Dwyane Wade’s final dance with all the Heat won’t help them escape the NBA’s waist. Neither will the era’s first season.
Miami has been hungry for star power in recent decades, sending only two agents to the All-Star Game over the past three seasons–just as an injury replacement (Goran Dragic), another on a special invitation from the commissioner (Wade). Even though Josh Richardson, Justise Winslow and Bam Adebayo have all taken steps ahead this season, none has consistently displayed elite potential.
This group has too much talent to base out, which kind of rebuild does not interest team president Pat Riley anyway. The Heat are loose with their draft selections during his tenure, thus the reason they’re out a future first and four of the next five second-rounders.
But if the draft does not deliver a celebrity, it is hard to tell which path this franchise can take. There is no real spending money until 2020, and trade processors come few and far between, provided how many bloated contracts are about the books.

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