Saved by the dumbbell: Wade adds muscle.

Publication: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)

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Byline: Ira Winderman

MIAMI _ As he prepared for another season as the scout-team body charged with chasing Dwyane Wade, second-year Heat guard Dorell Wright paused.

``Oh Lord,'' he said as he glanced toward Wade.

``He got serious.''

Wright knew Wade had been hitting the weights over the summer, with the two in the same Athletic Attack program in Chicago run by Tim Grover, the strength coach to Michael Jordan.

So after a season of getting run past and leaped over by Wade on the practice court, Wright recognized the realities of now getting outmuscled, as well.

``He's a whole lot stronger,'' Wright said.

``Half the time, he's too quick, he's going by you, so you don't have a chance to see...

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