The fact that they have consistently managed to overachieve with less, in all facets, is the thing that separates them. Follow along here.
In the era post-LeBron, the Miami Heat were without Chris Bosh, Dwyane Wade left for a period, and competed with a team that was led by Goran Dragic, an official Miami Heat Lifer none the less, as their best player.
There are numerous, but do you need more? Take a few years ago, the NBA Bubble Year, where that Jimmy Butler-led Miami Heat team went from a middle seed in the Eastern Conference to NBA Finals contenders against a bigger and more talented Los Angeles Lakers team.
Yes, they lost, but not before the Miami Heat and Jimmy Butler showed the entire world that they weren’t a joke. You know, that’s the Finals that saw Jimmy Butler go toe to toe with The Chosen One, literally.
Lastly, if you look at the things that don’t tend to matter to everyone else, NBA Summer League or the Preseason, for example, the Miami Heat show up then too.