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Heat to Gilas: Welcome to Miami

The Philippine Star

MANILA, Philippines – Aware of Gilas Pilipinas’ presence in its city, the Miami Heat welcomed the Philippine national team and head coach Chot Reyes through its official Twitter account.

Reyes, in response, invited the Heat to check out their practices.

The Nationals are in Miami, South Florida, for a training camp in preparation for the 2014 FIBA World Cup in Madrid, Spain next month. They flew in with naturalized player Andray Blatche of the Brooklyn Nets, who happens to own a house in South Beach.

RELATED: Blatche joins Gilas practice; players unlearn PBA habits

Gilas pool members L.A. Tenorio and Beau Belga even posted photos of them with Heat forward Luol Deng.

The Heat recently acquired Deng in the free agency market, hoping the versatile forward will somehow fill the void left by superstar LeBron James, who decided not to re-sign with Miami and instead returned to Cleveland.

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