Hot Hot Hoops · Apr 7, 2019
Heat waive Rodney McGruder
Rodney McGruder played 22 minutes of the Miami Heat’s overtime loss to the Toronto Raptors earlier today. But those will be his final minutes of the season, at least in a Heat uniform.
Miami Heat fan and salary cap expert Albert Nahmad wrote that the move was an attempt to move under the luxury tax.
Heat would drop below the luxury tax if Rodney McGruder’s $1.5M salary gets claimed off waivers (by one of 16 teams that can). A claiming team would get his Early Bird rights, and could make him RFA with a $3.0M qualifying offer (which Heat weren’t going to give anyway).
