MIAMI — The Miami Heat went into Friday night having lost this season to three of the four worst teams in the NBA, teams so bad that they practically already have locked up the top seeds for the draft lottery.
Friday night they faced the possibility of the grand sham, against the league-worst Houston Rockets.
For now, the Heat’s infamy will be limited to those losses to the Detroit Pistons, San Antonio Spurs and Charlotte Hornets, escaping this one with a dramatic 97-95 victory over the Rockets at Miami-Dade Arena.