For Competitors Only .:. The Official 2017 Miami Heat Off-Season Thread

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Primetime21 said:
Prototypical stretch 4 in todays NBA. I dont like him but I can see why they might be interested. What you think about the other 7 names?
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He's missed 71 games over the last 3 years and he isn't even some knockdown shooter. It'd be a waste of a roster spot in my opinion.
 
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How would we get Lilliard; Wiggins, Jimmy, or PG? Maybe the Wolves would trade Drew to us for a package around Whiteside? I can't see a Jimmy trade unless we luck into a top 3 pick.
 
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Captain_Crunch said:
How would we get Lilliard; Wiggins, Jimmy, or PG? Maybe the Wolves would trade Drew to us for a package around Whiteside? I can't see a Jimmy trade unless we luck into a top 3 pick.
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If the league does the honorable thing and rigs this lottery for us basically any one of those guys becomes attainable. I imagine the package for Wiggins would look something like this + a pick NBA Trade Machine - ESPN

I'm not really enamored with the idea of trading for Jimmy. Besides the fact we'd have to gut the roster to get him, to me he's not a 1A talent on a contending team. Prince George yes, Lillard maybe (and he's another one we'd basically have to gut the roster for because Portland has no incentive to deal him). Wiggins he's still so young the sky is basically the limit.
 
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Heat’s Shane Battier surprises 21 Miami Central sophomores with college scholarships

Shane Battier has worn a bunch of terrible outfits and made a fool of himself singing many times at his annual karaoke events to raise money for scholarships for underserved youth.

Days like Thursday are why he does it.

The former Miami Heat forward who was part of the franchise’s last two NBA championships and now serves as a member of the front office in charge of analytics surprised 21 high school sophomores at Miami Central High with fully paid four-year college scholarships. The scholarships require the students graduate high school with at least a 2.5 GPA, stay out of trouble and participate in his Battier’s new GUIDE program, which assigns students to college mentors they must meet with twice a month.

Meeting the recipients for the first time Thursday made Battier, 38, quite emotional. When he left the students behind to conduct interviews, tears began streaming down his cheeks as he opened up about the experience.

“They’ve been told ‘no’ so many times. For someone to say ‘Yes, you have a real chance’... it means a lot to me,” said Battier, who along with his wife, Heidi, selected the students off 30-second video submissions they sent in talking about themselves and why they wanted a scholarship.


There were 40 applicants in all according to a spokesman for Miami’s Take Stock in Children Foundation, which teammed up with Battier’s Take Charge Foundation to financially back the scholarships.

“There are so many kids in our community that just need a chance,” Battier continued. “I wish we could give them all scholarships. We’re going to fight like heck to grow this program. And we think it’s just a start. It’s a small start. But it’s an important start.”

Rose Jean-Paul, one of the 21 scholarship recipients, thought she was in trouble when school officials first gathered the group of winners and told them to report to the principal’s office.

“I was scared at first, because I saw some kids I hadn’t seen before. I said ‘Oh my god why am I here?’ But as soon as I saw Shane I screamed ‘We got the scholarship!” said Jean-Paul, who has a 3.8 weighted GPA and would like to attend Florida State University, the University of Central Florida or the University of Florida.

“Without this I probably would have gone to college, but had to fight for a bunch of little scholarships here and there to pay as much of it as I could,” she continued. “This makes it so much easier. We don’t want student loans. Those two words we try to stay away from.”

Battier’s Take Charge foundation has awarded scholarships to high school students in the past to students from Miami, Houston and Detroit, but this new GUIDE program is intended to help students starting in their sophomore year.

Heat’s Shane Battier surprises 21 Miami Central sophomores with college scholarships
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In aftermath of Wade/Bosh, Heat makes case to free agents

Remember when some pundits wondered whether the Heat’s messy breakup with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh would hurt the organization in free agency in the future?

That’s no longer the slightest concern. Among the reasons:

• The organization has mended its relationship with Bosh in recent weeks, with direct contact between Bosh and the top of the organization, in advance of his impending release and removal of his salary from Miami’s cap.

What’s more, Wade has never bashed the Heat publicly and is open to considering a return at some point in his career, according to an associate.

• This season offered several compelling reasons why the Heat will remain attractive to players despite the dissolution of the Big Three: from the organization demonstrating it’s perhaps the best place in the NBA for players to salvage or jump-start their careers – as James Johnson and Dion Waiters and Wayne Ellington and others showed - to the players’ effusive expression of appreciation for this coaching and training staff, to little things like Derrick Williams publicly thanking team president Pat Riley for being a man of his word and releasing him.
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And this also shouldn’t be glossed over: Erik Spoelstra and this coaching staff, as much as ever this season, have become another reason for players to want to come here..

That Spoelstra should be considered an incentive to play in Miami was made clear during conversations with multiple players in the final two months of the season.

When I asked James Johnson why he said this has been the most enjoyable experience of his career, he said: “Just the consistency you see from the coach. I've never had that before ever. When you have consistency like that, it makes it easier to play for him, it makes it easier to want to win for him and makes it easier to build trust level.
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Forward Okaro White offered this, unsolicited: “Coach Spo, he wants to give you confidence. If he sees you lagging a little bit of confidence, the thing with him is ‘take a deep breath, be you. It's fine when you be you.’ He has the trust in me that I will always give my best, always play hard. One of the games, I think it was Toronto, I was a little down on myself. He's like: 'Relax.' I said, 'I'm not helping the team.' He said 'every time you step on the court, you play your hardest. That's all we can ask for.’

And Ellington, late in the season, offered this response to a question in which Spoelstra wasn’t even mentioned: “Coach Spo -- that's what keeps my engine going. He's been great since the beginning. From when I first stepped on the court, he looked at me and said, 'I want you to get up as many threes as you can.' You hear that and you're like, ‘Oh. All right.’

“Teams emphasize winning but it's a little different here. It's the standard. It's the culture. It's the lifestyle. You've got winning organizations and you have losing organizations. This is a winning organization that breeds champions and competitors.”
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Bosh is ready to move on and is no longer angry with the Heat, an NBA-employed friend said. Whether there’s ever a reunion or not, Wade and the Heat will be fine, with everybody saying the right things in recent months.

Players know they get better here and given everything they need to be successful. And this staff earns high marks with players, publicly and privately, reinforcing why Miami remains an appealing destination.

Ultimately, so much about free agency comes down to money. But fallout over the Big Three affecting that? That’s no longer any concern.
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In aftermath of Wade/Bosh, Heat makes case to free agents
 
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HiphopRelated said:
Draft Express has us taking Justin Jackson, but that's meh pick, I'd rather roll the dice on Terrance Ferguson.

Drafting "solid" players won't get us anywhere. Where we're drafting, it's the boom or bust types to take a chance on
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I was watching highlights and reading up on him and I agree if we keep this pick he should be the guy. Not bad breh :ehh:
 
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