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Westgate pegs the Heat as having a 20,000-to-1 chance of winning it all next season.

Now that the NBA Draft is in the rear-view mirror, objects seen through the Miami Heat’s windshield are coming into much better focus. Ready or not, the 2019-20 season will have a common theme — out with the old and in with the new. After a decade-and-a-half of…

You know about the “drippy” Miami Vice-like suit he wore to the draft, but you’re about to know a whole lot more about the Heat’s newest future core piece to a championship team.

The Miami Heat headed into Thursday night’s NBA Draft holding the 13th overall selection, a newly acquired second-round pick (44th overall pick) they acquired in a Wednesday trade from the Atlanta Hawks, and an obvious need for a young, athletic player. With Dwyane Wade retired, bloated contracts galore, and little to no salary-cap room, the Heat needed an exciting player who could contribute right away.

Miami sports fans are a proud, eclectic, cocky bunch. You know them you see ’em. You could take fans from each team, dress them in plain white shirts, line them up, and nine out of ten times quickly point out the ones who root for the South Florida squads. Local teams’ fans emit a unique, shall we say, eau de Miami.

Nearing the midway point of the season, it’s quite apparent that the Miami Marlins could make history, and not the kind you put on a commemorative baseball and hand out to fans to remember. The Marlins’ attendance is atrocious. It is unspeakably bad, even for a franchise that’s become a…

There are two types of sports fans: those who back local teams, and everyone else. Very few people fall into a gray area. Chalk it up to the not-us crowd hating us because they ain’t us or to Miamians’ sense of us-against-the-world mentality drilled into us because of all the UM Canes hate over the years, Marlins jokes, and, more recently, Heat-fan slander, but that’s how it feels — them and us.

Miami New Times‘ annual Best of Miami issue is live online today. Here are our picks for this year’s best athletes and sports personalities in Miami.

The Heat should sign 42-year-old Vince Carter, who has already announced that next season will be his own personal version of the #OneLastDance retirement tour Dwyane Wade had last season.

The Miami Dolphins and Reshad Jones seem to have made up, if only for the kids. And by “kids” we mean “trade leverage,” because reports say the Dolphins and Jones have a mutual desire to part ways if at all possible before the season begins.

The Miami sports scene is stuck. Bloated contracts have the Heat waiting for cap space. The Dolphins are starting from scratch again, and the Marlins are in the process of a badly needed rebuild. None of these teams are contenders. All plan to be soon. (And hell, the Marlins nailed…

For now, it seems a majority of knowledgable and invested Marlins fans like where the team is headed.

The Miami Dolphins have the brightest future in Miami sports. Marinate on that for a moment. There is positivity surrounding the Dolphins — perhaps with more supporting evidence than in any recent year — that this current regime, the crop of players, and foundation the franchise has set up for…

Part of the attraction of sports is fans love to argue. Miami debates get extraspicy because of a definite us-against-everyone-else vibe. That is likely part of the reason Miami Heat fans have the most engaged online presence in the NBA. Miamians will bicker and scold their teams, but if other…

You wouldn’t know it by their record, but the Miami Marlins have lots of pitching. The team’s farm system — and for that matter, the guys already toeing the hill in the major leagues this season — signal a bright future. Caleb Smith, Sandy Alcantara, Pablo Lopez, Jose Urena, Trevor Richards,…

Not too long ago, this was peak-activity time for basketball in Miami. The Heat made the NBA Finals four straight seasons between 2011 and 2014, meaning things reached maximum playoff-white hotness on Biscayne Boulevard right about now. These days, things have died down a tad. Dwyane Wade has retired and the…

In sports, there are constant forks in the road. Select a quarterback or a defensive end in the draft. Trade for a big name or bring along the young guy. Order nachos or just pour beer all over yourself. Every team and fan faces a litany of decisions each season…

The Miami Dolphins announced on Friday that they’ll beat the New England Patriots on September 15, which happens to be Dan Marino’s birthday. They’ll do so in style, wearing the universally praised throwback uniforms, this year in white. If you remember, the team wore the aqua version last season when…

The Miami Marlins were expected to be bad. With their best talent residing in minor-league towns like Jacksonville and Jupiter, it was predictable. Most teams rebuilding are bad, but the Miami Marlins are historically bad. So spectacularly bad…

Here are a few promising signs that these Miami Dolphins aren’t the same old Miami Dolphins.

Sure-fire number-one pick Zion Williamson looks like Hulk and a Transformer’s basketball baby.