<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Miami HEAT President Pat Riley's statement on Dwyane Wade & Udonis Haslem - <a href="http://t.co/5vX7Zski5x">http://t.co/5vX7Zski5x</a></p>— Miami HEAT (@MiamiHEAT) <a href="https://twitter.com/MiamiHEAT/statuses/482978544788570112">June 28, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Wade wouldn't give up a $42 million over 2 years for a $50 million contract over 5. Gotta be more than that. My guess is $13 million over 5, or $75 million with raises.
I wouldn't past Riley to guarantee him that lost money after his contract with an honorary front office position in Miami. Despite that not being a valid contract, Wade would most likely take Riley's word.
With Lebron at 19, Bosh at 15, and Wade at 13 that leaves 8 mil for Haslem and whoever they would try and bring in. Think that's enough for Lowry? I don't.
Well sure, but he's going to command $10 million, which means Bosh and especially Wade have to take BIG paycuts.
They are probably looking at adding someone like Pau Gasol to play center and role players. Napier and Cole or Chalmers at the point.
Less than that, I think. Wade, Bosh and Bron all taking $15 million would leave the Heat with ~$10.5 million with Cole and Haslem making $2 million a piece. If Lebron takes the max/near-max of $20 million then you're looking at MLE money. In that case, it's more liable to save the owner luxury tax money than add a free agent worth the pay cuts.
Gortat is good, but he's not an elite center. His primary purpose will be to allow Bosh to move back to the 4, and LeBron to the 3.
I don't know about that, Wade will be increasingly worthless, Bosh is pretty much defense only at this point, Gortat hasn't been exactly the picture of health in his career and the rest of the roster will be minimum contracts....I think that's a little bit much to ask from Lebron. They might win the East because it's a joke, but I think teams in the West put them down without too much trouble.
Agreed. ~ 2M for Haslem and then ~6M for their "key free agent?" Doubt any of the top FAs will take that cut.
Wouldn't they have bird rights on Wade, Bosh and Lebron? Why not re-sign the Big 3 ( or Lebron and two halves at this point) after signing Lowry and Gortat off the street?
There is a difference between starting salary vs. average salary. Wade and Bosh (like every other free agent signed with Bird Rights) is eligible for 7.5% annual raises. For a 5 year, $75M contract-- i.e., average salary of $15M-- a contract can start at roughly $13M per year. So, lets say Lebron makes $20M for year 1, Wade and Bosh each takes $13M. Haslem, Cole and Napier together will make roughly $5M. 5 empty roster charges is roughly $2.5M. This is a total of $53.5M. About $9-10M below the projected salary cap number.
Gortat is looking around $10-12mil/yr. Heat can't afford him. He isn't young and this is his last big contract. He's not going to give discount in order to win a title.
The Rockets did that deal with Barkley. Just don't do a Joe Smith type contract on a napkin and there is nothing the league can do to stop it.
