A Miami Heat Blog
Update (7/5/17): Each of the Golden State Warriors’ critical free agents this summer has agreed to return. Stephen Curry will sign the full 5-year, $201M designated player max contract for which he qualifies. Andre Iguodala will sign a guaranteed three-year, $48M contract....
Today’s announcement of the All-NBA teams for the 2016-17 season had much more far-reaching implications than in years past, thanks to new “Designated Veteran Player” rules in the new Collective Bargaining Agreement that reward certain players with higher maximum salaries than to...
The Miami Heat pulled off perhaps the greatest turnaround in NBA history this past season, under perhaps the most challenging of circumstances. After losing Dwyane Wade to free agency and Chris Bosh to a possible career-ending medical condition, it was always going...
The Miami Heat has consciously maneuvered around various – sometimes intricate, sometimes transparent and highly-publicized – salary cap issues over the past couple of seasons with one specific goal in mind: to maximize its flexibility in free agency. The summer of 2017...
The NBA salary cap has experienced staggering growth in recent seasons. The cap jumped from $58.7 million in 2013-14, to $63.1 million in 2014-15, to $70.0 million in 2015-16. That’s a near 20% growth in just two years. But it’s nothing compared...
“We’re dealing with that word that you hate to use — that we have to rebuild. But we will rebuild. Quick. I’m not going to hang around here for three or four years selling this kind of song to people in Miami....
Note: I humbly believe there to be a mistake in the drafting of the new CBA that pertains to the topics discussed herein. I believe Article XXII, Section 11(g) should reference Article II, Section 3(n), rather than Article II, Section 3(l). I make...
The NBA salary cap has experienced staggering growth in recent seasons. The cap jumped from $58.7 million in 2013-14, to $63.1 million in 2014-15, to $70.0 million in 2015-16. That’s a near 20 percent growth in just two years. But it’s nothing...
Update (04/16/17): “We have not been able to win with him on the court at this time. I think the direction with our team is that he’s a player who would be better off somewhere else, using his talent somewhere where he...
Update (3/2/17): The Utah Jazz lost a potentially significant opportunity to ease its future cap sheets when it couldn’t come to agreement with George Hill on a renegotiation and extension by the Mar. 1, 2017 deadline, one that could’ve paid out up...
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