“I think people are trying to pick on Miami right now instead of opening their eyes to just how great they are.”
-Jeff Van Gundy
It has become sort of fashionable to question how good the Heat will be this year. Of the twenty five experts on ESPN.com twelve picked the Heat to win the championship, twelve picked the Lakers, and one picked the Celtics. On SI.com only out of the six experts and one out the six of the anonymous scouts picked the Heat to win it all. It gets worse for the Heat on NBA.com where only two out of eleven experts pick them and ten out of thirty general managers in the annual poll picked them (nineteen picked the Lakers).
So out of 78 respected opinions, 24 or 31% believe the Heat will win the NBA championship. In my opinion that is too low and not only do I predict the Heat to win the title, I think they have a 50/50 chance of getting 73 wins. Here are the reasons why the Heat can break the ’96 Bulls’ record:
