Miami Heat Milestones

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How to play the Miami Heat history timeline

The Heat deck is made of franchise milestones, each with a brief description, and you order them by year. The opening card is set out for you, year and all. Read each new card and choose a gap for it. Right choices reveal the year; wrong ones still send the card to its true position, at the cost of one of your three lives.

A young franchise with a lot of Finals trips, the Heat give you plenty of championship and conference-title cards that are tough to separate. The descriptions name opponents and key players, and those details are the best way to tell one deep run from another. Big signings and trades are central to this team's story too, and some of them landed very close together, so take your time with the roster moves.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

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Here are 25 of the 25 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

Awarded an NBA expansion franchise South Florida was granted a team led by Billy Cunningham and Lewis Schaffel.
Played the first Heat season Miami opened at the Miami Arena and lost its first 17 games as an expansion club.
Drafted Glen Rice The Heat took the Michigan champion sharpshooter fourth overall.
Made the first playoff appearance Miami reached the postseason for the first time and was swept by the Bulls.
Pat Riley took over and traded for Alonzo Mourning Riley left the Knicks for full control of Heat operations and dealt for the Charlotte center that fall.
Traded for Tim Hardaway Miami acquired the crossover-dribbling point guard from Golden State to pair with Mourning.
Won a franchise-record 61 games Riley's defensive juggernaut earned the top seed in the East.
Opened American Airlines Arena The Heat moved into a new waterfront home on Biscayne Bay.
Alonzo Mourning won Defensive Player of the Year Zo anchored the Heat as the league's top defender for a second straight season.
Drafted Dwyane Wade Miami selected the Marquette guard fifth overall.
Traded for Shaquille O'Neal Miami landed the dominant center from the Lakers in a blockbuster.
Wade and Shaq won 59 games The new duo posted the best regular-season record in franchise history to that point.
Won the first NBA championship Dwyane Wade's Finals MVP performance rallied Miami from a 0-2 deficit to beat Dallas.
The Big Three signed in Miami LeBron James and Chris Bosh joined Dwyane Wade in a franchise-altering free-agent coup.
Lost the Finals to Dallas The newly formed Big Three fell to the Mavericks in their first title run together.
Won the championship over Oklahoma City LeBron James captured his first ring as the Heat beat the young Thunder.
Won back-to-back titles over the Spurs Ray Allen's corner three forced Game 7, and Miami repeated as champions.
LeBron James returned to Cleveland The four-time MVP left Miami in free agency to go back home.
Retired Shaquille O'Neal's No. 32 The Heat raised the Diesel's jersey to the rafters.
Won 30 of the final 41 games A no-name roster surged late but narrowly missed the playoffs in a historic run.
Dwyane Wade returned for One Last Dance Miami brought its franchise icon back via trade for a farewell final season.
Signed Jimmy Butler Miami acquired the tough-minded wing in a sign-and-trade to lead a new era.
Reached the Finals from the bubble Butler's Heat stormed through the Orlando bubble before losing to the Lakers.
Won the East as the top seed Miami claimed the No. 1 seed and reached the Conference Finals.
Reached the Finals as an eighth seed Miami became just the second No. 8 seed to reach the NBA Finals, falling to Denver.