Dwyane Wade dance with the Heat will not help them escape the midsection of the NBA. Neither will this post-Wade era’s season.
Miami has been hungry for star power in recent decades, sending only two representatives to the All-Star Game over the past three seasons–just as an injury replacement (Goran Dragic), the other on a special invitation from the commissioner (Wade). Even though Josh Richardson, Justise Winslow and Bam Adebayo have all taken steps ahead this year, none has always displayed elite potential.
This class has too much talent to base out, and that kind of rebuild doesn’t interest team president Pat Riley anyway. The Heat are loose with their draft selections during his tenure, hence the reason they’re outside a future first and four of their next five second-rounders.
But when the draft doesn’t deliver a celebrity, it’s difficult to tell which route this franchise may take. There’s no real spending money until 2020, and commerce processors come few and far between, given how many bloated contracts are about the books.
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