definitely picked to play for the Heat," Spoelstra said.

The Heat finished 15-67 this past season, matching the worst record in franchise history. It was an injury-marred season  Wade missed 31 games and he, Udonis Haslem, Shawn Marion, Alonzo Mourning and Dorell Wright all suffered season-ending maladies. Plus, when it became apparent that the postseason was out of Miami's reach, the team traded Shaquille O'Neal to Phoenix, ushering in a new rebuilding era.

Beasley, apparently, now becomes the first step in Riley's master plan to turn the Heat around.

"He speaks so highly of coach Riley," Shingler said. "And the reality of it is, like coach Riley, Michael is a winner."EZOBI, JOSEPH BEN ḤANAN BEN NATHAN:

Liturgical poet; lived at Perpignan in the thirteenth century. He was the author of thefollowing: (1) three liturgical poems, the first on the Feast of Pentecost, the second (found in the Avignon ritual), on the ten martyrs under Hadrian (English paraphrase by Israel Gollancz in "Jewish Chronicle," July 19, 1901), and the third a seliḥah beginning with ; (2) "Ḳa'arat Kesef," a poem of 130 distichs, composed for the wedding of his son Samuel (Constantinople, 1523); in it Ezobi advises his son how to comport himself in society, and what studies he ought to pursue. He recommends the study of the Talmud together with the commentaries of Alfasi and Maimonides, and warns him against Greek science, which resembles the fruits of Sodom and