Recently, a prominent podcast known as “The Deep 3” had an episode video giving their all-time Mt. Rushmore for every NBA franchise, and they didn’t even Bron on there for the Heat at all.

And I’ve also recently seen comments on TikTok even say Jimmy Buttler > him as a Heat…

Idc what beef Bron could’ve had or still could have with that one man, nor do I care who that one man may be. Not only should NONE of that overtake the fact that he’s led the franchise to most of their only titles in its history, but it should not take away any of the love and appreciation y’all actual Heat fans still seemed to have had for him. I mean, this didn’t look like hate at all to me from the clip when he gets introduced during his first return to Miami…

With that said, let’s review what Bron contributed within just four years in Miami:
• Once again, he led the team to 2/3 of the titles in franchise history — winning them back-to-back. Also has the FMVP’s to prove himself as the best player for those titles to boot.
• Was the best player of the team that made it to the finals all four times — even in 2011 he was overall the best player in the earlier playoffs series before chocking in that year’s finals.
• Won back-to-back MVP’s while on the Heat — and yes I’m counting those cuz being considered “Most Valuable Player” in the league would make you also considered exactly that for your own team by extension.
• In the 2012-2013 season, led the team to not only the most wins in the entire league that season (66 wins) but also the most in franchise history to this day! Fun fact, this is also the same season most ppl consider Bron to be at his peak and most complete…

The only other all-time Heat who’s contributed anywhere NEAR as much as that is Dwyane Wade, and even with him it’s a lot closer than many ppl have been making it out to be.

At the absolute worst, LeBron James should be considered the 2nd greatest Heat OAT. Anything lower is complete disrespect to how much he’s done for the franchise — even with just his four years there!

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  2. Maybe. I mean obviously LeBron is a Mount Rushmore Heat player. But personally I also think there’s this dynamic at play where it feels like we did just as much for LeBron as he did for us.

    2 rings in 4 years here, 2 rings in his other 18 seasons. Gave him his greatest coach and GM and he threw it away to go drag a terrible Cavs franchise to the Finals where he had to do a historic carry job to win a title. He turned away from the savvy guys who surrounded him with great vets like Battier, UD, Ray Allen, Mike Miller, Birdman, etc. and ended up surrounded by JR Smith, Dellavedova and Mozgov.

    Lakers have been the same story. Flipping picks for whatever players LeBron wanted, coaching carousels, generally not meeting expectations.

    So there’s also this layer where it sort of feels like he ran from the grind and didn’t truly care about winning. He could’ve been so much more if he stayed, but he wanted to be the boss, didn’t want to be under Pat Riley’s thumb, and so we’ve moved on while he spent the last decade with mediocre franchises. Lakers and Cavs are forever indebted, Heat view it as a fair exchange, we turned him from choker to champ and don’t owe him anything.

  4. 1st of all their takes regarding Miami are always gonna be ass let’s start there. Like it’s a Lakers, Hawks, and Knicks fan all talking lmaoooo

    2nd of all their argument was built around how Pat Riley was mad with Lebron, how some heat fans don’t like Lebron for leaving, how Lebron cost the heat and Wade 2011, and how the Heat culture is all about staying through the grind and not leaving like Lebron did. Which I mean isn’t the most out there of takes like shit I know some of the older folks like my dad or some teachers I had in school at the time don’t like Lebron for leaving or disrespecting Pat Riley

    Now saying all that I don’t give a damn about those arguments like he was pivotal to us winning 2 of our 3 total franchise championships lol

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