The Miami Heat are free to bring relatively big dreams into the 2025-26 NBA season (although their wildest dreams exist farther beyond it). Their roster is improved—if more subtly than splashily—and the Eastern Conference is not. If you want the book on why Miami can feel confident about the upcoming campaign, that's the CliffsNotes snapshot.
And yet, the Heat could be in danger of dashing their own dreams. Because if the Heat still don't have a floor general, then their grandest ambitions will never get off the ground.