Wade returned to play and the Heat held a six-point lead with three minutes remaining.

The Mavs returned to the NBA Finals for a second time, creating a rematch of the 2006 NBA Finals against the Miami Heat.

He returned to WWE for one night on May 30, 2005 and faced Maven on Sunday Night Heat.

Although she had successful albums and singles, Braxton shortly filed for bankruptcy, but then returned with her chart-topping third album, The Heat ( 2000 ).

Buchanan returned to the WWF on the March 19, 2000 edition of Sunday Night Heat, now under the name Bull Buchanan and dressed in a SWAT Uniform, helping The Big Boss Man attack Mideon.

Brown returned to TV on the April 28, 2002 episode of Heat, losing to Eddie Guerrero.

Heat returned to the United Kingdom and Ireland in January 2003 on Sky One ( with repeats on Sky Sports ), though the coverage became Sky Sports exclusive in January 2005 along with most of WWE's programming.

After attending drug rehab, he returned to In the Heat of the Night as a guest star.

Jefferson ended up missing 49 games, but returned to action for the first round of the playoffs against the Miami Heat.

Upon their return in January 1996, they immediately started a feud with the Steiner Brothers, who returned in March, and Harlem Heat, before moving on to challenge the WCW Tag Team Champions Sting and Lex Luger.

Palumbo officially returned on the May 25, 2007 edition of Heat ( retaining the biker gimmick, as well as growing his hair out ) defeating Charlie Haas.

After the company was renamed to World Wrestling Entertainment in May 2002, Hugger returned to WWE television on the June 30, 2002 episode of Sunday Night Heat under the ring name Johnny " The Bull " Stamboli, losing via disqualification to Tommy Dreamer.

As a result, Kendrick was mainly used as a jobber on Raw, until London returned at the start of February 2008, although Kendrick still won sometimes on Heat.

He returned for an 18-Man Battle Royal on Heat, immediately before WrestleMania 22.

After an 8 month hiatus from WWE TV he returned under the name of " Antoni Polaski " and defeated Val Venis on the April 30 edition of Raw in a match taped for Heat and on the May 4 edition of SmackDown he would defeat Funaki in a match taped for Velocity.

O ' Haire returned to WWE on the June 30, 2002 edition of Heat, defeating Justin Credible.

After being absent for over a year, Gillberg returned to the WWF and lost his Light Heavyweight Championship to the debuting Essa Rios on a February 2000 edition of Sunday Night Heat.

McDonald played flute, clarinet, saxophone and sang backing vocals for " In the Court of the Crimson King " and also returned for the encore to sing backing vocals for " Heat of the Moment.

He returned in July for Summer Heat where he took on Patrick Shulz, who he had tagged with at the previous event, and won in a grudge match.

He returned to WWE to face Ron Simmons in a match on WWE Heat, and on October 14, 2007, appeared for TNA's flagship pay-per-view, Bound for Glory, competing in a dark match with Joey Matthews against The Motor City Machineguns.

Having disappeared from the WWF for over a month, Ryan returned on an episode of WWF Heat, distracting Droz during a tag team match, causing a loss against The Brood.

Danielson returned to the company on later dates after it was renamed World Wrestling Entertainment to compete on its secondary programming, Velocity and Heat, initially as enhancement talent before being allowed to compete in longer matches ; he once wrestled future WWE Champion John Cena in a losing effort.

After being off of WWF television for several months, Gill returned on the February 13, 2000 episode of Sunday Night Heat for one final match in order to lose the championship to the debuting Essa Rios.

Although Edwards received some critical acclaim for his live performances and vocal style, Unusual Heat was a commercial failure, and Lou Gramm returned the following year, effectively ending Edwards ' tenure as frontman.

A series of missed shots and turnovers ensued, that cost the Heat their first-ever finals game-7 in an 88 – 82 loss.

Head coach Van Gundy led the Heat to the Eastern Conference finals during the 2005 playoffs, although they lost to the Detroit Pistons after being up 3 – 2 in the series.

Riley's Heat team defeated his Los Angeles Lakers-days nemesis, the Detroit Pistons, in the 2006 Eastern Conference Finals on June 2, 2006, making it the first time the Miami Heat reached the finals.

Laredo Heat became the first team to reach three consecutive PDL finals in 2008

The Celtics then played the Miami Heat in the conference finals.

During his tenure with the Pistons, perhaps his most important contribution was playing excellent defense on star center Shaquille O ' Neal in the two playoff series in which the Pistons engaged O ' Neal's teams ( the Lakers in the 2004 finals, the Miami Heat in the 2005 NBA Eastern Conference Finals ); because of his enormous bulk and strength, he presented a unique challenge to O ' Neal in the low post and was one of the few NBA players who could pose a serious physical challenge to O ' Neal on defense.

A penalty shootout victory over Brooklyn Knights after a 1 – 1 tie in the semi finals sent the Bucks to the Championship game for the second consecutive year – where, once again, their opponents were Southern Conference champions Laredo Heat.

On August 1, 2009, the stadium hosted Monster Jam Summer Heat, with Maximum Destruction defeating Captain's Curse in the racing finals and Grave Digger winning the freestyle event.

On January 5, 2010, the Heat traded Chris Quinn to the New Jersey Nets for a 2012 second draft pick which allowed the team to sign recently released guard Rafer Alston.

On May 8, 2012, the Pacers defeated the Orlando Magic 105-87 to win their first playoff series since 2005 and would go on to play the Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference Semifinals.

* Global Warming Makes Heat Waves More Likely, Study Finds July 10, 2012 NYT, regarding effects of global warming.

* The arena was once again the host of the 2012 NBA Finals ( along with the Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City ) when the Heat played the Oklahoma City Thunder, winning the NBA Championship in five games.

Riley most recently won the 2012 NBA Championship with the Miami Heat as their team president.

Following these one-year preliminary design studies, the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport mission was selected August 2012.

Newcastle Eagles were crowned BBL Champions for 2012, winning their 5th Championship and becoming the most successful team in the League's history, while Guildford Heat were the BBL's most recent representatives in Europe, competing in the ULEB Cup during the 2007-08 season.

A similar format to Sunday Night Heat revived with a pay-per-view pre-show that was implemented since WrestleMania XXVIII in 2012.

On June 21, 2012, Howard became the first and only member of the Fab Five to win an NBA championship, as a role player on the Miami Heat.

During the 2012 NBA Playoffs, due to the " White Hot Playoffs " of the Miami Heat, Burnie changed his outfit.

* In the Heat of the Night ( Fall 2012 )

* White Heat ( TV series ), a BBC 2012 TV series

After working on the Miramax film, Heat, Miramax has acquired the film rights to the first four of McNab's novels, and Echelon ( 2012 ) is currently in production, based on the book Firewall ( 2000 ).

She played Beth in the 2012 BBC series White Heat.

The fourth book in the series, " Frozen Heat ", was released on September 11, 2012.

On 3 July 2012, Heat launched, featuring celebrity news and music.

* 2012: Miami Heat

Since then, Burnett has composed the music for many other films such as I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, Iron Cross ( film ), Crave ( 2012 film ), Java Heat ( 2013 film ) as well as many others.

In 2012, the arena became the host of the 2012 NBA Finals, when the Thunder went up against the Miami Heat for the league championship.

The Detroit Pistons and Boston Celtics have each won it three times and the Houston Rockets and Miami Heat have each won it twice, The Heat is the current team holding it, having won the 2012 NBA Finals.

For 2011, the Heat, Uptown, and Mainstreet were three available trim levels of the Caliber, reverting back to SXT and SXT Plus in 2012.

* White Heat ( as Alan ) ( 2012 )