 lotteries while he was gone despite not having the best chance at any point. At the same time, you can't market them as a villain because LeBron did exactly what everyone was telling him to do for 4 years and you can't market a team in a small market that's historically been terrible as a villain. It just doesn't work.

Basically, the Heat were a breath of fresh air because they gave us a lot to care about beyond LeBron. I just can't get amped up about watching the cavaliers for some reason. I had the permanent :Popcorn: for those Heat teams. For this team it's more . That's not even meant as a dig at any players or the cavaliers. It feels like business as usual for David Stern's NBA, for which my general reaction is "been there done that ". I always prefer the notion of team over individual in a team sport. That happens to be what drew me to the ravens in the first place. A foundation built on defense which happened to have a lot of strong personalities that all had to work well together for the defense to be effective. Can't really market one guy on a defense when everyone has to pull their own weight.

I guess its the same reason why the 1986 mets, the 1993 phillies, the 1968 jets and the 1985 bears got attention.


@Remote

 

[Primetime21]

It wasn't Bron's team in Miami is what you're saying.

Wade wasn't part of orchestrating the Big 3 is what you're saying.

"When you're the MVP they're supposed to come to you" - popular pundit that wont be named in response to 2010 free agency

 

[timothy_strickland]

I don't know, this seems like recency bias. Lakers seemed a lot more hated than the Heat were back in the first 3-peat days, especially after the WCF 2002.

I mean we had the whole league chanting "Beat LA".

Early 2000s Lakers were hated for the same reason the early 2000s, late 1990s Yankees got hate or the 90s Bulls. You guys were winning too much. I didnt recall Kobe or Shaq or Rick Fox or Robert Horry or Derek Fisher getting the pure hate that Bron, Wade Bosh, Chalmers, Allen, Battier got.

 

[Remote]

"When you're the MVP they're supposed to come to you" - popular pundit that wont be named in response to 2010 free agency

Explains why Durant eschewed praise and called someone else the real MVP.