Heat rookie Robert Dozier's aim: Block shots, block out past

[La Bomba]

Robert Dozier can live with the indignity of being the last player taken in the NBA Draft.

 

There are plenty of others, he says, who would have loved to have had their names called at all in the league's two-round, 60-player selection. But there is one affront he never saw coming from the very team that selected him: Going to visit his new Miami Heat teammate, Mario Chalmers, and seeing himself "posterized" just inside the door.

 

As it turns out, Chalmers hit a three-pointer for Kansas with 2.1 seconds left that tied the 2008 NCAA Championship game against Memphis. Watching the shot go in, in the paint, was Robert Dozier - immortalized in a 2-feet by 3-feet poster-sized photograph that Chalmers keeps in his house. Kansas went on to win the game 75-68 in overtime.

 

"I've got two of them at the house," Chalmers said. "You can't miss it."

 

As the Heat's minicamp ended Thursday, Chalmers, Dozier and free-agent guard Antonio Anderson, also a Memphis alum, found themselves in a sort of national championship reunion. It's a memory that Dozier said is still raw.

 

"Aw, man, I don't want to be reminded of that, not with Chalmers in here," Dozier said. "He says something about it every day in practice."

 

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