Dwyane Wade joins the Chicago Bulls

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I guess they are happy with being a low seed with no chance to win a championship.
 
2 years 47 million for a shooting guard when they're already paying another shooting guard 92 million over 5 years.

Good for the Heat for dumping his bitch ass tho. Now they can grab Westbrook and Steven Adams in the 2017 Thunder fire sale
 
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Wade is following in LeBron's footsteps. He's coming home to bring Chicago a championship.

LOLz
 
Miami's loss. They gave Shaq and Lebron big paydays and Wade compromised. Now Wade's older and the star of the team, deserves respect which would be shown via a contract that he wants. But no, they give another star, Whiteside, a huge contract and Wade takes less money once again. So I don't think this is about money, but what that contract represents. 13 years and not being compensated for his loyalty. Good riddance. Butler moves to the 3 and Bulls make the playoffs, while Heat has a weak backcourt and a big man who can't take over with scoring.
 
Miami probably happy about this. Lots of money to reload with younger FA talent.
 
He can train youngsters like Kevin Garnnet is doing.
 
Miami's loss. They gave Shaq and Lebron big paydays and Wade compromised. Now Wade's older and the star of the team, deserves respect which would be shown via a contract that he wants. But no, they give another star, Whiteside, a huge contract and Wade takes less money once again. So I don't think this is about money, but what that contract represents. 13 years and not being compensated for his loyalty. Good riddance. Butler moves to the 3 and Bulls make the playoffs, while Heat has a weak backcourt and a big man who can't take over with scoring.

Miami attempted to compensate Wade by offering to make him one of the 10 highest paid players (career) in NBA history
 
Miami's loss. They gave Shaq and Lebron big paydays and Wade compromised. Now Wade's older and the star of the team, deserves respect which would be shown via a contract that he wants. But no, they give another star, Whiteside, a huge contract and Wade takes less money once again. So I don't think this is about money, but what that contract represents. 13 years and not being compensated for his loyalty. Good riddance. Butler moves to the 3 and Bulls make the playoffs, while Heat has a weak backcourt and a big man who can't take over with scoring.

why the hell is Snaq being brought up? He was traded for not signed and he was traded away before he became a free agent.

Wad also only took a whopping .5 million less than Bern and Bish did in 2010 and they all took discounts.
 
why the hell is Snaq being brought up? He was traded for not signed and he was traded away before he became a free agent.

Wad also only took a whopping .5 million less than Bern and Bish did in 2010 and they all took discounts.

Shaq signed a 5-year 100 mil deal with Miami in 2005. Wade, in his 13 years with the Heat, was never the highest paid player of any version of the MH. He now wanted the extra 5 and didn't get it. He's made close 160 mil in salaries alone in those years. You think the 5 was because he really needed the money?
 
Shaq signed a 5-year 100 mil deal with Miami in 2005. Wade, in his 13 years with the Heat, was never the highest paid player of any version of the MH. He now wanted the extra 5 and didn't get it. He's made close 160 mil in salaries alone in those years. You think the 5 was because he really needed the money?

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- Wade chose to take slightly less in 2010 in order to make the Big 3 happen

- Wade got screwed out of $millions in 2014 first by LeBitch then by Bosh. Miami didn't induce Wade to opt out of his $20+/yr deal

- Miami gave Wade a deal above market value in 2015

- Miami just offered Wade all of their available capspace

- Wade is the highest paid player in Miami Heat history

- Miami offered to make Wade one of the 10 highest paid players in NBA history
 
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- Wade chose to take slightly less in 2010 in order to make the Big 3 happen

- Wade got screwed out of $millions in 2014 first by LeBitch then by Bosh. Miami didn't induce Wade to opt out of his $20+/yr deal

- Miami gave Wade a deal above market value in 2015

- Miami just offered Wade all of their available capspace

- Wade is the highest paid player in Miami Heat history

- Miami offered to make Wade one of the 10 highest paid players in NBA history
This doesn't apply to what I said. You have to opt out if you're a great player. Whiteside was offered another max deal by Dallas, so Miami chose to give Whiteside the 4-year max. This led to Wade once again not being the highest paid player in Heat because of Bosh's contract. Giving Wade what he wanted would've been symbolic, remembering what he has done and can still do. Yet Miami hesitated, Wade was disappointed and left.
 
This doesn't apply to what I said. You have to opt out if you're a great player. Whiteside was offered another max deal by Dallas, so Miami chose to give Whiteside the 4-year max. This led to Wade once again not being the highest paid player in Heat because of Bosh's contract. Giving Wade what he wanted would've been symbolic, remembering what he has done and can still do. Yet Miami hesitated, Wade was disappointed and left.

So Miami should've let the 2nd most sought-after FA just walk so that they could give Wade a few extra $million?

Or should they have given up either Winslow or Richardson or Dragic for free in order to move McFlop so that they could get those additional $millions there?

Because those were literally the only two options Miami had
 
they give another star, Whiteside.

lol @ another star.


lol @ putting whiteside anywhere near star status or anywhere near numero tres.


sheeeeet. miami shit the bed. hard. lotto LOOMs!!!
 
lol @ another star.


lol @ putting whiteside anywhere near star status or anywhere near numero tres.


sheeeeet. miami shit the bed. hard. lotto LOOMs!!!
i agree, he's not as good as many believe. Often does a Howard.
 
So Miami should've let the 2nd most sought-after FA just walk so that they could give Wade a few extra $million?

Or should they have given up either Winslow or Richardson or Dragic for free in order to move McFlop so that they could get those additional $millions there?

Because those were literally the only two options Miami had
Whiteside isn't the 2nd most sought after FA, but that doesn't matter. It's not about circumstances or money, but where Heat's priorities are. Wade is the best player of that team and has stayed there the longest, yet he was never the highest paid. Not when circumstances arose, not before that and not after that. Whiteside can't carry a team and these are his prime years. Wade still plays at an all-star level and can take over when the going gets tough. The Bulls won here and the Heat brass looks like shit.
 
Getting real tired of repeating the same facts to misinformed non-Heat basketball fans. So I'll post some excerpts from a few articles that anyone can read if they're interested in actually becoming informed on the topic

First is from Dan LeBatard, local guy with as many Heat connections and insight into the inner workings of the team as any journalist out there:

LeBron James emerging as a home-wrecker in Heat-Wade marriage

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So, for the second time in two years, and the only times in the relationship, Miami and Wade were divided, in public and private. This isn’t how this organization conducts business, but Wade has spent two offseasons throwing dirty laundry in the streets because of fractured trust, though at least this year he didn’t sing Rihanna’s Bitch Better Have My Money with his son on Snapchat. No Heat player has ever done this, never mind a star. Bargaining? Bluffing? Business? This isn’t how discounted Dirk Nowitzki or Tim Duncan work with management they trust. James and Wade are about player empowerment, and they certainly aren’t obligated to help billionaires with discounts, but why the sudden and public disconnect after all these years? Could it be about who owes whom in this relationship?

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What’s odd, though, is that Wade is asking a management he suddenly mistrusts to make him whole on millions that James, Bosh and Wade’s own agent, Henry Thomas, helped cost him. He has never once blamed them publicly, but his agent has a conflict of interests in representing Bosh and Wade in a capped sport, a conflict of interests the Heat liked just fine when it delivered both of them to Miami to begin The Big 3. But here’s where it became problematic:

When James cost Wade $10 million by leaving — Wade had opted out of a $42 million deal to create max room for James, only to get stuck with a $32 million deal when James bolted — a frenzy started. Houston swooped in to steal Bosh. According to three sources, the Heat was informed that Bosh was leaving for Houston for $88 million. Miami offered about $7 million more than that. Nope. Had to be the max — $118 million. Nothing less than the max would keep Bosh in Miami. The Heat wanted to pay Bosh and Wade equally — $18 million a year — and protect future flexibility. Nope. Bosh gets the max or he’s gone. And that’s how Thomas got one client his money in Miami while the other one, the older one, now fights for more dollars from a team that has already offered him all of its remaining cap space. Wade doesn’t blame James or Bosh or his agent publicly, but he sure as hell seems to blame the Heat.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/dan-le-batard/article87862542.html#storylink=cpy


Second article is from Chris Mannix at The Vertical. He does national coverage out of California I believe, also writes for Sports Illustrated and is an NBA insider for NBC. So a pretty objective outside perspective on the ordeal in Miami:

The one factor that led to the divorce of Dwyane Wade and Pat Riley

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So why go? Without minimizing the money – and no matter how much a player has made, a million or two is significant – it's simple: pride. Wade sought a three-year deal this summer. Miami – and everyone else – wanted to give him only two.

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It didn't matter. Chicago didn't have to give Wade a third year. Denver and Milwaukee didn't, either. Miami did.

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Miami owed Wade … right? Depends on who you ask. Golden parachutes get teams into trouble. Ask the Lakers. Even in this Monopoly money era, committing $20 million to Wade in a third season – or any more than $20 million per for the next two – is risky. Multiple teams researching Wade believed, optimistically, that getting 50-60 games a season out of him was what they should expect.

Riley has an obligation to Wade; he's admitted as much. But he has a larger duty to the Heat. Miami's core is enviable. Dragic and the oh-please-be-healthy Bosh are the cornerstones; Justise Winslow is a rising wing player. Riley is looking at a talent-rich free-agent class next summer. One star – hey, Russell Westbrook – maybe two, and Riley's Heat will really give James something to worry about.

Riley wanted Wade to be a part of it. Of course he did. He's a ticket seller. An icon. The greatest player in franchise history. But there was a line, and Riley was as unwilling to move it as Wade was to stand behind it. It will be strange to see Wade in a different uniform next season. But it's not hard to understand why he is.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/the-on...e-of-dwyane-wade-and-pat-riley-051436352.html
 
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We easily have the worst front office in the league. Everything GarPax have done since the Rose trade has made no sense. I would be higher on the Wade signing if we didn't sign Rondo since we now have three guys (Wade, Rondo and Butler) who need the ball to be effective. Plus we have no three point shooting now with Dunleavy gone. Still finding it hard to believe in Mirotic and McDermott. I was totally fine with a rebuild since our title window is all but closed at this point.
 
2 years 47 million for a shooting guard when they're already paying another shooting guard 92 million over 5 years.

Good for the Heat for dumping his bitch ass tho. Now they can grab Westbrook and Steven Adams in the 2017 Thunder fire sale
Butler will move to small forward, which sort of makes sense given he's a good rebounder and overall defender.

Still, Paying a 34 year old on the downside of his career doesn't make sense at all.
 
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