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UFC light heavyweight Ryan Bader had no intention of pursuing free agency in 2016, but when it came time to negotiate his next contract, the same two words kept coming up: Why not?Bader (21-5) is scheduled to face Antonio Rogerio Nogueira on Saturday in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The bout will headline UFC Fight Night -- and represents the final fight of his contract.According to Bader, the UFC offered him a new four-fight deal, but the terms just didnt excite him. The 33-year-old is approaching his 20th UFC appearance, and hes willing to at least explore what else is out there.The UFCs offer was par for the course -- nothing crazy or anything that made us say, Oh man, we need to take this! Bader told ESPN.com. It was one of those things where we were in a position to say, Why not fight out the contract? It doesnt mean Im leaving the UFC, but why not see what happens?There were times where I wasnt happy and we needed to renegotiate, like when I was on The Ultimate Fighter contract and they wanted me to fight Rampage [Quinton Jackson] in Japan. There was stuff like that. Sponsorship-wise, I took a hit with the Reebok deal. Im in a weird spot, though I cant bitch too much. But we all want more money for what we do.Baders contract situation adds a wrinkle to this weekend, which, to be frank, initially lacked a little significance.Although Nogueira (22-7) looked good in a first-round knockout over Patrick Cummins in May, a win over the Brazilian would do almost nothing for Baders stock in the 205-pound division. Theres also the fact hes already beat him once. The two met in 2010, with Bader taking a unanimous decision.If you look at it as far as a sequence of who Ive fought, this matchup might not make the most sense, Bader said. But when youre in training camp, every fight feels super important. To get where I want to go, I have to win. I do already have a win over him, and hes a little older now, but hes still a crafty, dangerous veteran.Fighting out of Arizona, Bader says he felt extremely relaxed during his last fight, a second-round knockout over Ilir Latifi in September. Between 2013 and 2015, Bader won five decisions in a row, which he says actually put an enormous amount of pressure on him to keep the streak going.He says he took very few risks because of that, and that showed a little in a quick knockout loss to Anthony Johnson in January. Now, Bader says hes taking chances and looking for knockouts, which would probably lead him to a title shot faster than a long streak of decisions anyway.Its one of those things, I won five fights in a row and didnt get a title shot, Bader said. Im not entirely focused on going out there and getting the win, per se. 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Step aside, LeBron.Team president Pat Riley says Hall of Fame inductee Shaquille ONeal stands as the most significant prize the?Miami Heat?have landed during his 21-year tenure with the team.?Ill say this, and I mean this, Riley told the South Florida Sun Sentinel recently. Shaqs acquisition was bigger than any acquisition that we ever made, including the Big Three.Alonzo Mourning arrived in Miami with Riley in 1995 and helped redirect the fortunes of a floundering expansion franchise.A generation passed before the Heat played in four straight NBA Finals from 2011 to 2014 with the superteam of?LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade, winning two titles.But it was ONeal -- not James, not Bosh, not Wade, not Mourning -- who gave the Heat the biggest piece of the puzzle, Riley said.Zo was big, but getting Shaquille changedd everything for our franchise, Riley said, according to the Sun Sentinel.ddddddddddddONeal came to the Heat in a July 2004 trade that sent Lamar Odom, Caron Butler, Brian Grant and a first-round draft pick to the?Los Angeles Lakers.?ONeal and Wade went on to lead Miami on a short-lived run in which they captured the 2006 NBA Finals in six games over the?Dallas Mavericks.ONeal, along with Allen Iverson, highlights a 10-member class that will be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Friday in Springfield, Massachusetts.The seminal moment to really make us really, really legitimate, Riley said of the ONeal deal. He turned?our franchise around. He gave us real legitimacy. ' ' '