Wade 3:16 The Last Dance. Official Miami Heat 2018-19 Season Thread

[Draje]

Wizards having a fire sale.

If they willing to move porter, maybe they willing to move Beal since Wall is untradeable

 

[intruder]

Wizards having a fire sale.

If they willing to move porter, maybe they willing to move Beal since Wall is untradeable

According to (i believe) Woj, they view Beal as the last piece to hold onto and build around.

Besides i dont think we have the assets they'd want for Beal. Noone is dying to get Dion, JJ or Hassan off our hands...But i'm hopeful...

 

[intruder]

Wizards having a fire sale.

If they willing to move porter, maybe they willing to move Beal since Wall is untradeable

For every trade idea for a player (say) X I think of make sure I ask myself the following

• What's player X's value in the NBA? What would others give up for him, etc
• What's player X's value to the team he's currently on? Is he thir best player, etc
• Why would said team wanna get rid of player X? He wants a trade, or beefing with mgmt etc
• What do we have that they would want for player X? Player? PlayerS? Which players? Our best? Our young talent? Picks? How many?
• Would that leave us with enough talent to build around player X? Even LeBron, Wade and Bosh needed decent players around them
• Would player X be happy with the pieces we have left after gutting the team to get him enough to resign with us?

Players in the NBA are smart nowadays. They dont want their new team to tear down everything for them and next thing you know they're there with no talent around them to play with and no assets to acquire talent

 

[intruder]

Welp... the frenzy is over with. The team is what it is for the foreseeable future.

Now that the fukkery is out the way, lets make sure Wade Dances his way into the playoffs for his last dance.

 

[intruder]

So i guess there may be other financial incentives for Olynyk's reduced minutes

Heat: C+

Miami has positioned itself to duck the tax this season by getting rid of both Ellington and Johnson, as ESPN.com's Kevin Pelton wrote:

"While this deal doesn't quite get the Heat out of the tax, they're close. If Kelly Olynyk indeed misses out on a $1 million incentive bonus for playing 1,700 minutes, as noted by ESPN's Bobby Marks, dealing Rodney McGruder before the deadline would probably be enough to allow Miami to avoid the tax altogether.

"The Heat also reduce their 2019-20 payroll. Waiving Anderson would save Miami about $3.6 million in 2019-20 salary. Using the stretch provision on Anderson's contract would save an additional $10 million or so, likely enough to enable the Heat to get out of the tax even if Goran Dragic ($19.2 million) and Hassan Whiteside ($27.1 million) both pick up player options as expected. (A stretch would come at the cost of a $5 million cap hit on the books through 2021-22, by which point the Heat can be players in free agency again.)"

Teams cannot do victory laps for maybe, possibly, potentially rendering their nightmarishly overpaid roster less overpaid. But it has become clear in recent weeks that neither Ellington nor McGruder factored into their larger plans.

As far as the Heat's situation goes, escaping the tax without forking over a first-round pick would be worth a pat on the back. At the same time, they did ship out their starting 2-guard. So...*shrugs*.

 

[Draje]

Did we even get under the tax

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

Did we even get under the tax

I think just barely

 

[HiphopRelated]

We had no reason to sign Ellington. This FO is passed stupid. That signing put us over the tax. We got rid of him and STILL over the tax

 

[intruder]

Did we even get under the tax

We had no reason to sign Ellington. This FO is passed stupid. That signing put us over the tax. We got rid of him and STILL over the tax

We did not get under the tax.

To get under it we would need to somehow ditch Mcgruder and Kelly Olynyk will have to miss the incentives that give them that million-dollar bonus. See my post before this one.


Re-signing Ellington got us into the tax but extending Winslow made sure that we were staying in the tax regardless of Ellington being here or not

 

[Sohh_lifted]

they will buy out ryan anderson before the end of the league year and thus getting out of the luxury.

 

[Makavalli]

Welp this is the squad so when drag gets back we can still have winslow play point and mcgruder back at the 3 til DJJ returns or give spot minutes to JJ there. Hope drag aint too rusty coming back

 

[Green Ranger]

Wonder since Utah actually had interest in Dragic I wonder if that is a deal that happen this offseason
Hopefully Winslow just stay at the point I’m just tired of jacking him around he went from having to bang with bigs in the post to being back on the perimeter

Welp this is the squad so when drag gets back we can still have winslow play point and mcgruder back at the 3 til DJJ returns or give spot minutes to JJ there. Hope drag aint too rusty coming back

 

[Da_Eggman]

I hope Wayne goes to Okc

 

[McPiff]

We did not get under the tax.

To get under it we would need to somehow ditch Mcgruder and Kelly Olynyk will have to miss the incentives that give them that million-dollar bonus. See my post before this one.


Re-signing Ellington got us into the tax but extending Winslow made sure that we were staying in the tax regardless of Ellington being here or not

this season is stressful.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]