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ORLANDO -- The Chicago Bulls front office is not planning on a face-to-face meeting with Heat?star Dwyane Wade in New York City as of now, a league source told ESPN, despite the fact that Wade met with the Denver Nuggets and Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday.The Vertical reported Wednesday that the Bulls postponed a meeting with Wade because of flight delay issues but that they were calling teams to unload contracts, trying to create space to sign him.Heat?owner Micky Arison met with Wade in New York on Wednesday afternoon. A league source told ESPN that Arison emerged from the meeting without a resolution or an agreement in place. Arison later posted a photo from a cruise ship to his social media accounts and indicated he was headed to Europe.It was Arison, the Carnival Cruise Line magnate, who stepped in during acrimonious negotiations between Wade and team president Pat Riley to broker the one-year, $20 million deal Wade signed last summer.The Nuggets have offered Wade a two-year deal worth north of $50 million, league sources told ESPN.Wade also met with Bucks owner Marc Lasry. Sources say Wade is said to be a big fan of Bucks swingman Khris Middleton after they worked out together last summer.This isnt the first time Wade, a Chicago native, and the Bulls have been linked in free-agency speculation. In the summer of 2010, some within the Bulls organization believed that both Wade and fellow free agent Chris Bosh were going to sign to play in Chicago after taking a visit to the city and talking with some Bulls players. Ultimately, Wade and Bosh decided to team with LeBron James and form a super team in Miami that would go on to win two NBA championships.Having lost out on Wade once before in free agency, some within the Bulls organization are concerned that Wade could be using Chicago as free-agency leverage to bring Miamis offer up, sources told ESPN. But the chatter among league sources at the Orlando Summer League remains that Wade will once again sign in Miami when all is said and done.After dealing Derrick Rose to the New York Knicks last week, Bulls GM Gar Forman acknowledged that Chicagos window for championship contention had closed and that his team needed to get younger and more athletic.The Bulls changed course by signing veteran point guard Rajon Rondo on Sunday and would significantly veer away from that message by adding Wade. 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Right now its looking like Im coming back. Thats what I know thus far. Im not thinking that far ahead yet.McDowell is expected to be the headliner of the Spartans defensive line, a group that lost its three other starters after the 2015 season. He made 13 tackles for loss and 4.5 sacks during his first season as a full-time starter last year.Head coach Mark Dantonio said McDowell has impressed with raw talent during his first two seasons on campus, but thee former five-star recruit is now starting to mature mentally heading into this fall.ddddddddddddIve seen him grow, Dantonio said Monday at Michigan States media day. You hope to get to that point where you need to play like a first-team All-American. He can and he should. I believe he will.McDowell has played mostly defensive tackle to this point in this career, but the Spartans plan to move him around to different spots this fall to take advantage of his pass rush abilities.Former defensive end Shilique Calhoun -- a third round pick of the Oakland Raiders this spring and a mentor of McDowells -- returned for his final season of eligibility. McDowell didnt say if Calhouns decision to return had any impact on the way hes approaching the impending decision.I know what I could possibly do. Im just going to go out there and give it best and whatevers next is next, McDowell said. I really dont know. Ill probably be back. Everythings gotta go right. I need everything to go right. ' ' '