Miami Heat Starts Season Intensely

It is officially the start of the NBA 2010-2011 season as training camps all over the nation began. And the most controversial team this off season, the Miami Heat, starts their training camp in a real training ground, a military training camp. Amidst the fanfare and media frenzy that surrounds the team, they decided to travel 650 miles away from home to practice.

It was Day 1 for Lebron James as an official Miami Heat player and he did look really comfortable with his new found team in Florida. James earned the ire of Ohio natives especially those of his former team in Cleveland when he announced that he would be leaving for Miami during the one hour ESPN special. He looked really uncomfortable then but he was looking really fine now as he orchestrated plays, vocally instructing his team mates and even getting into an argument over fellow teammate Dwayne Wade over a scoring dispute just before the practice ended. And this is just day one practice. Intense indeed.

“That’s just me,” Lebron said in an interview later on.

The 2 time reigning NBA MVP opened the camp in a way that he would on a normal game day with his A-game in tow. He wowed the crowd of military personnel gathered to watch in Hurlburt Field. He gave a fist in the air after beating a double team and setting up team mate Joel Anthony for a wonderful dunk. He later then gave a dunk of his own. There was even a little Wade vs. Lebron action going on as what people would believe would later be a clash of egos in the lockers.

Everyone either loves or hates the heat. Soon they will be under intense scrutiny as they managed to pull off a free agent coup that consisted of marquee players starting with Lebron James from Cleveland and Chris Bosh from Toronto, resigning forward Udonis Haslem and getting three point specialists Mike Miller.

There is an obvious fight over starting spots at the moment and you can feel it in the air. People are trying to prove themselves and are aiming for redemption like Veteran Juwan Howard and returning shooting Guard Eddie House.  Bodies are flying everywhere. Sweat is everywhere and no one can see that intensity than the players themselves

“It is, and it was very intense from start to finish,” Heat forward Udonis Haslem said. “The intensity was high. No one was slacking. We got our work done. Everything was good.”

Present to observe the training Camp was Pat Riley himself who sat midcourt observing everything from the players to the plays.

The season on opener would feature the newly revamped Miami Heat roster as they take on the defending Eastern Conference Champions, The Boston Celtics.

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