MIAMI — What started as the Miami Heat’s first two athletic trainers warehousing team game-worn memorabilia and then grew into initial conceptual plans for some type of team museum on Tuesday turned into the U.S. Department of Justice offering further details into a massive theft that robbed the franchise of some of its history.

The federal investigation has been 18 months in the making, involving stolen and re-sold memorabilia worn by the likes of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Shaquille O’Neal, a collection that had been accumulated by the team since the start of the Heat’s championship era in 2008.

While there had been no set plan for the internal use of the memorabilia, a source told the South Florida Sun Sentinel that discussion has been ongoing for some type of hall of honor for

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