re: Miami Heat for next season

I know they're underpaid, but that's the price of bringing three superstars together and trying to work for a title. If they were in it for the money they would never have come to South Beach together.

Hence, market notwithstanding, I don't see why it would be unreasonable to try to talk them into taking a pay cut for flexibility in signing better role players to keep their title streak going. I could see it being a nonstarter due to the impact on negotiations elsewhere.

But again, this is irrelevant for next season, since all of the Big 3 are locked in through 13/14.

I'm kinda liking the retire Mike Miller, sign a big guy plan.

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Getting rid of wade in miami would be like cutting Brees on NOLA. It will not ever happen.

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I know and completely agree. I'm just saying that if I were told to pick between the two, I'd get rid of Wade. I think that he becomes an issue on the floor with Lebron in the lineup. The ball should move through Lebron on every possession, and Wade puts a damper on that. Honestly, I think Lebron will leave Miami sooner than later, which would make me happy because I'm not much of a Heat fan, making this a moot point.

Bosh does need to take a small cut, but he is extremely valuable to the team in what he can do when he isn't having emotional problems. Like another poster said, Bosh isn't really overpaid as much as Lebron is ridiculously underpaid. Lebron even said himself that it wasn't worth making a fuss over because with the rules he could never be paid his value and still have good people around him, which is absolutely true.

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I know they're underpaid, but that's the price of bringing three superstars together and trying to work for a title. If they were in it for the money they would never have come to South Beach together.

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This is the biggest reason I don't get the vicious hate for the Heat and Lebron especially. They all took paycuts to win titles. Isn't that what people want star athletes to do?

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Lebron even said himself that it wasn't worth making a fuss over because with the rules he could never be paid his value and still have good people around him, which is absolutely true.

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If only Flacco would have thought about this before he decided to be a selfish little shite. Amirite?!

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I really just meant in general because of the max contracts. On a real open market, LeBron would be getting 30-40m a year, maybe more. But instead he's "only" getting 17m, and the max would be like 19m. Both LeBron and Bosh are max players. Not fair to say Bosh is overpaid because he makes as much as LeBron.

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I follow what you're saying here, but the same thing is going to apply; the max contract rules just make the result look ostensibly less ridiculous. James would be pulling at least $30M, almost certainly more; Wade and Bosh would be at least current-max-deal guys as well. They all had to take a big pay cut to make this work.

You're right though, I shouldn't have said Bosh is overpaid just by comparing him to LeBron. I was trying to compare to other Heat players because Bosh's price is already going to be distorted due to the pay cut, but the distortion makes my argument more flawed instead of less (that is, Bosh should be paid more compared to other bigs, not less).

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Why? Mike Miller coming off the books doesn't give them anymore cap flexibility. Regardless of what Mike Miller does they only can offer $3m to someone.

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It's more for tax relief. They can't do anything to get cap flexibility unless they trade one of the Big 3, which is a nonstarter. Swapping Mike Miller for a $3M big man saves a little cash and gives them a better interior defender in exchange for one shooter in their stable of 3-pt guys.

Of course, I guess they could just resign the Birdman and try to keep the same squad together for next year, and then worry about this stuff for 14/15.

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Say what you want, but Chalmers shows up when he needs to. Dude is a winner.

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When you have guys like LBJ and Wade on your team its hard to really stand out. I like Rio!

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Rio!

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He makes the best of plays, he makes the worst of plays.

He did come up with some crucial huge buckets in the playoffs when everyone else on the offensive side looked completely lost.

Im convinced bosh needs to stay.lol

He doesn't mind his role and has his moments

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Im convinced bosh needs to stay.lol

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Personally, I think Bosh should try different scenery. I personally think his talent is being wasted in Miami.

Obviously he could do better on any other team, but he wouldn't win championships. He wants to win championships bruh and the heat benefit from him staying obviously! Saying that, he will probably be gone after they 3 peat next year.

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It makes me how hard they fricking still get on him like he's a rookie. Bosh wade and bron just screaming at him. And yet, like you said, he has times when he is completely on fire and makes some sick plays/shots. That 35 footer at the buzzer at half time was money.

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That was awesome

. Bron and Wade will just give him shite for something he did and then rub his head like he's a little kid. It's hilarious.

About Bosh... I mean he really does make some clutch plays. I would be afraid to get rid of him for someone else.

And he is living in Miami with all that cash he's getting paid