Dwyane Wade’s last dance with all the Heat won’t help them escape the midsection of the NBA. Judging by what is coming back to the roll up, neither will the season of the post-Wade era.
Miami has been hungry for celebrity power in the last couple of years, sending just two agents to the All-Star Game over the past 3 seasons–one as an injury replacement (Goran Dragic), the other on a special invitation in the commissioner (Wade). Even though Josh Richardson, Justise Winslow and Bam Adebayo have all taken steps ahead this year, none has always displayed elite potential.
This group has too much talent to base out, and that kind of rebuild does not interest team president Pat Riley anyway. The Heat have been loose with their draft picks during his tenure, thus the reason they are outside a future first and four of their next five second-rounders.
But when the draft doesn’t deliver a star, it is difficult to tell which route this franchise may take. There is no true spending cash until 2020, and commerce processors come few and far between, provided how many bloated contracts are on the books.
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