About Heat vs Bulls
The Miami Heat joined the NBA as an expansion franchise in 1988, and it did not take long for a rivalry to develop between themselves and the Chicago Bulls. During the Bulls’ dominant period during the 1990s, they knocked the Heat out of the NBA Playoffs on 3 occasions in 1992, 1996, and 1997. The Heat would gain a modicum of revenge in 2006 on their way to winning their first NBA championship.
Their rivalry reignited in the early 2010s with the Bulls centred around Derrick Rose and the Heat around LeBron James and Dwyane Wade – both of whom turned down moves to Chicago – as well as Chris Bosh. In 2013, the Bulls brought and end to the Heat’s 27-game winning streak, which was the 2nd-longest in basketball history, despite missing many of their key players. The Heat would avenge that loss in the Playoffs in a hot-tempered 2nd-round clash that saw Miami run out 115-78 winners – the largest margin of victory in franchise playoff history and the Bulls’ worst playoff defeat in franchise history – in Game 2, before going on to win the championship.
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