Every NBA team’s greatest enforcer of all time

By Luke Anton | Feb 23, 2022

LOS ANGELES - 1987: Bill Laimbeer #40 of the Detroit Pistons looks on during a game against the Los Angeles Lakers at the Great Western Forum in Los Angeles, California in the 1987-1988 NBA season. (Photo by Rick Stewart/Getty Images) /

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Miami Heat — Udonis Haslem

Udonis Haslem has been an enforcer in the NBA — more specifically, an enforcer for the Miami Heat and the Miami Heat only — for 18 years. And he’s still currently at it!

Haslem has been on the Heat for so long that he flanked Shaq and Wade during the Heat’s first championship run back in 2006. Then U.D. was the muscle for the Heatles, a key contributor during the two years they won the Finals with LeBron, Wade and Bosh. He was around for the bubble Finals, too. He’s still there now.

Haslem rarely gets into games these days, but when he does, you have to tread carefully and look over your shoulder twice. The pinnacle was just last season when Haslem checked into his first and only game of the season and immediately got into a clash with Dwight Howard. Both were promptly ejected. U.D. literally didn’t even play three full minutes before getting tossed. Classic!

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