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MIAMI — Norman Powell looks happy . Just-made-the-varsity-team happy . He breaks into a big smile, sitting on the sideline after a recent practice.

There’s a refreshing excitement about him — an honest energy to earn his keep — as if he were a rookie and not an 11-year NBA veteran. Some days he can’t believe he’s actually here , on this floor, in his first season playing for the Miami Heat.

He’s dreamed of playing for Miami since he was a child. And he almost feels like one again when he walks into the Heat locker room each day, knowing he has the same locker as Dwyane Wade, his childhood idol. “Crazy,” Powell says, still l

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