1996-97 Miami Heat Statistics

National Basketball Association (NBA)
Team Record: 61-21
Finishing 1st in the NBA's Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference
Postseason: 8-9 Lost conference finals
Conference First Round - Defeated Orlando Magic 3-2
Conference Semifinals - Defeated New York Knicks 4-3
Conference Finals - Lost to Chicago Bulls 4-1
Coach: Pat Riley (61-21)
Location: Miami, Florida
Attendance: 615,160, Avg. 15,004 in 41 home dates

1996-97 Miami Heat Roster
1996-97 Miami Heat Results

The Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association ended the 1996-97 season with a record of 61 wins and 21 losses, finishing first in the NBA's Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. The team compiled a postseason mark of 8-9.

The Heat racked up 7,776 points and yielded 7,326. Tim Hardaway netted a team-leading 1,644 points for Miami, while Alonzo Mourning scored 15 or more per game also. P.J. Brown contributed 670 rebounds. Tim Hardaway dished out 695 assists for the squad.

Defensively, Tim Hardaway added 151 steals, and Alonzo Mourning swatted 189 opponent shot attempts.

Pat Riley coached the team. The 1996-97 Miami Heat lost in the conference finals.

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Player Totals:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Min	FGA	FGM	3PA	3PM	FTA	FTM	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Tim Hardaway	G	81	81	3136	1384	575	590	203	364	291	49	228	277	695	151	9	230	165	1644
Alonzo Mourning	C	66	65	2320	885	473	9	1	565	363	189	467	656	104	56	189	226	272	1310
Voshon Lenard	G	73	47	2111	684	314	442	183	105	86	38	179	217	161	50	18	109	168	897
Isaac Austin	F-C	82	17	1881	639	321	3	0	226	150	136	342	478	101	45	43	161	244	792
P.J. Brown	C-F	80	71	2592	656	300	2	0	220	161	239	431	670	92	85	98	113	283	761
Sasha Danilovic	G	43	33	1351	396	175	176	63	94	73	21	81	102	77	39	8	94	123	486
Jamal Mashburn	F	32	30	1189	367	146	146	48	117	88	41	138	179	111	43	7	57	117	428
Dan Majerle	G-F	36	26	1264	347	141	201	68	59	40	45	117	162	116	54	14	50	75	390
Keith Askins	G-F	78	30	1773	319	138	172	69	58	39	86	185	271	75	53	19	59	196	384
John Crotty	G	48	0	659	154	79	49	20	64	54	15	32	47	102	18	0	42	79	232
Kurt Thomas	F	18	9	374	105	39	1	0	46	35	31	76	107	9	12	9	25	67	113
Gary Grant	G	28	0	365	110	39	46	14	22	18	8	30	38	45	16	0	27	39	110
Willie Anderson	G-F	28	1	303	64	29	19	8	20	17	15	27	42	34	14	4	19	36	83
Ed Pinckney	F	27	0	273	43	23	0	0	25	20	25	40	65	6	8	9	19	30	66
Mark Strickland	F	31	0	153	60	25	1	0	21	12	16	21	37	1	4	10	15	17	62
Martin Muursepp	F	10	0	27	14	5	4	1	14	6	2	3	5	3	0	1	3	3	17
James Scott	F	8	0	32	8	0	4	0	2	1	1	5	6	3	2	0	2	5	1
Matt Fish	C	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Bruce Bowen	F-G	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Totals		771	410	19805	6235	2822	1865	678	2022	1454	957	2402	3359	1735	650	439	1252	1919	7776

Player Averages:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Tim Hardaway	G	81	81	38.7	41.5	34.4	79.9	0.6	2.8	3.4	8.6	1.9	0.1	2.8	2.0	20.3
Alonzo Mourning	C	66	65	35.2	53.4	11.1	64.2	2.9	7.1	9.9	1.6	0.8	2.9	3.4	4.1	19.8
Voshon Lenard	G	73	47	28.9	45.9	41.4	81.9	0.5	2.5	3.0	2.2	0.7	0.2	1.5	2.3	12.3
Isaac Austin	F-C	82	17	22.9	50.2	0.0	66.4	1.7	4.2	5.8	1.2	0.5	0.5	2.0	3.0	9.7
P.J. Brown	C-F	80	71	32.4	45.7	0.0	73.2	3.0	5.4	8.4	1.2	1.1	1.2	1.4	3.5	9.5
Sasha Danilovic	G	43	33	31.4	44.2	35.8	77.7	0.5	1.9	2.4	1.8	0.9	0.2	2.2	2.9	11.3
Jamal Mashburn	F	32	30	37.2	39.8	32.9	75.2	1.3	4.3	5.6	3.5	1.3	0.2	1.8	3.7	13.4
Dan Majerle	G-F	36	26	35.1	40.6	33.8	67.8	1.3	3.3	4.5	3.2	1.5	0.4	1.4	2.1	10.8
Keith Askins	G-F	78	30	22.7	43.3	40.1	67.2	1.1	2.4	3.5	1.0	0.7	0.2	0.8	2.5	4.9
John Crotty	G	48	0	13.7	51.3	40.8	84.4	0.3	0.7	1.0	2.1	0.4	0.0	0.9	1.6	4.8
Kurt Thomas	F	18	9	20.8	37.1	0.0	76.1	1.7	4.2	5.9	0.5	0.7	0.5	1.4	3.7	6.3
Gary Grant	G	28	0	13.0	35.5	30.4	81.8	0.3	1.1	1.4	1.6	0.6	0.0	1.0	1.4	3.9
Willie Anderson	G-F	28	1	10.8	45.3	42.1	85.0	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.2	0.5	0.1	0.7	1.3	3.0
Ed Pinckney	F	27	0	10.1	53.5		80.0	0.9	1.5	2.4	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.7	1.1	2.4
Mark Strickland	F	31	0	4.9	41.7	0.0	57.1	0.5	0.7	1.2	0.0	0.1	0.3	0.5	0.5	2.0
Martin Muursepp	F	10	0	2.7	35.7	25.0	42.9	0.2	0.3	0.5	0.3	0.0	0.1	0.3	0.3	1.7
James Scott	F	8	0	4.0	0.0	0.0	50.0	0.1	0.6	0.8	0.4	0.3	0.0	0.3	0.6	0.1
Matt Fish	C	1	0	1.0				0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0
Bruce Bowen	F-G	1	0	1.0				0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Averages		771	410	25.7	45.3	36.4	71.9	1.2	3.1	4.4	2.3	0.8	0.6	1.6	2.5	10.1

Postseason - Player Totals:

Player	Pos	GP	Min	FGA	FGM	3PA	3PM	FTA	FTM	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Tim Hardaway	G	17	701	287	103	134	42	88	70	13	56	69	119	27	1	53	37	318
Alonzo Mourning	C	17	630	218	107	8	3	155	86	44	129	173	18	11	46	70	73	303
Voshon Lenard	G	17	548	155	63	91	36	37	32	12	38	50	36	11	3	30	49	194
Jamal Mashburn	F	17	554	168	65	62	22	40	26	22	62	84	35	17	2	30	58	178
Dan Majerle	G-F	17	496	117	46	74	25	28	19	16	56	72	43	21	4	13	31	136
P.J. Brown	C-F	15	451	103	42	0	0	53	38	48	81	129	10	9	20	16	40	122
Isaac Austin	F-C	15	287	81	36	4	1	31	25	16	50	66	6	6	7	22	35	98
John Crotty	G	15	125	33	13	12	5	7	6	5	6	11	11	4	0	14	15	37
Willie Anderson	G-F	9	120	30	11	8	2	10	9	2	15	17	5	4	2	12	20	33
Keith Askins	G-F	12	146	23	10	12	6	4	4	11	17	28	7	3	2	3	26	30
Mark Strickland	F	4	16	8	4	0	0	2	0	0	3	3	1	1	0	2	0	8
Ed Pinckney	F	2	6	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	4
Totals		157	4080	1226	502	405	142	455	315	189	513	702	292	114	87	265	384	1461

Postseason Player Averages:

Player	Pos	GP	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Tim Hardaway	G	17	41.2	35.9	31.3	79.5	0.8	3.3	4.1	7.0	1.6	0.1	3.1	2.2	18.7
Alonzo Mourning	C	17	37.1	49.1	37.5	55.5	2.6	7.6	10.2	1.1	0.6	2.7	4.1	4.3	17.8
Voshon Lenard	G	17	32.2	40.6	39.6	86.5	0.7	2.2	2.9	2.1	0.6	0.2	1.8	2.9	11.4
Jamal Mashburn	F	17	32.6	38.7	35.5	65.0	1.3	3.6	4.9	2.1	1.0	0.1	1.8	3.4	10.5
Dan Majerle	G-F	17	29.2	39.3	33.8	67.9	0.9	3.3	4.2	2.5	1.2	0.2	0.8	1.8	8.0
P.J. Brown	C-F	15	30.1	40.8		71.7	3.2	5.4	8.6	0.7	0.6	1.3	1.1	2.7	8.1
Isaac Austin	F-C	15	19.1	44.4	25.0	80.6	1.1	3.3	4.4	0.4	0.4	0.5	1.5	2.3	6.5
John Crotty	G	15	8.3	39.4	41.7	85.7	0.3	0.4	0.7	0.7	0.3	0.0	0.9	1.0	2.5
Willie Anderson	G-F	9	13.3	36.7	25.0	90.0	0.2	1.7	1.9	0.6	0.4	0.2	1.3	2.2	3.7
Keith Askins	G-F	12	12.2	43.5	50.0	100.0	0.9	1.4	2.3	0.6	0.3	0.2	0.3	2.2	2.5
Mark Strickland	F	4	4.0	50.0		0.0	0.0	0.8	0.8	0.3	0.3	0.0	0.5	0.0	2.0
Ed Pinckney	F	2	3.0	66.7			0.0	0.0	0.0	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.0
Averages		771	26.0	40.9	35.1	69.2	1.2	3.3	4.5	1.9	0.7	0.6	1.7	2.4	9.3

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