The Miami Heat have about $100 million to build a 50-win team next season, or $2 million per win. sports-reference.com Win Share(WS) measure gives a totally mechanical formula how much each player should be paid, per their contribution towards wins.
TOTAL 45 wins $91M
From the WS numbers above, last season’s starters would have been Whiteside, Dragic, T. Johnson, J. Johnson, Ellington. In real life, that unconventional lineup makes no sense, but stirs the pot for a lively debate in the Heat community.
The total from last year produced 45 wins, which surprisingly isn’t far away from the actual 42 wins in 2015-16.