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Miami Herald: Miami Heat Check

• Feast Week For Heat

  

  While the main dish - or dishes - won't begin to arrive for another couple of weeks after the July 1 start of free agency, today starts what could prove to be the next most important week of the Heat's offseason.

  It's not quite "Feast [...]

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• Answers to Thursday's Heat Q&A

  

  The questions never cease. And with everything the Heat has on the line this summer, there's no shortage of inquiring minds who seek answers.

  I'll admit it up front. I don't have all of them. Might not even have half of them. But I'll do my [...]

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• Wade Opts Out of Team USA Play

  

  Heat guard Dwayne Wade confirmed Saturday that he will not compete with Team USA in the World Championships later this summer.

  Speaking at a promotional event for next month's Summer Groove, Wade says the combination of his pending divorce case and other family and business obligations [...]

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• Haslem's Home Visit

  

  Clearly, the gesture was genuine.

  No one can truly question how much the Heat appreciates Udonis Haslem and how much he's done with and for the organization these past seven years.

  So, on Haslem's 30th birthday Wednesday, the only NBA franchise he's ever known showed up [...]

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• Upward (Draft) Mobility?

  

  The latest workout session at AmericanAirlines Arena had the Heat on Tuesday hosting yet another  prospect projected to be off the board well before Miami is set to pick at No. 18.

  So that begs two questions.

  First, is Pat Riley and the front-office staff seriously considering a [...]

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• Day Of Heat, Haiti and Healing

  

  PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti - First and foremost, I'd like to thank the Heat and Project Medishare for allowing a select group of newspaper and television reporters to take part in a remarkable day of service, sacrifice and stunning scenes from Haiti.

  There's no way to [...]

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• Getting To The Point

  

  After working out dozens of prospects over the past three weeks, Pat Riley and the Miami Heat summoned perhaps its biggest crop of potential first-round picks to AmericanAirlines Arena on Friday.

  And the Heat got straight to the point - as in the point guard position.

  Kentucky's Eric [...]

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• An Option If Joel Opts Out

  

  There aren't many things Pat Riley loves more than reclamation projects and the chance to develop raw prospects who have at least one clear NBA-level skill.

  Anthony Mason. John Starks. Bruce Bowen. Udonis Haslem. Joel Anthony.

  The list goes on and on.

  There's a chance that the next [...]

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• 1st-Rounders in the (Heat's) House

  

  After spending the initial weeks of draft preparations looking at prospects that could fall into the second-round, Pat Riley and his staff of scouts and executives shifted focus this week to hone in on first-round talent.

  The Heat reconvened draft workouts this week at AmericanAirlines [...]

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• Heat's Draft Focus: Length, Maturity

  

  Pat Riley is on the South Side of Chicago putting in plenty of work.

  No, the Heat president of basketball operations is not up there to intensify his recruiting efforts to retain Chicago native and Miami point guard Dwyane Wade.

  That trip, we presume, will come [...]

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