In 1970, hoping to give the team the size of the staff, the new owners got rid of the geographical prefix, shortening the name to Floridians. Traditionally, Miami had already been a place where the professional basketball club was based: in 1968, the Minnesota Muskies moved here, who was later renamed into Miami Floridians. In 1987, David Stern, the Commissioner of the National Basketball Association, approved the creation of two NBA clubs in Miami and Orlando.
In essence, the local sandy beaches were a kind of a shade of real Florida, the unofficial world capital of drug trafficking. The reason for such a cautious attitude is the ambiguous reputation of the state. For a long time, Florida remained one of the few densely populated and perspective (from a financial point of view) states that the NBA diligently avoided.
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