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Heat Donate $200k To Help Veterans Become Coaches

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MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) — The Miami Heat have a reputation as one of the best, classiest organizations in professional sports.

The way Heat President Pat Riley sees it, there are some real similarities between being a soldier and being a coach.

And now, some former soldiers are getting a chance to prove him right.

The Heat charitable fund has provided $200,000 to a program called Operation Coach, part of an organization called Up2Us Sports that is trying to give returning veterans from the post-Sept.