A Miami Heat Blog
The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association announced last week that they have reached agreement on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. If the deal is ratified by both sides, which is a formality, the league will be assured of labor peace...
When the NBA’s new collective bargaining agreement becomes official, benefits should abound for both players and teams. Minimum salaries, rookie-scale contracts, the mid-level exception, the bi-annual exceptions, and maximum salaries are all increasing, which should placate most players. Various rules will be...
The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association jointly announced Wednesday that they have reached a tentative deal on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), pending ratification by both team owners and the league’s players. In order to give both sides enough...
Update (12/15/16): The Houston Rockets apparently never actually signed Donatas Motiejunas. But whether they did or did not sign him is irrelevant. In both cases, the Rockets could have conditioned the contract (in a case where they didn’t sign him, as a condition...
Update (10/22/16): The Heat has chosen to waive Briante Weber and Beno Udrih, and keep Rodney McGruder. The Heat’s backup point guard duties effectively therefore fall to Tyler Johnson. The final 15-player roster is as follows: Goran Dragic, Tyler Johnson, Josh Richardson, Wayne...
Pat Riley, in a meeting with reporters, said that Chris Bosh’s career with the Miami Heat “is probably over” and that the team is “not working toward his return.” Bosh, an 11-time All-Star, failed his preseason physical last week. The Heat had...
Pat Riley wasn’t expecting to use the Miami Heat’s $2.898 million mid-level exception for room teams this summer. “As far as the $2.9 million room exception, we’re going to hold on to that,” Riley said on July 16. “I don’t think we’re...
Two months ago, the Oklahoma City Thunder were positioned to perhaps consider themselves the best team in the NBA. They had pushed the defending champion and all-time regular season winning percentage record-holding Golden State Warriors to brink of elimination in the Western...
Heading into the 2016-17 NBA season, extensions for veteran players had all but vanished for several years — the result of changes to the league’s Collective Bargaining Agreement that make it more beneficial for players to finish out their existing contracts and...
The following post attempts to parse through the eloquent words of Pat Riley, delivered at his press conference on Saturday, to arrive at their true meaning. Things are not always necessarily what they seem. During a press conference on Saturday to discuss the state...
