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Haslem played in his 593rd game with the Heat on Tuesday, tying Alonzo Mourning for second on the Heat’s all-time list.

“It’s huge,” Haslem said.

“Just to think back to when I first came and being undrafted and having to work so hard and the blood, sweat and tears just to be a part of the organization and be a part of the team, and I never would have thought nine years later this is the situation I would be in.”

Haslem trails Wade by three games on the games-played list.

“The thing is, ‘Who’s going to play longer?’ ” Haslem joked. “Now that’s the question. We’ll see. Right now I feel pretty good, and he does also, so we’ll see.”

Haslem, 31, is a year older than Wade. A career reserve, he moved into the Heat’s starting lineup in April and has flourished in his new role. He had 26 rebounds in the Heat’s final two home games of the regular season.

“I’m just going out and playing hard,” Haslem said. “Rebounding is all about rhythm, and I’ve been a real good rhythm of late and, obviously, Chris [Bosh] has been out, so there’s been a couple more available boards.”

The Miami Herald

BY JOSEPH GOODMAN
JGOODMAN@MIAMIHERALD.COM

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Heat’s Udonis Haslem rounding into form

Slowly but surely Miami’s Udonis Haslem’s game is coming around, which is the timetable coach Erik Spoelstra expected after the veteran power forward missed most of last season with a foot injury that required an offseason follow-up procedure.

Lately, in additional to his routine domination on the boards, he has been more reliable with his offense.

“You can’t cheat the game,” said Spoelstra, whose team won 105-90 Tuesday at Indiana and is off until a Friday game in Cleveland that concludes this six-game trip.

“He only played about eight to 10 weeks in the last 12 months, and he was able to do something really unique in the playoffs.

Nobody can miss a regular season and then come into an Eastern Conference finals, the most competitive time of the year, and have an impact, and he did. But that speaks to really his competitive will.

“Then he had surgery the day after the season and was out another couple of months and the lockout, so I think a lot of it was rhythm and he’s been able to get to it.”

To Spoelstra, the slow early go was merely a product of getting past the injury, the lockout and age.

“I said it before – the last lockout, players around 30, it took ‘em about six weeks to get into their normal shape,” Spoelstra said.

“If you’ve been out most of the year, I said probably expect double that. Now with him it won’t take that much more time.”

Haslem said he can feel his game coming around.

“I’ve been getting more and more consecutive minutes at a time, and so I continue to get more and more comfortable,” Haslem said.

Haslem said the only way to improve on the court is to maximize his opportunities on the court.

“There’s been a lack of practice time this season and I didn’t play much last year, so I got to take advantage,” he said. “Those guys had more opportunities to play together than I did last year.”

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