Miami Heat: How Charlotte Game Illustrates Top Management Rating

The Miami Heat compete. That’s year in and year out.

They don’t take breaks. Pat Riley and the Miami Heat don’t rebuild as other franchises do, they retool.

It’s been that way for a long time and will continue to be that way for a while. After the conclusion of the Big 3 Era, which speaks for itself and goes without saying, they continued to fight hard and though they haven’t managed to build a title contender since, name a team that’s been in better shape post-Superstar loss than they have been?

We’ll wait. You’ll be hard-pressed to find anyone that has managed to transition better than they did from LeBron James and that era.

With that and with something that has caused quite the little firestorm in the last several days, a ranking of the NBA’s best management teams by ESPN, it really makes you wonder. First though, here’s the evidence in question (subscription required).

When you look at this list, it’s really no shocker that the Miami Heat manage to find themselves in the top slot. Here’s what really does it.