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Pat Riley-led Heat 2006 championship season could be the model for 2016 team

2016 marks the tenth anniversary of Dwyane Wade's 2006 NBA Championship, can lessons be learned from that season?

The 2005-06 NBA Champion Miami Heat led the NBA in rebounding. The Heat's profile this season is closer to that squad than the LeBron James team. Should Erik Spoelstra follow Pat Riley's successful formula of that glorious campaign?

Instead of Shaquille O'Neal and Dwyane Wade, the Heat have Hassan Whiteside and Goran Gragic as their main engines, with Wade acting as the "glue guy" to hold the pieces together. Luol Deng, Justise Winslow, Josh McRoberts, Gerald Green, Amar'e Stoudemire, Udonis Haslem all contribute to give the Heat this season a rebounding powerhouse.