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“I appreciate the guys who went through a lot of struggles to even get us to this point where we can make decisions on where we want to be and it’s about us being happy,” Heat guard Kyle Lowry said. Fresh off leading Argentina to a World Cup title, the soccer superstar left Saudi money on the table to play in Miami - reportedly, for a lot of money.

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Well, in our market now, it’s up on two sports and it doesn’t end.”Įven when these best-of-seven series are over, Messi is coming. “There’s lots of sports going on, and when you get on one of these runs, the energy level just comes up. “It’s a great introduction for us - we kind of get to move together on this,” Maurice said. The hockey lifer, now a quarter-century in with his fourth NHL organization, hopes the concurrent team runs create more hockey fans in what's still a newer market for the sport. His coach, Paul Maurice, said to his wife a sentence he never had when calling home from Las Vegas: “The Heat game just ended.” Michelle Maurice was watching, too. Any time you can support your fellow South Florida sports teams, it’s good.” “Thankfully for us, (the Heat play) on the off nights, so for us they're pretty easy to tune into. “It’s cool to be a part of,” Panthers forward Ryan Lomberg said.

No market before has hosted final round NBA and NHL games on four consecutive nights. South Florida is the current epicenter of sports madness. Miami's women's team went to the Elite Eight, falling to eventual national champion LSU, and Nova Southeastern won the Division II national title in men's basketball.

The University of Miami and Florida Atlantic each came two wins away from a men's basketball national title this spring. The Heat have won three championships and the Marlins and NFL's Dolphins two apiece. And when there’s no income tax, it’s going to attract anybody.” “Athletes are going to want to live in a state that’s beautiful, weather is great, there’s a great vibe, there’s great nightlife. “As more and more people are migrating to Florida, the same principle goes with athletes,” he said. Schauder, a New Yorker who moved to Florida and works at Nason Yeager Business Law Firm, knows from decades doing deals with the likes of Derek Jeter and Carmelo Anthony how Florida has become so attractive. And the beautiful weather and the whole vibe, so it’s just a snowball effect.” Of course, it starts with LeBron James when he announced that he was coming to Miami (in 2010). What’s happening is Florida’s becoming the go-to destination. “Every now and then all the stars are aligned,” said Ed Schauder, a sports and entertainment lawyer who now lives in Florida. Florida having no state income tax makes the contracts signed by Messi, Jimmy Butler and Matthew Tkachuk worth more than in many other places, and it plays a role in elite athletes wanting to call the state home. Some of it is coincidental, but certainly not all of it. Now that he is here, I think all the futbol-slash-soccer fans from all over the world are going to come here and get an opportunity to watch him compete. Obviously, us being in the finals and having an opportunity to do something special. “I’m excited for the city of Miami in so many different ways. “I’m so excited for the city of Miami, to be able to have a player of that caliber here,” said Heat star Jimmy Butler, who has often said soccer - he calls it futbol - is his favorite sport. It also had two teams in college basketball's Final Four, a women's team in the Elite Eight and the Division II national champions in men's basketball. All this after the F1 Miami Grand Prix and NHL All-Star weekend were staged in South Florida, the sudden center of the sports universe.