I'm sorry.....who's that? I know of no team by that name...no matter how many World Series rings they've won.
I heard they even had owner who could make Bud Adams blush. Amazingly the team is invisibly 1.5 game out from first, but still dead last in attendance. It's pathetic.
Barring terrible medical prognosis, I wouldn't trade Wade for the #1 pick and filler. Wade healthy is a top 4 player, most #1 picks are not.
I've just came up with something, I believe the Heat could be trying to adapt the Florida Marlins' management strategies of slowly ripping the best talents away from the team and trading them for peanut shells and acquire neverending list of prospects and draft picks and be guaranteed Championship so many years....1997...2003...2009, even with the most apathetic set of fans I ever seen in my life. I wonder who the powers to be of Marlins made deal with it. The Heat might be trying a similar thing, franchise is barely 20 years old and has more championships over the last 20 years than Boston, New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Indiana, Utah, Phoenix, and Dallas combined. The Marlins have an equal total of World Series trophies to the Atlanta Braves, Chicago Cubs, San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Philles, New York Mets, St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Houston Astros , all combined over the last 17 years. And they have lower regular season winning percentage than every single team I just mentioned.
Did the Memphis GM switch jobs and move to Miami? If so, then this trade is not realistic, Bulls could offer less.
I know this is getting sidetracked, but being a semi-south Florida resident, it drives me nuts too. No one there cares about anything but the Dolphins. People jump on the Marlins/Heat bandwagon if they make the playoffs, that's about it. While I can't fault the Marlins' formula for success, they might boost attendance if they actually held on to guys who turned into superstars instead of trading them immediately. Superstars fill the seats here.
Wade is due $14mill this season, and then a further 2 seasons at 15 and 17 - if they think he's either going to ride the pine injured, or not quite reach his former level, then why not try and move him to go up a pick? From a marketing standpoint, #1 picks are always more marketable than #2s. For $14mill they could bring any number of combinations But if they could get a Gordon/ Deng/ Noah/ Simmons package then I'd do it. Miami gets: PG: Rose/ Banks SG: Gordon/ Cook C: Noah/ Blount PF: Marion/ Haslem/ Simmons SF: Deng/ Wright It's not a terrible lineup - plenty of scoring to be had, and plenty of peices to make a move if they feel the need. Then they're still in a position to blow it all up in 2 years and go after a big name FA, OR up the young guys with the money freed up from Blount ($7m) and Haslm ($7m). Or maybe even use those expirings to bring back a big name player in the future.
When I go to Miami and talk sports, it's 99% 'Fins and 1% anything else. A couple of years ago during the 2nd Marlins World Series run, my friend had a Marlins hat in his front seat. I knew he didn't give a care about them and I asked him about the hat. He said it was from their 1st World Series and he had just taken it out of the closet. Putting an MLB team in Miami was a big mistake. I thought it was a setback for baseball when the Marlins beat the Cleveland Indians because my friends in Cleveland lived and died with that team back then.
Another thing is these alleged fans of the Marlins will have the same attitude as Red Sox/Celtic fans or Laker fans. They think every thing about their team is so superior and so great that nothing can touch it.
Riley basically told Wade he's not going any where. So don't look 4 a trade any time soon but who know's....
D Wade is top 10 players in this league when healthy... why would you trade a top 10 player who can give you 25 pts any night AND a #2 pick (Beasley or Rose) for their #1 pick (Rose) and players like Nocioni and Sefolosha or Deng who just add more salaries Miami... Stupid rumors lol
I didn't see this earlier...and I know it's off topic again, but... What I hated at that time was my reputation as being a big Cleveland fan (all sports). During that series and afterwards many of my friends were talking trash to me, despite the fact that none of them gave a crap about the Marlins that season, much less any previous year. At last I can hold my Browns over their truly dear Dolphins, who were absolutely miserable last year and hopefully this year.
Basketball is not baseball. In baseball the impact of an individual player is limited. A superstar hitter you'd only hit once every 2-3 innings; an ace pitcher only pitches every fifth day. Hence, the Marlins model works as they cumulate large amount of raw talents and propspects in favor of large contracts and superstars. In basketball, however, one superstar player makes a huge impact on the outcome of the game because he's involved in every play on both offense and defense. Therefore, it's every unlikely to build a championship team from the cumulation of draft picks and raw talents alone. Just ask the Clippers.
Miami would have to be friggin stupid to do something like this. Whether they end up with beasley or rose it will be good.
