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The face of Miami's new rotation is straight from Heat lore

Erik Spoelstra was in his 20s when he was working as a video coordinator for the Miami Heat -- younger than most of the core players on that team. Those players included a guard/forward that the Heat had taken from the Phoenix Suns, someone with the nickname "Thunder Dan" but whose was less thunder than he used to be.

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