The Miami Heat were in a very tricky place as this offseason began, a place that got even trickier as they tried to make the Jimmy Butler acquisition work. They had a seemingly disgruntled big on their roster, he who is not to be named, while also lacking the essential cap space to sign a big-name free agent outright.
Well as it may be, those two issues not only seemingly solved themselves, but had a certain mutual synthesis about them in their execution. The Miami Heat were able to acquire Jimmy Butler by moving Josh Richardson to the Philadelphia 76ers, but after the initial deal fell through that included the Dallas Mavericks, they had to rework some things.