The New Year is here, and later this year, the Miami Heat will be entering what will be one of the most important free agency summers in team history. Kevin Durant is available and, while we should never count Pat Riley out, the odds are not in Miami’s favor.
Rather, the Heat will need to make a decision on impending free agents Dwyane Wade and Hassan Whiteside.
Do the Heat keep paying the aging Wade?
(Probably. Yeah.)
What about Whiteside? The headstrong strong man center is putting up monster numbers and averaging a double-double this season, but he’s a big center who is best equipped in half court offenses and defenses.