The 2017 NBA Trade Deadline was a snoozer. For days, there was speculation about whether Danny Ainge and the Boston Celtics would open up their treasure cove of assets in an attempt to land Jimmy Butler or Paul George. In reality, the biggest trade we saw was P.J. Tucker head to the Toronto Raptors.
Nowhere did the universal boredom ring more true than in South Florida, though. The Miami Heat sat on the sidelines as a lot of other teams bolstered their rosters. It wasn’t for lack of want, it was simply that the Heat are currently extremely asset poor.