Miami Heat center Hassan Whiteside has exercised the $27.1 million player option on his contract for 2019-20, a league source told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.
It'll be the final year of the four-year, $98 million contract Whiteside signed with Miami, and the salary he'll command next season will keep him as the highest-paid player on the Heat roster.
Whiteside averaged 12.3 points and a team-best 11.3 rebounds per game last season, appearing in 72 games and starting 53 of those. He also averaged only 23 minutes per game, and at times expressed his displeasure about not having a larger role.