The Miami Heat will take the court this season without LeBron James for the first time since he joined the team in 2010. Instead of focusing on James, the Heat are focused on rebuilding.
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The Miami Heat and Cleveland Cavaliers will take a drama-filled court in Brazil on Saturday night.
LeBron James, of course, left he Heat in favor of a return to the Cavaliers in July. Rather than dwell on James, the Heat are focused on turning their team back into a contender.
“We are trying to understand that we are behind the eight ball because we’ve got 13 new guys,” Heat guard Dwyane Wade said via Tales Azzoni of NBA.com. “We’ve only been together for 10 days on the basketball floor. We’ve got to all understand that we’ve got to have patience, because the last two years just happened, we had the same team and it just happened. But now this is not that kind of team, so we all have to have patience and understand that it’s a process.”
Chris Bosh is preaching patience.
“With this team we have to be patient with each other,” he said. “We have to get better at it and it’s going to take time. We are going to make mistakes and we have to understand that.”
“We are not even close right now, but I like where we are headed,” Bosh added. “Guys are enthusiastic, it’s a very hard-working group. We are starting to pay attention to details, we are starting to really grasp how things go. Saturday will be another opportunity for us to get better.”
The Cavaliers and Heat will tip-off at 5:00 pm EST and the game is on ESPN News.
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