<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The HEAT?s official Web site, HEAT.com, recently has been recognized by Street and Smith?s Sports Business Journal (SBJ) as the best professional sports team Internet Web site out of 131 team sites (including NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL and MLS) in the design/technical category. The rankings, conducted by SBJ and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst reviewed four categories; content, commerce, design/technical and fan interactivity, using a 40-question, 122-point Internet audit. HEAT.com ranked third overall among all NBA teams (behind the Phoenix Suns and Memphis Grizzlies) and 29th overall of all 131 professional sports team sites.</div> Also, the Miami Heat store was named best NBA Retailer of 2003! <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The NBA has named the HEAT?s Retail Operations Department the ?NBA Retailer of the Year 2003? for their outstanding guest service, creativity in sales efforts, in-arena per cap sales, and store layout, design and merchandising. The announcement was made last month at the NBA Retail Meeting in Orlando, FL. Miami Hoops Gear (in-Arena store) and www.miamihoopsgear.com (Internet Web site store) finished the 2002-03 NBA season ranked eighth for in-Arena per cap sales and are currently ranked seventh thus far this season.</div> Click here for more. Check out the Miami Heat website @ HEAT.com.
