This isn’t the team Hassan Whiteside envisioned when he announced his return to the Heat on Snapchat, turned up Will Smith’s “Miami” and walked out his apartment door on the morning of July 1.
Five days later, when Dwyane Wade announced his departure from the city where he spent his first 13 seasons, Whiteside’s party in the city where the heat is on record-scratched into confused Mr. Krabs.
Entering training camp, the news got worse for Heat faithful who had come to terms with life sans LeBron James, so long as it still featured two of the Big Three that captured a pair of NBA titles in four straight trips to the Finals.