DefenseWins wrote:http://miamiherald.typepad.com/sports-buzz/2014/07/heat-free-agent-chatter-on-players-miami-has-called-about-returning-players-and-more.html
Hmmm this guy cited that Dengs agent has said Deng likes the Heat and they haven't spoken about money, but they are waiting for the Big 3 to sort out
Apparently other teams have inquired about Mario and Mario isn't sure if the Heats interest
Nice link, this strikes me as mostly plausible/believable. Got Deng's agent to comment on record, too, which is pretty impressive actually.
I think it's a pretty fair point that if, at the end of the day, we are only clearing enough space to offer a guy a deal starting at ~7M/year, it might make sense to just go the "capped out" route and use exceptions so the team can at least give pay raises to guys like Ray and compensate guys like Haslem. I guess that's only unattractive if there's someone you really really want who won't take the full MLE but would take 6-7M. But that means asking those other guys to come back on the vet min, which the front office might not want to do.
