The Best Opening Day Lineups in Sports History

With the start of the NBA season approaching and the Miami Heat having one of the most highly anticipated, most talented lineups in recent memory, we thought it was time to break down the best opening day lineups in sports history.

There have been plenty of great teams in history and we gave you the top 10 and their resumes. If there's a team you thought should have made the top 10 or you want to let it be known where you think this Miami team will rank in history when it's all said and done, leave it in the comments.

Honorable Mention: 2010-11 Miami Heat

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The Heat find themselves as an honorable mention simply because there are so many great teams out there across sports history and Miami simply has done nothing yet to prove they belong on this list.

Miami has some of the best talent in the league but there are holes on this roster and we don't know how all of that talent is going to mesh once they all take the court. I certainly can't wait to watch them play and see what they can achieve, but until then, they'll just have to hope to one day make a list like this.

No. 10: 1976 Cincinnati Reds

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CINCINNATI - OCTOBER 10: Joe Morgan waves to the crowd before throwing out the first pitch before the Philadelphia Phillies game against the Cincinnati Reds during Game 3 of the NLDS at Great American Ball Park on October 10, 2010 in Cincinnati, Ohio. (

"The Big Red Machine" was led by four Hall of Famers, not to mention Pete Rose as the Cincinnati Reds won a second-straight World Series, and are the last National League team to do so.

The Reds went 102-60, winning their division by 10 games. Joe Morgan won the National League MVP award while Johnny Bench won the World Series MVP award. Cincinnati beat the New York Yankees in the World Series, sweeping the Yankees, becoming the second team to ever do so.

There aren't many offenses in the history of baseball quite like Cincinnati's was.

No. 9: 1962 Green Bay Packers

This Packers team went 13-1 en route to their eighth straight NFL Championship.

The team was led by Bart Starr and Paul Hornung and won 16 straight counting their six exhibition games before finally losing a game to the Detroit Lions. It would be the only blemish on their record as the Packers only allowed 11 points a game that season.

Once Green Bay got to the championship game, the Packers shut down Y.A. Tittle and beat New York 16-7, finishing off the dominating season.

No. 8: 1951-52 Detroit Red Wings

Led by the famous "Production Line" of Gordie Howe, Ted Lindsay and Sid Abel, who finished one, two and three in scoring, the Detroit Red Wings brought home the Stanley Cup.

Howe hit 86 points and won the scoring title as the Red Wings won 15 in a row at one point and only lost consecutive games once all season. Detroit ended up with 44 wins on the year and once the Red Wings made the playoffs, they made short work of their competition.

Detroit won every playoff game in route to the championship as goalie Terry Sawchuk posted four shutouts.  That's really all that needs to be said about that team.

No. 7: 1985 Chicago Bears

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Walter Payton #34 of the Chicago Bears celebrates on the field as the Bears win the NFC Championship.

One of the most intimidating teams of all time, the 1985 Chicago Bears finished the season 15-1 while leading the league in points scored and points allowed.

Chicago was led by Jim McMahon and Walter Payton on offense while William Perry bolstered the defensive line. The Bears also pitched two shutouts to get to the Super Bowl and then blew out New England 46-10 in the Super Bowl to capture the title.

While they didn't go undefeated, the Bears are the greatest football team of all time.

No. 6: 1983-84 Edmonton Oilers

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This team finished the year with 119 points but also ended a four year run of championships by the New York Islanders.

Edmonton set a club record in wins with 57 and led the league in goals with 446. Wayne Gretzky finished with 205 points, scoring 87 goals and notching 117 assists. Meanwhile, Paul Coffey put up 126 points, the second most for a defense man ever, while Mark Messier and Jari Kurri also broke 100 points for the season.

It was the first of Edmonton's run of Stanley Cup championships.

No. 5: 1995-96 Chicago Bulls

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This Bulls team set the record for wins in a season with 72 and won 87 out of 100 games en route to another NBA championship.

Chicago was led by Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen but also had role players like Dennis Rodman, Luc Longley and Toni Kukoc. This was Jordan's first full season after coming back from retirement and started the season 41-3.

Not many teams have a resume quite like that.

No. 4: 1927 New York Yankees

One of the great teams of all time, this Yankees team was nicknamed "Murderers' Row" because of how fearsome their lineup was.

It was headlined by Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig and featured a total of six hall of famers and five players hit over .300 in the starting lineup. New York outscored its opponents by a total of 376 runs. This was also the year that Ruth hit 60 home runs, at the time the most ever hit in a single season.

As if the lineup wasn't bad enough, the pitching staff led the league in ERA.

No. 3: 1955-56 Montreal Canadiens

The greatest hockey team of all time, the Canadiens won the first of five Stanley Cups and had 10 Hall of Fame players on the roster, led by Maurice "Rocket" Richard.

Montreal also had three of the top four scorers in the league that year. This was the team that started a dynasty and turned the Canadiens into one of the most famous franchises in all of sports. When you think dynasty, you think of the Canadiens and this team was the best of the bunch.

No. 2: 1964-65 Boston Celtics

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This team went 62-18 and set a record for most victories in a season at the time. Not only that, but the team had five future Hall of Famers on the team and three of the Top 50 players of all time.

The Celtics won the title which was their seventh straight but not before beating Philadelphia in Game 7 by one point on a steal by John Havlicek.

It was arguably the best team of the Celtics' dynasty and was led by one of the greatest players of all time in Bill Russell. Hard to argue against this Celtics team as the best basketball team of all time.

No. 1: 1939 New York Yankees

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20 Oct 1996: Baseball great Joe Dimaggio walks out to the pitchers mound to throw out the first pitch of the 1996 World Series Game One between the Atlanta Braves and the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York. The Braves defeated the

Arguably the greatest Yankee team of all time, the 1939 Yankees finished with a record of 106-45 and won the World Series.

Joe DiMaggio and Lou Gehrig were on the opening day roster but Gehrig retired after only playing eight games because of his illness. The Yankees went on to win the division by 17 games over the Boston Red Sox and swept the World Series, giving New York a 28-3 record over its last 31 championship games.

DiMaggio led the league with a staggering .381 batting average and won the American League MVP award. He was the centerpiece of an offense that led the league in home runs, RBI, runs scored and slugging percentage.

While the Yankees crushed the ball, they also dominated on the mound with seven pitchers reaching double digit wins.