It isn't a mess that Pat Riley's Miami Heat finds itself in as NBA free agency nears But it is a no-man's land, a sort of stuck-in-the-middle purgatory that the Godfather must find a way to escape.
Can he? The heft of his resume tells us yes, that the 73-year-old club president has a last hurrah in him. But will he? That's unknowable. We only know with near certainty that it won't be now, because the hamstrung Heat is a summer spectator to the NBA party.
Miami had no selections in Thursday night's draft; only Toronto also had zero.