{"id":115167,"date":"2022-09-13T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/5-at-35-ranking-the-miami-heat-s-five-greatest-off-court-moments"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T13:45:00","slug":"5-at-35-ranking-the-miami-heat-s-five-greatest-off-court-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/5-at-35-ranking-the-miami-heat-s-five-greatest-off-court-moments","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;5 at 35&#8242;: Ranking the Miami Heat&#8217;s five greatest off-court moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late NBA Commissioner David Stern (right) opened the door for the Miami Heat to enter the NBA. Micky Arison (right) later hired Pat Riley to take the franchise to the next level. Mike Stocker\/South Florida Sun-Sentinel\/TNS With 2022-23 marking the Miami Heat&#8217;s 35th season, the Sun Sentinel is unveiling a series of &#8220;5 at 35&#8243; reflections from staff writer Ira Winderman, who has covered the entirety of the franchise&#8217;s 3 1\/2 decades. After opening the series with a look at the five greatest games in the team&#8217;s history , today we look at the franchise&#8217;s five greatest moments, taking the focus off the court. 1. April 22, 1987: For more than two decades, there were the Miami Dolphins and nothing else when it came to top-tier professional sports in South Florida. Then, 11 months after NBA Hall of Famer Billy Cunningham and theatrical producer Zev Bufman announced intentions to try to bring an NBA team to the market, Commissioner David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 2022-23 marking the Miami Heat&#8217;s 35th season, the Sun Sentinel is unveiling a series of &#8220;5 at 35&#8243; reflections from staff writer Ira Winderman, who has covered the entirety<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[256,58],"class_list":["post-115167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}