Why are the Miami Heat fans all wearing white for tonight's game?
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Ummm...Detroit is not going to win the series. \n\nThey wear white because the team has asked them to. There is a push for Miami to be the "White Hot Heat" this year so it is a way for the fans to get involved in supporting their team. Kind of cool, I think....
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Heres a summary\n\n\nDALLAS -- They had the start they wanted. They had the tempo they wanted. They even had an all-night look at the Dirk Nowitzki they dreamed of. \nThe Miami Heat had lots of what they wished for Thursday night in Game 1 of the NBA Finals. \n \n\nWhich is why they had to have serious regrets at night's end. \n\n"They looked awesome early on," Nowitzki said. "I thought they had everything going." \n\nNot everything, perhaps, but Miami had an undeniably precious opportunity to steal the series opener here, largely because Nowitzki had a serious nightmare. \n\nHe was admittedly nervous on the big stage. He was, in turn, passive. Nowitzki was also roughed up by the better-than-billed Miami defensive tandem of Udonis Haslem and James Posey, whose combined aggressiveness and physicality ushered Nowitzki to a stunning conclusion. \n\nZero points in the fourth quarter. \n\nOf course, with Miami outscoring Nowitzki by only 12 in that quarter, it cannot be recorded as a historic achievement for the Heat. \n\nIt goes down instead as a 90-80 defeat and a considerable missed opportunity, given that Nowitzki missed 10 of 14 shots and finished with just 16 points ... or 34 points shy of the 50 he had in his last game here. \n\n"We had the opportunity that we wanted," Haslem said. "We just didn't do what we were supposed to do." \n\nThe Heat had more than a mere opportunity. \n\nThey had the look of vets who had been here before, even though Shaquille O'Neal and Gary Payton were the only Miami rotation players with NBA Finals experience before this Game 1. \n\nThey had Nowitzki flummoxed and Josh Howard equally discombobulated, too. It was tough to tell, honestly, which of the hosts' two steadiest players looked shakier. ("If you would have told me that Josh and myself would go 7-for-28 [from the field] and we win this game," Nowitzki said, "I wouldn't have believed it.") \n\nThe Heat showed a worldwide audience a lot of the newfound unity and discipline that made them the best in the East, to the point that they even had O'Neal jumping out hard on pick-and-rolls to further discourage Dallas. \n\nThe problem? \n\nMiami's mistakes were fatal. \n\nOnly two Heaters got to the line all evening and one of them -- Shaq -- missed his first eight free throws. (Shaq missed his first 10, really, if you count the two misses waved off for lane violations). \n\nThe Heat also failed to build on an early 11-point lead when Heat coach Pat Riley's gamble to spare O'Neal from a third foul backfired. Riley sat O'Neal for the final two minutes of the second quarter, after Shaq's second foul, and Dallas capitalized with the final seven points of the half . . . helped along by Miami's six straight empty possessions. \n\nThose boosts were all Dallas needed, even with Nowitzki in a stunningly ineffective state given his new playoff standards. That's because their defense stiffened in the fourth, nudging Miami into its own funk from the perimeter. \n\nBut that's also because these Mavs don't fold easy, no matter what's happening with Nowitzki. As proven more than once in the seven-game epic against their longtime tormentors from San Antonio, Avery Johnson's Mavs can win these kinds of grinding playoff games. \n\nWhat kind? \n\n"Ugly and sloppy," Riley said. \n\nNowitzki, strangely, was at the forefront of it all. It was the last thing you expected, frankly, with Dwyane Wade in town to engage him in the definitive duel for unquestioned King of the Playoffs. The role in Nowitzki's struggles played by Haslem and Posey (and their double-team helpers) can't be discounted. Those two invalidated the considerable pregame skepticism about their ability to stay with Nowitzki and pushed right up on him. Nowitzki responded with passivity as opposed to rim-attacking aggression and even his few jumpers that dropped loo
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it isn't done just in nba...almost all the basketball teams in the world do this.\ni think it's because of the law. it says that the home team should wear LIGHT shirt and the away team, DARK. of course dark doesn't mean black; colors like: green, red, blue and so on...except for yellow & others that look light.
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chobo219 don't know, he's a HEAT FAN NOW!  Ain't that right, "lol" bandwagoner!
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The parade is this Friday June 23, 2006. Here's some more info about it:\n\nThe Miami Heat parade will be held this Friday June 23, 2006. Here's some more info about it:\n\nThe parade celebrating the Miami Heat's NBA championship will be held from 2 p.m-5 p.m. on Friday in downtown Miami, city and county officials announced.\n\nHere's the route:\n\nThe parade will start at American Airlines Arena, go south on Biscayne Boulevard to Flagler Street, then west on Flagler for four blocks, south one block to SE First Street and back four blocks to Biscayne Boulevard. It will head north and end at the arena, where a huge celebration will take place.\n\nOfficials urged citizens attending the parade to arrive early -- use public transport if at all possible -- and to bring plenty of water.
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Its so the crazy fans won't stalk them, or call them at 3am on their hotel room phone. They used to wear names until about 5-6 seasons ago. I can't really rem what happened, maybe some football ref got shot or something, but it was prob a union move to protect the refs.Souvenir Programs are too expensive and most fanatics are proved to be of low I.Q. so reading is out of the question.
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Because white people can't play basketball?!?!?! There are a few players who's not white though.
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Its still used.  Its worn on the shoulders of the jerseys.\n\nGood Luck to them against Dallas.
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DRY CLEAN IT DONT WASH IT !!!!!!!!!!!\n\nAND IN OTHER NEWS......\n\nMIAMI HEAT BASKETBALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL...\n\nALL YALL HATERS NEED TO BOW DOWN\n\nEVERYBODY WAS HATIN WHEN THEY WENT DOWN 0-2 BUT I SAID THEY WOULD WIN IN 6 EVEN IN MY OTHER ANSWERS\n\nI WAS RIGHT & YALL LOOKIN REAL STUPID BOUT NOW\n\nALL THE ANALYSTS & COMMENTATORS WERE SAYIN DALLAS' BENCH WAS TOO DEEP BUT ALLLLLLLLLL YALL GOT PROVED WRONG\n\nMIAMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII HEAT BASKETBALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL\n\nFYI MY TRASH TALKING WAS WAYYYYYYYYYYY B4 THEY WON..I KNEW THEY WERE GON WIN...CHECK MY OTHER ANSWERS
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Miami is my team. I know we'll surely defeat the Bulls, but I am worried about our current form. Yesterday's game appears to be the best so far. I thought we would breeze past the bulls. Guess age is a factor. I hope to see more improvements in other games. Hopefully we would lift the trophy. GO HEAT!!!!!! (By the way I live in Chicago).
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im not mad! heat threw it down!!\n\n!!!GO HEAT!!!
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No it wasn't given to them.  The Mavs missed a lot of key shots in the game last night and in previous games.  Yes, there were bad calls, but that happens.  They went away from what has worked for them and that was driving the paint and playing defense.  They started shooting way too many 3's and pull jumpers (even Avery Johnson said that got away from what they needed to do after the game).  The Heat made the shots and played a better game, point blank.  By the way I am an unbiased fan and have no liking for either team.
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uniform...white pure white
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its not fate buddy boyi its skill\n\ntyhe better team won PERIOD\n\ndallas is too weak mentally to beat a JV team let alone the Heat\n\nGO Heat!
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Its a promotion by the Miami Heat for all fans who go there, I think its called "white hot" playoffs or something. Its to represent the home team jersey colors as a sign of support.
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Its a whiteout promotion, kinda designed to intimdate the other team and be a good home promotion.
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It was all started by the old Winnipeg Jets (now the Buffalo Sabres), its a "White Out". Its to unify all of the fans so that the Heat know that all of the people in the stands wearing white are supporting them. Also, its somehow supposed to get the fans and the players pumped up, i dont know how that is though. If u ask me its pretty stupid, they look like morons, although its funny to see a person wearing something other than white, theyre very noticible. Well anyway, i dont think that its going to help in the long run. Go Pistons!