Former Florida teammates Udonis Haslem, Mike Miller energizing Miami Heat's title drive

It was 1998, on the University of Florida campus. They were freshmen from dissimilar backgrounds, one white and from South Dakota, the other black and from South Florida.

Both trying to make an early impression as young Gators, even in a friendly scrimmage.

"I tried to dunk on him," Mike Miller says.

"He tried to," Udonis Haslem says. "He didn't dunk."

"He took me out of the air," Miller says. "That's when I realized that's how he plays."

"Yeah, knocked him down," Haslem says, grinning.