Dwyane Wade dance with all the Heat will not help them escape the NBA’s midsection. Neither will the era’s season.
Miami has been hungry for star power in the last couple of decades, sending just two agents to the All-Star Game within the previous 3 seasons–just as an injury replacement (Goran Dragic), another on a special invitation in the commissioner (Wade). Even though Josh Richardson, Justise Winslow and Bam Adebayo have all taken steps forward this year, none has always displayed elite possible.
This class has too much ability to bottom out, and that type of rebuild does not interest team president Pat Riley anyway. The Heat are loose with their draft picks during his tenure, thus the reason they’re out a future and four of their next five second-rounders.
But when the draft doesn’t deliver a star, it’s difficult to tell which route this franchise can take. There’s no true spending cash until 2020, and commerce chips come few and far between, given how many bloated contracts are on the books.
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