The Miami Heat are in a weird spot. They went 46–36 last season, which was actually a better record than they had the year before when they went to the NBA Finals. They finished with the eighth-best record in the Eastern Conference, but were actually only four games out of the No. 2 seed.
So depending on how you look at it, the Heat are both far behind their rival the Boston Celtics, who just won the NBA championship, and kind of right there if they've got all their guys healthy. They have after all, gone to the conference finals three times in the last five seasons.
