Miami Heat Training Camp Will Serve As Opportunity To Fill Out Two Remaining Spots In Starting Lineup

Heat looking to complete starting lineup during camp
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The Miami Heat starting lineup has three locks: Jimmy Butler, Kyle Lowry and Bam Adebayo. 

The remaining two spots will be filled during training camp, which started Tuesday in the Bahamas. The Heat have plenty candidates at shooting guard and power forward. 

Duncan Robinson, Max Strus and Victor Oladipo are fighting for the guard spot alongside Lowry. Caleb Martin is the likely starter at power forward but Robinson also held the role last season before falling out of the rotation. There's also Haywood Highsmith and Omer Yurtseven.

"There’s like five competing for the four, so they can all five, all four beat me out so I don’t have to play the four," Butler said Tuesday. "That’s my hope. “We have some guys, they should be thinking, ‘This is my spot. I deserve to start.’ But if you think you deserve to start, you’re going to have to go out there and prove it.”

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SHANDEL RICHARDSON

Shandel has covered the NBA since 2010, with previous stops at The Athletic and South Florida Sun-Sentinel.  He has covered six NBA Finals, one Super Bowl, the NCAA basketball tournament. He has also been a beat writer for the Miami Hurricanes and contributed on every major beat in South Florida since 2003, including the Miami Dolphins and Miami Marlins. He can also be read in the Sportsbook Review for gambling coverage from around the NBA. A native of Bloomington, Illinois, Shandel attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He's also worked for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Kansas City Star.  TWITTER: @ShandelRich EMAIL: shandelrich@gmail.com You can subscribe to our YouTube channel here Follow all of our Miami Heat coverage on Facebook here