Miami Heat Tickets

The Miami Heat are the toast of Miami. Despite a down year in 2007-2008, the past successes of the Heat, and the presence of one of the NBA's best players, Dwayne Wade, make Miami Heat Tickets are hard to get - American Airlines Arena is always filled to capacity through the regular season and beyond. Just Great Tickets is your avenue to Miami Heat Regular Season Tickets, Miami Heat Playoff Tickets and Miami Heat NBA Finals Tickets.

The Heat are led by superstar Dwayne Wade, Shawn Marion and a solid cast of supporting players. The Heat will be back at the top of the Eastern Conference in no time, as President and Head Coach Pat Riley is not one for losing. Miami Heat Tickets - to see Coach Pat Riley's revamped squad compete for the Eastern Conference crown against the mighty Boston Celtics and Detroit Pistons -- will be hard to get. Just Great Tickets is the number one source for your Houston Rockets Tickets.

When the NBA expanded in the late 1980's -- it had South Florida on it's radar. The Miami Heat debuted for the 1988-89 season. Among the players on the inaugural roster were first round picks Rony Seikaly and Kevin Edwards, fellow rookies Grant Long and Sylvester Gray as well as NBA vets Rory Sparrow, Jon Sundvold, Pat Cummings, Scott Hastings, Dwayne "Pearl" Washington and Billy Thompson. The team started out the season by losing its first 17 games, an NBA record. But the fans in Miami still wanted Heat Tickets and came out to support the team. In the early 1990s, the Heat drafted Steve Smith and immediately made their first playoff appearance despite having a losing record.

The mid-1990s provided some exciting times for Miami Heat fans, and Heat Tickets were hard to come by. In the 1995 off season, the Heat hired Pat Riley from the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers and the 1990s New York Knicks to be the team's new president and head coach after he resigned immediately following the 1994-1995 season. Riley dropped a bombshell the night before the season began, trading for All-Star center Alonzo Mourning. In a flurry of midseason deals, Riley acquired several players including Tim Hardaway. The Heat finished with a winning record with Mourning among the league leaders in scoring and rebounding, but lost in the playoffs in a 3-game sweep against the 72-10 Chicago Bulls.

The following season, the Heat made a 19-game improvement in the standings, winning their first-ever Atlantic Division title with a 61-21 record. Heat Tickets were all the rage on South Beach. Playing a key role were new additions Dan Majerle and Jamal Mashburn. They defeated the rival Knicks in the playoffs in seven games, rallying from a 3-1 series deficit. However, in the Eastern Conference Finals, the Heat were ousted from the in five games by the Bulls for the second consecutive year. This would be their last strong team until the Shaquille O'Neal Dwayne Wade era.

Some bad luck and some bad teams haunted Miami Heat fans until the arrival of one Dwayne Wade in the 2003 draft. Wade had an immediate impact breaking several rookie records while other Heat players, such as Lamar Odom, revived their careers. Heat Tickets were hot again as the Heat pushed to the playoffs, where Wade really established himself as a future superstar. Wade led the Heat in toppling the New Orleans Hornets(which had relocated from Charlotte at the end of the 2001-2002 season), the same team that swept the Heat into rebuilding mode just three seasons prior. Miami lost to the Indiana Pacers 4-2 in the conference semifinals. The Pacers had finished with the best record in the league and saw the Heat give Indiana a tougher series than expected.

Then in the off season, the Heat went after Shaq-Daddy. The Heat acquired superstar center Shaquille O'Neal on July 14, 2004 in a historic trade with the Los Angeles Lakers in which Miami shipped Lamar Odom, Caron Butler and Brian Grant out west. Dwyane Wade and O'Neal worked well as a pair and each solidified their position as NBA elites with both averaging over 20 points per game. The Heat were an amazing draw, all of Miami clamored for Heat Tickets.

Strong teams followed year in and year out. And in 2006, the Heat made a miraculous run through the NBA playoffs and eventually defeated Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks in an exciting six game series, highlighted by Dwayne Wade, who would be named NBA Finals MVP, establishing himself as one the league's preeminent stars.

The Heat are hoping for a rebirth that will bring the Larry O'Brien Trophy back to Miami. Miami Heat Tickets are always hard to come by, but Just Great Tickets has all the action, from opening night to the NBA Finals. Turn to us for those hard to get Miami Heat Tickets.