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Owner: Heat may not wait for 2010 free agents
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06:41 AM ET 05.06 | It will be challenging for the Heat to upgrade significantly this summer because it is up against the luxury-tax threshold and wants big 2010 salary-cap space to re-sign Dwyane Wade and another free agent (potentially Chris Bosh or Amare Stoudemire). But owner Micky Arison said this week the Heat is willing to expedite the process this summer if the opportunity arises. ''If a player you would be targeting became available in 2009, why wouldn't you do it?'' Arison said of possibly trading for a 2010 free agent. ``. . . We have not historically been a very patient organization. We're an organization that moves quickly. If the opportunity came along, we would consider it. But we're doing it under certain restraints.'' The sense here is that modest tinkering is most likely.
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It is going to be a wild ride this offseason through next season and then ending in the summer of 2010. It should be fun to watch.
Marcusjj
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The Heat must make a trade quickly. Wade's patience has limits. The Heat clearly need another high-scoring threat to take some of the scoring load off him. Not saying that he needs it, but in the playoffs, you don't go far counting on one guy.
Shawn Marion could have been that second option, but it's too bad, he wasn't happy with the Miami system. They finally traded him for Jermaine O'Neal, but he's no longer the all-star center he used to be.
If nothing is done to get that second offensive option, or make Michael Beasley quickly develop as a consistent go-to-guy, Wade's days in Miami will be over very soon.
nuthnbtnet
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there gonna go for boozer they have been talking about for the past two yrs
wanna get blank!!!
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The heat don't have to wait until 2010. They have a decent team. With some tweaking they will stink a whole lot less.
Docmadlab
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man talk about no paitence......
take a breath-
they don't "HAVE' to do anything quickly- since there is nothing
that can/will be done before the playoffs end....
Marion was NOT that guy- as his 1 1/2 years there showed us
there is no 'quick'development of beasley- he was a rookie-
did show that he'll be a player- but it'll take some time
This is EXACTLY why we fans aren't GM's
jgb
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''If a player you would be targeting became available in 2009, why wouldn't you do it?''
I think several big-market teams will be taking this philosophy
-there absolutely is no reason to wait if you are targeting someone
there will be more mid-season trades next year than there has
ever been (IMO)
jgb
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"tweaking" and "stink a whole lot less" in the same sentence?
vinnymac
Dallas , NC
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I hope Riley doesn't screw this up. If my Heat want to even be relevant, they have to re-sign Wade and get either Stoudemire or Bosh this summer or next. Riley can't let this get away from him or he will lose the fanbase. We will be legitimate contenders with Wade, Beasley, Chalmers, Cook, and (Bosh, Stoudemire, even Tyson Chandler). Get it done, Riley.
'NoleInWadeCounty
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Marion was not an option and will never be for a team. The guy is overrated and he had 1 year w/ the Heat and yet he didn't do anything to make that team better. Marion cannot create his own shot and he has no low post move. He is just a run and gun player and a put back rebound guy. JO was still the better option over Marion. I think the Heat is done. They don't have the coach and the cast of supporting players that DWade needs to succeed. He will never have the same type of cast as what he had in his championship year. You can say that he was lucky to have Shaq, Zo, Posey, Williams (white Chocolate), Payton, etc. DWade was the main guy but he had veterans that could take over on offense and defense. We just hope that he would not become the second coming of Iverson.
Guam Baller
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Bosh is going to Cleveland in 2010 unless Toronto trades him sometime before then. He wants to win rings with LeBron and they are boys.
bigdog1002
Huntsville , AL
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Bosh for Beasley & Udonis
AWIII75
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I see Bosh and a bad contract for Haslem, Cook and Blount, who's contract will come off the books soon...Wade has been more than patient with Riley and his ineffective recruiting...Riley has let allstars who first came to Miami like Rashard Lewis and Mo Will walk to oher teams and those teams are in the second round...We need a recruiter who isn't just looking at defensive players and saying we can make them offensive...because you can't...when nerves also play into the picture, a defensive, streaky shooter is going to have very few good shooting streaks and many bad nights...get some talent in Miami Already...
Heater
Miami , FL
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This owner is clearly saying something to make fans buy tickets. Look at their salary situation... they are stuck till 2010 and they don't have any assets to get the kinda star he mentioned.
Lostwill
Natick , MA
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That would be a horrible trade
ATLJAMES
Roswell , GA
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BEASLEY AND BLOUNT FOR BOSH AND SIGN AND TRADE ARTEST FOR JAMES JONES AND A PICK OR HASLEM AND A PICK
CHALMERS
WADE
ARTEST
BOSH
ONEIL
The Analizer
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Arison's biggest mistake was not firing Riley Coyote after season. I'm a Heat fan, and I have no confidence in his personnel decisions. He has proven time and again to make the wrong move. The Heat will continue their downward spiral as long as Riley is at the helm. Arison needs to step in before they lose D Wade.
Hllywd: Old…
Columbus , OH
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Miami ownership please dont do what the suns do which is panic and make stupid trades every year that set back your team even more just because they dont win in the playoffs which is always, stick with your roster and groom those rookies and make sure u keep Wade if u dont sell the team....
SPURSDYNASTY
La Vergne , TN
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Let's make it simple.
1. There's no title in Miami if there's no DWade.
2. There's no title in Miami if there's DWade ONLY.
3. There can be a title if DWade finds some help on the offense.
4. If nothing is done to find that help soon, DWade will go.
That's why I'm talking about quickness. Wade is an established player, a champion and a Finals MVP. He's not a youngster anymore like Kevin Durant, still growing up with his team.
DWade, just like Kobe or LeBron, wants to win RIGHT NOW. Or at least, he wants to SEE that his team is doing correct moves to become a serious contender.
If that doesn't happen within a year or two, the Heat will have a hard time convincing him to stay.
nuthnbtnet
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Tyson Chandler stinks....I don't want him down here.....all he does it get alley oops from Paul....we wont help......The Heat need Boozer, Amare,or Bosh.....
browardcane
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