The Miami Heat is an American professional basketball club based in Florida. The club was playing as a member of the Southeast Division in the League's Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association. The Heat plays their home games at American Airlines Arena and has won three NBA championships. During the 1988–89 NBA season the franchise started playing as an expansion team. The Heat would gain success in the 1990s after a period of mediocrity with the appointment of iconic head coach Pat Riley to Team President spot. Riley would create the high-profile trades of Alonzo Mourning in 1995, and the high-profile trades of Tim Hardaway in 1996, which soon propelled the franchise into playoff contention. In the end, Mourning and Hardaway will lead the Heat to four divisional wins, respectively, prior to their 2001 and 2002 exits. The squad struggled as a result, and a reconstruction started on schedule for the 2002–03 season. Joined by Dwyane Wade and after a trade with former NBA Most Valuable Player Shaquille O'Neal, Miami advanced to the 2006 NBA Finals where they clinched their first title along with Riley as the head coach. Two years on, following O'Neal's retirement, the franchise began another period of decline for the remainder of the 2000's. That meant the departure of Riley as head coach, going back to his position as team manager, and being replaced by Erik Spoelstra. In 2010 the Heat joined Wade to create the "Big Three" alongside future league MVP LeBron James and perennial NBA All-Star Chris Bosh, after creating significant cap space. Together during their four-year tenure, and under the names of Spoelstra, Johnson, Wade, and Bosh, they will lead the Heat to the NBA Finals every season, winning two back-to-back titles in both 2012 and 2013. The three will all leave by 2016 and the team started another period of rebuilding. Wade was eventually reacquired in 2018, though with the franchise he resigned. The Heat hold the record of 27 consecutive games for the NBA's third-longest winning streak set during the 2012–13 season. Four Hall of Famers have played for Miami while James won the NBA MVP Award while playing for the franchise. The first Miami Heat jerseys, unveiled during the season 1988–89, consist of plain striping, exclusive only on the right side of the shirt and trousers. Home uniforms were white with lettering in red, black and orange trim, while away uniforms were black with red, green, and orange trim; green numbers with red, black, and orange trim, using the same script as the new Los Angeles Lakers jerseys. The original 'flaming ball' logo appears on the left leg shorts and on the right side is the word 'Miami.' The new Heat uniforms have been in use since the 1999–2000 season. While similar, these uniforms have visible differences such as stripping on both sides, changing from orange to yellow piping, new lettering and block numbering, and a modified symbol for 'flaming ball' on the right hip. The regular numbers black away now fit the colours in the lettering. The rivalry between the New York Knicks and the expansion of the Miami Heat resulted from their four consecutive playoff series from 1997 through 2000. Every series went out to seven instalments. Pat Riley, both teams 'head coach, was central figure in the game. Jeff Van Gundy took over Riley's time as the Knicks 'head coach, while his older brother Stan Van Gundy was also an assistant coach with the Heat. Patrick Ewing and Alonzo Grieving, friends of their Georgetown career from Basketball time. One of the Knicks, Larry Johnson, holding bad blood with Grieving as far back as their days at the Charlotte Hornets. The Bulls broke the Heat's record-setting 27-game winning streak on March 27, 2013, with a 101–97 victory at the Chicago United Centre. Despite playing without Derrick Rose, Joakim Noah, Richard "Rip" Hamilton and Marco Belinelli, the Bulls managed to snap the second longest win streak in nba history.
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1964 Olympics
The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games, is a multi-sport winter event held from January 29th to February 9th, 1964 in Innsbruck, Austria. The Games featured 1091 athletes from 36 countries and carried the Olympic Torch to Joseph Rieder, a former alpine skier who had competed in the 1956 Winter Olympics. The Games were affected during training by the deaths of Australian alpine skier Ross Milne and British lugeracer Kazimierz Kay-Skrzypeski, and three years afterwards by the deaths of the entire U.S. hockey team and family members. Just Innsbruck applied for an invitation against Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and Lahti, Finland to host the 1964 Winter Olympics. This is the same tally of votes this took place on May 26, 1959, at the 55th IOC Session in Munich, West Germany: the games were opened by a concert conducted by the Vienna Philharmonic under Karl Böhm's baton. The first concert included 7th Symphony by Beethoven, and 40th Symphony by Mozart. Historically the warm Innsbruck had been influenced by a lack of snow. The Austrian army removed 20,000 ice cubes from the top of a mountain and sent them to tracks of bobsleigh and luge. They provided the alpine ski courses with 40,000 cubic metres of snow too. The Soldiers rushed down the slopes by hand and foot. All the women's speed skating events are headed by Lidia Skoblikova. Italian bobsleigh pilot Eugenio Monti has enriched himself by helping Britain's Tony Nash and Robin Dixon win the gold medals and sending them a cracked axle bolt to repair it. The Italians took bronze, but Monti was first elected recipient of the Pierre de Coubertin sportsmanship award. Austrian Egon Zimmermann took the gold medal in the alpine downhill skiing championship for men. Knut Johannesen from Norway hit fastest time at the Olympics in the men's 5,000 m speed skating event. Klavdiya Boyarskikh of the U.S.S.R. won three gold medals in cross-country skiing, and Finnish Eero Mäntyranta won two on the men's side and received the nickname "Mr. Seefeld" after his success in the position. The French sisters Christine and Marielle Goitschel finished first and second in slalom and giant slalom in alpine skiing, respectively. Ski jumping took on a second event, and the Olympic debut in the luge competition. The Games have been previously noteworthy as East and West Germany formed a combined squad the last time. The Closing Ceremonies first took place in a venue other than the opening ceremonies. In Innsbruck 36 Rivals had been allocated to play. China, Mongolia and North Korea took part in the Winter Games for the very first time. Players from West Germany and East Germany played together as the United Team from 1956 to 1964.Australian alpine skier Ross Milne and British luge slider KazimierzKay-Skrzypeski died while practising and exercising just before the Olympics. The planning commission previously said Ross fell into a tree during a hearing. The IOC also said inexperience may have been a factor in Ross's death. Boss John Wagner suggested that overcrowding played a role in beating a multitude of competitors, saying that Milne had been attempting to slow down "on a position you couldn't jump or run" His uncle Malcolm Milne competed at the 1968 and 1972 Winter Olympics. On the road to the Prague World Championships on 15 February 1961, when Sabena Flight 548 crashed in Brussels, Belgium, the entire United States Figure Skating team and other club members, coaches, and officials were killed. The event prompted the cancellation of the World Championships of1961 which demanded the creation of a new American skating programme. Gold won on 34 athletic competitions in six different disciplines.
By MB4 years ago in Unbalanced
Avalanche Game 82 Recap: We Are Ready!
When the 2023-24 NHL season began, one thing I wanted to do was write a game-by-game recap of the Colorado Avalanche's campaign. I was inspired by the "fan reaction" vids I've seen on YouTube, mainly Steve Dangle's "LFR" (standing for Leafs Fan Reaction) vids, which I had been watching for about five years, and really enjoyed during the pandemic-affected seasons. I wanted to do the same, and decided to use Vocal to spread my Avalanche fandom. I have really enjoyed writing these recaps, and I loved that I could bring a humorous spin to these stories. I do my best to be objective, but there are times where I have to put the Avalanche glasses on.
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Golden Knights Look to Repeat, but Face a Bumpy Road
Well...they're in. The Vegas Golden Knights are in the playoffs, but it wasn't an easy road. Despite an 11-0-1 start to the season, the Knights fell off the rest of the way, and it looked like that the defending champs wouldn't be back in the playoffs. However, Vegas did manage to get back in the thick of things and move back above the playoff line, and they would enter this day with a chance to stay up there for good. They got some help from the Carolina Hurricanes, who won 5-2 over the St. Louis Blues, meaning that Vegas could get in with a win of any kind. Boy, did they get it: a 7-2 win over the decaying Minnesota Wild.
By Clyde E. Dawkins6 days ago in Unbalanced
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