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MIAMI -- The Heat are finalizing a flurry of weekend moves to restock the roster in the stinging aftermath of franchise icon Dwyane Wades free-agency departure to the Chicago Bulls. Pierre Pilote Jersey .The Heat on Sunday reached a deal to re-sign veteran forward Udonis Haslem, according to a league source, and announced the signings of shooting guard Wayne Ellington and forward James Johnson.The Heat, a league source said, were also expected to match Brooklyns four-year, $50 million offer sheet to retain restricted free-agent guard Tyler Johnson. Miami faced a Sunday-night deadline for deciding on Johnson.On Friday, the Heat signed former New York Knicks forward Derrick Williams.The Miami Herald was first to report Haslems one-year, $4 million deal to stay in Miami, where he is the only remaining player who played in all three of the Heats championship seasons. The signings exhaust nearly all of the $20 million in cap space the Heat had after re-signing center Hassan Whiteside to a four-year, $98 million deal July 1 in the opening hours of free agency.Of the weekend signings, only Johnsons deal is for longer than two seasons under team president Pat Rileys plan to maintain flexibility in hopes of attracting a marquee free agent next summer to speed up the rebuilding process. The activity came on the heels of Wades decision Wednesday to turn down Miamis two-year, $41.5 million offer after a second straight summer of acrimonious negotiations with the Heat. Riley had hoped to use the remaining $20 million for Wades salary next season.Wade instead agreed to a two-year, $47 million deal with the Bulls and confirmed Saturday that a rift with Riley during the process factored into his decision to walk away.The 34-year-old Wade spent his first 13 seasons in Miami, is the franchises career leader in scoring and helped lead the Heat to five NBA Finals appearances and three championships. Riley has not spoken publicly since Wades departure.Sometimes, change is good for both sides, Wade said Saturday during his youth basketball camp in Miami. Im not sitting here saying that change will not be good for the Miami Heat. We might not see it immediately. We might see it later.Also, the Heat have sent a future second-round pick and cash to the New Orleans Pelicans in exchange for veteran power forward Luke Babbitt. Artem Anisimov Jersey . - Chris Tierney snapped a tie with a power-play goal late in the third period as the London Knights rallied from a 3-0 deficit to beat the Erie Otters 5-3 in Ontario Hockey League action on Wednesday. White Blackhawks Jerseys . Mitch Holmberg added a goal and three assists. Connor Chartier also scored for the Chiefs (3-0-0). Luke Harrison spoiled Garrett Hughsons shutout bid with a power-play goal at 13:17 of the third period. The Spokane goaltender finished with 28 saves, including a Brandon Fushimi penalty shot in the second period that would have tied the game 1-1. http://www.authenticblackhawksshopnhl.com/jonathan-toews-jersey/ .Y. -- Vancouver Canucks goaltender Roberto Luongo had little trouble picking up his first shutout of the season against a Buffalo Sabres team thats having trouble scoring goals.Ben Ransom gets a behind-the-scenes look at the facilities that the British Olympic Association hope will be the launch-pad to another record-breaking medal haul. Be prepared or prepare to fail.Its an old cliché but its one that Team GB are living by as they get ready for Rio 2016.  The plans are certainly impressive, with the British Olympic Association (BOA) putting more money than ever before into the preparation for an overseas Games. £1.6m of lottery funding has been set aside by UK Sport to fund the biggest pre-Games training camp a British team has ever had. In fact they believe its the biggest and most extensive training camp of any of the other nations competing in Rio. Lofty ambitions indeed.Two weeks before the opening ceremony, British athletes will begin boarding flights to Brazil, but having landed at the host city of Rio de Janeiro theyll jump straight onto another plane and fly 45 minutes north into the mountains. Belo Horizonte is a city that conjures up painful sporting memories for those who follow England, and in particular English football. Not only was it the scene of one of their most humiliating ever World Cup results in 1950 when they were beaten by a team of amateurs from the USA, the return 64 years later saw Roy Hodgsons England crash out of the 2014 competition after a lacklustre goalless draw with Costa Rica.Thankfully its a unified British team that will be touching down later this summer and when they arrive theyll be greeted by the best training facilities found anywhere in Brazil. The athletics track has the exact same surface as the Olympic Stadium in Rio, while Belo Horizonte is also home to Brazils only other indoor 50-metre swimming pool to meet international standards.  Team GB will have access to a 50-metre swimming pool, one of only two pools to meet the international standard in Brazil Each and every competing sport will enjoy a similar level of meticulous preparation, with a fleet of shipping containers crossing the Atlantic right now bringing with them everything from canoe slalom start gates to full-size Olympic boxing rings. Even the hotel rooms here will get the Team GB treatment to make sure athletes feel right at home - with patriotic posters and Union Flag cushions on the sofas.Paul Ford is the Head of pre-Games training and explained to Sky Sports News HQ why theyre going to all of the trouble.Technical training is the first most important thing and after that were then looking at how we can best acclimatise, Ford said.Were only 45 minutes flight away from Rio so its got exactly the same climate, which allows the athletes to go through the process of that four-hour time zone shift and get used to being inside Brazil before they go into the village and do their competition.The other key part of it is bringing together Team GB because they might come here as British Judo or the British fencing team, but they leave here as part of Team GB ready to take on the world. The running track Team GBs athletes will train on at Belo Horizonte will be the exact same surface found at the Olympic Stadium in Rio In 2010 the BOA wouldve been forgiven for putting everything into making sure London 2012 lived up to all the hype. Alex DeBrincat Jersey.   However, in addition to focusing on their own backyard, a delegation was also more than 5,000 miles away visiting the training venues here in Belo Horizonte. To put it into some perspective, recent media reports in Brazil questioned why the home nation had not secured the facilities in Belo instead to give themselves the best chance of success this summer.Brazils loss is Britains gain and rather than looking at it as an expensive gamble, Team GB are confident the investment of time and money will pave the way for their most successful ever overseas Games. To do that they have to get a total of 48 medals, one more than they achieved in Beijing 2008. But having spent three days travelling around with the BOA delegation theres no sense of settling for that figure.  Instead theres optimism that British performances in Rio could even push their greatest ever Olympic medal haul - when Team GB landed a total of 65 medals, including 29 golds in London. Sky Sports Orla Chennaoui brings us the latest news from Belo Horizonte where Team GB will soon begin their preparations for this summers Olympic Games As was the case in the build-up to London 2012 there are also negative headlines. Brazil is a country facing huge political and social problems, as well as a battle with the well-publicised Zika virus. Team GB want to leave their own human legacy in their home from home. Much of the training equipment being brought out and paid for by UK Sport will then be donated to local sports clubs in Belo Horizonte. And who knows, it might even be the small act of trans-Atlantic kindness that allows a young Brazilian athlete to fulfil their dream of going for gold in Tokyo 2020.That truly would be a legacy of Olympic proportions. Also See: Schedule/Results Ones to Watch Photos Athletics Video Cheap NFL Jerseys Throwback Cheap NFL Hoodies Black China NFL Jerseys Youth NFL Jerseys China Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys Jerseys From China Wholesale Jerseys 2019 ' ' ' 

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