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Heat, Spoelstra Look At Camp As Extension Of Last Season

BOCA RATON (CBSMiami/AP) — A new basketball season is almost upon us.

Part of Miami coach Erik Spoelstra’s annual mandate to players, whether a 16-year veteran like Dwyane Wade or a second-year guy like Bam Adebayo, is to evolve.

Spoelstra expects the same from himself.

The Heat opened training camp on Tuesday with players who accounted for 98 percent of their scoring, 98 percent of their assists and 97 percent of their rebounding from last season. And keeping the same team means that those players, by now, have heard just about every speech and seen just about every trick in the Heat book.