The 2020-21 NBA season is almost upon us, but Hot Take SZN is here, and at the end of another eventful offseason we will see how close to the sun we can fly and still stand the swelter of these viewpoints.
The Miami Heat were an average regular-season playoff team by every measure before catching fire in the clutch for two playoff rounds and fizzling out in their six-game NBA Finals loss to the Los Angeles Lakers.
There are plenty of arguments to be made about whether Miami could be a better regular-season team this season, but to recreate the playoff magic against the Milwaukee Bucks and Boston Celtics would be to defy the odds again.