Sports Illustrated Leaves Miami Heat Off NBA Preview Covers

The Miami Heat, led by some dude named LeBron James, have won the past two NBA championships. Yet Sports Illustrated — when designing its NBA season preview covers — decided that didn’t mean too much, and excluded the team.

Instead of acknowledging the back-to-back champs, readers will see SI covers featuring either the Brooklyn Nets (which we will of course burn), Dwight Howard, Derrick Rose or Steph Curry.

We can see the reasons for a cover featuring Howard and Rose.

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