While it was their later teams who won championships, the 2010-11 Miami Heat was the squad who changed basketball forever. We take you back to The Decision and its effects on both the NBA and LeBron James nearly a decade later. The league’s first modern day traveling rock show had it all: a polarizing team not ready for the backlash they received, the near firing of their head coach and an early-season meltdown of one of their stars. But the wins would come. The Heat roared into the Finals before falling victim to a team who showed them what their missing ingredient was, but the biggest of shocks in the series against the Dallas Mavericks came from the on-court disappearance of the man who made all of the craziness happen: LeBron James.

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