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Daily Dime: Heat rising, Suns clouded over - NBA
PHOENIX -- The desert home of the running Phoenix Suns , on the 10th day of a six-game road trip, is the last setting you'd have imagined for the Miami Heat 's resurrection. It certainly wasn't supposed to happen here. Not how they did it, either. The Suns, after all, are universally regarded as the toughest team to adjust to on the back end of a back-to-back set because no one else plays ...
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Which NBA teams project to have the most cap space over the next two years?
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