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Man, have any of you seen the special on Sunshine? It goes from the 2003-04 season(one of my favorites all time) all the way to the championship season. Amazing the different feelings it takes you through..

The unexpected rise of the 2003-04 Heat, to the Shaq deal, to Zo coming home. Then Wade getting hurt in game 6 ECF's(I felt that was OUR YEAR), to again another unexpected run(a lot of "experts even picked NJ to beat us) to our first championship!!!! Man...it's hard right now being a fan, but those are some fond memories!

On another note, has a team, so fast fallen from grace? I mean 2 years ago right now we were gearing up for our championship run, to now setting a record for the worst record ever!?!?!

May lottery GODS be kind and deliver us the top pick! We were robbed in 89...let it not happen again!

That special goes through all 18-19 years of the franchise, not just from 2003-2004.

What do you mean "robbed in '89"?

I see...I guess I tuned in late.

Robbed meaning we had the worst record in the 88-89 season yet ended up with the 4th pick. Which obviously wasnt too bad since Pervis Ellison and Danny Ferry went 1-2, then Sean Elliot and Glen Rice went to us. However this year we got two sure shot players in Beasly and Rose, if we do not get one of them after the season we had I will be very pissed!

The lottery is stupid, it should maybe be between the bottom 3 teams or something that's it. Although it's a very small chance the fact that a team like GS could some how end up with Beasly or Rose is just BS. Let's be real, we will pry not get the 1st pick. A 25% chance is not much and really how many teams with the worst record have actually walked away with the top pick? The Cavs in 2003 with LaBron? Who else?

The fact a team like Orlando got Shaq number 1 then the next year goes 41-41 and still gets the first pick is a joke..

Time for some lottery luck for us, we have never improved our position in the draft, just gotten worse...

In 1987, the Clippers finished with a league-worst 12-70 record, but didn't strike it lucky in the lottery and under the new rules, wound up with the fourth pick. The Spurs, who had the fourth-worst record at 28-54 struck gold with Navy center David Robinson at No. 1. Only one of the three worst teams that year wound up with one of the top three picks -- New Jersey, which picked Ohio State guard Dennis Hopson.


Since the NBA switched to a weighted lottery system in 1994, only two NBA teams with the best chance of landing the top pick have gotten it -- the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2003 (LeBron James) and the Orlando Magic (Dwight Howard) the following year.



To me, that is BS. And I am not just saying that because we had a bad year and should get the 1st pick. I understand the whole tanking thing, but come on. You're telling me in 14 years only 2x a team with the worst record has come out with the top pick? And that is fair how? I mean I was looking at the 97 lottery and the Spurs based on record should have had the 4th pick and the Grizzles the 1st. Look how that has shaped 2 franchises...unreal. The looking back a decade prior...the Same thing..wow! I mean has a franchise benifted from lottery luck anymore then the Spurs?! LOL...you got from Reggie Williams and Antonio Daniels to David Robinson and Tim Duncan...it is almost laughable it's so unreal..


Same thing last summer, you have Portland with 5.3 chance and they get the top pick? I know they should have it the year prior based on record, that's my point, no consitency at all..

Has anyone recorded this? I live in Europe so i can't watch Sunshine Sports.

Thrillseeker_ wrote:Has anyone recorded this? I live in Europe so i can't watch Sunshine Sports.

I watched it on the Heat.com website.

But yeah, it's a great special and really made me sad about where we are right now.