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Miami Heat in 1988, Miami owned the NBA team. Team officials wanted the name to appeal to fans in southern Florida, so they decided to call up the team. Enthusiastic fans provided more than 5,000 names, including shark, palm tree, beach, heat, Barracuda, flamingo, black skin, cyclone, and Floridian. “We chose the name heat because when you think of Miami, you think of heat first,”the team’s boss, Michael Bufman, said"
