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3. Miami Heat

The Miami Heat are the best team in the Eastern Conference. When this team is healthy, they’ve proved that over the course of the regular season, they can beat anyone, anywhere. And they are sitting in first place to back that claim up.

Every team has been hurt by injury this season and the Heat has found a way to navigate above it. Their top three have only played a handful of games together, but when this team is complete, it’s easy to see why they have the potential to be dangerous.

The big question for this team heading into the playoffs is whether or not they’ll have the durability to make a deep run when it matters most – the biggest question that most had about this team during the offseason.