The Miami Heat were in the thick of the Russell Westbrook talks. They were seemingly on the cusp of making the deal happen.
Then, on Thursday night, the news came down. Russell Westbrook had been traded to the Houston Rockets for Chris Paul and a slew of draft picks.
This obviously took Westbrook off the board for the Miami Heat, but it was not long after this deal had been broken by the media that other rumors and speculation started to swirl. Many reporters and media outlets, including the authority on matters such as these in Adrian Wojnarowski, started to report that the Miami Heat may be interested in taking on Chris Paul’s albatross of a contract.