After a "quiet" offseason, the Miami Heat are going to enter the 2025-26 campaign with mostly the same roster that got swept by Cleveland to end the 2024-25 season. On paper, the ceiling for the Heat isn't very high, and the odds of winning a title are next to none.
But success in 2025-26 for Miami would be having its young group of talent take a step forward and be a squad that wins because of the sum of its parts.
And given the state of the Eastern Conference, opportunity awaits Miami.
Miami can make noise in 2025-26
The Christmas Day schedule for the NBA was revealing in the sense that only New York and Cleveland are going to get featured from the Eastern Conference.