Dwyane Wade wants OUT

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Wade, Heat have significant difference in contract negotiations; Wade open to leaving Heat if it doesn't get resolved

The Heat and Dwyane Wade have been discussing potential resolutions of his contract situation and there’s a significant difference in what both parties believe he should be paid for the next three seasons, according to multiple sources.

Wade must decide by late June whether to opt out of a contract that would pay him $16.1 million next season.

The Heat wants to keep him but believes that paying him what he’s seeking would dramatically reduce its flexibility to add additional players during the summers of 2016 and 2017.


Last summer, in order to give the Heat flexibility to augment its roster, Wade opted out of the final two years of a contract that would have paid him $41.6 million. He instead accepted a two-year, $31 million deal, which included a player option for next season at $16.1 million.

If Dragic re-signs and if Hassan Whiteside commands a huge contract from Miami as an unrestricted free agent next summer, the Heat could be paying more than $80 million to four players in 2016-17. Throw in the $5.8 million due Josh McRoberts in 2016-17, and that would leave the Heat with no room under an $89 million cap to address small forward or bolster its bench.

Wade is an 11-time All-Star and eight times has been named to the All-NBA’s first, second or third team. He was not on an All-NBA team this season but received two third-place votes.


He has ranked seventh, 18th and 24th in ESPN’s NBA efficiency ratings over the past threes season. He shot 47 percent last season, lowest since his rookie season but second behind J.J.Redick among shooting guards.


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[Sheriff Hoyt]

Wade's knees are near jelly status.

[Koolaid_Man]

These niggas are stupid...Kobe tried to warn them....get your fucking paper,..now the Heat fucking over him for his loyalty....Tammy didnt care Pop ran game on him :lol

[Dex]

:lol Taking a paycut just to watch Lebron bail to Cleveland.

[Sheriff Hoyt]

:lol Taking a paycut just to watch Lebron bail to Cleveland.

:lmao

[Strange Love]

How about...retiring?

[Koolaid_Man]

Lebron was supposed to be his boy..he fucked over Wade....he could have at least told him...Wade is exhibit #1 of why you don’t sacrifice first… He should have gotten his instead of giving up a ton of $ in the hopes that Lebron would come back. Lebron got his. Bosh got his. Dragic is gonna get his. Wade should have gotten his too

[dg7md]

Wade shouldn't leave the Heat. He will go down as that franchise's best all-time player if he doesn't, even when LeBron was there people still considered it "Wade's team". He's a folktale hero down there.

[Koolaid_Man]

Wade shouldn't leave the Heat. He will go down as that franchise's best all-time player if he doesn't, even when LeBron was there people still considered it "Wade's team". He's a folktale hero down there.

Talk is cheap..stop trying to fuck over that nigga

[dg7md]

Talk is cheap..stop trying to fuck over that nigga

Wade's on the downward end of his career. He's no longer a top 20 NBA talent but he will be paid handsomely for his past accolades and for what he means to the franchise. He'll get paid here and nothing will happen.

Or he can sign on another team and get bounced in the first round and sacrifice his legacy a bit. Not like he has a chance to ring again unless he becomes a second or third option on a team needing a position player like him.

[D-Wade]

Interesting

[InRareForm]

Wade paints his toe nails

[MultiTroll]

Massively overpaid as the contract presently is.

[DMC]

Wade shouldn't leave the Heat. He will go down as that franchise's best all-time player if he doesn't, even when LeBron was there people still considered it "Wade's team". He's a folktale hero down there.
He will even if he does leave. He's on his twilight years. He's still capable of putting up good numbers, but his glory days are behind him. The Heat should pay him for his loyalty and for the fact that he took one in the shorts to get them to the promised land. If they don't meet him on it, I'd walk if I was him. He can afford to.

[Jacob1983]

He will never get out of the first round in Miami again. He will be lucky enough to be on another Heat playoff team.

[AlexJones]

He will never get out of the first round in Miami again. He will be lucky enough to be on another Heat playoff team.

:lol will you ever get over 06, tbh?

[Jacob1983]

2011 happened but I can never forget the pain that DWhistle caused my Mavs and Mavs nation in 2006.

[jeebus]

Interesting
:cry RIP. you're joining the ranks with bynumite when it comes to usernames

[AlexJones]

2011 happened but I can never forget the pain that DWhistle caused my Mavs and Mavs nation in 2006.

It's ok bro, it's all over.

[Malik Hairston]

Can't blame Wade for trying to cash in after Lebron cost him a bunch of money, tbh:lol..

I don't blame any nigga for getting money, especially in the NBA..the ultimate winners like Duncan, Lebron, and even Dad Killer do anything to win, that's all they care about, but I don't blame guys like Kobe and Wade for not caring about winning..

The guys that want all the money have a good argument when they look at Dirk and how Cuban/Mavs front office fucked him:lol..

[pgardn]

These niggas are stupid...Kobe tried to warn them....get your fucking paper,..now the Heat fucking over him for his loyalty....Tammy didnt care Pop ran game on him :lol

He warned them no rings.
Good call.

[~O~]

Fuck the contract. Just be glad there's no motherfuckers here saying "we got this" and "four peat". This probably happening in a parallel universe.

[DJR210]

Wade's knees are near jelly status.

:lol


:cry RIP. you're joining the ranks with bynumite when it comes to usernames

:lol


:lol Taking a paycut just to watch Lebron bail to Cleveland.

:lol great moment after getting his shit pushed in by Kawhi and Danny all series

[TDMVPDPOY]

if wade leaves

lol tragic max contract player on heat team going nowhere = crap then the previous team he was on

[dbreiden83080]

Heat would be smart to let him go.. Business is business and he doesn't have much left in the tank. He wants to be paid for his past mostly. He's had a great career there maybe it will forever sour the relationship, but you will be badly overpaying him for the next 4-5 years..

[therealtruth]

Won't matter till next year. He's not leaving 16M on the table.

[Franklin]

dude will get remarried to Lebron in Cleveland just like Lebron did in 2010 imho, Heat ain't the Lakers and Riley ain't Mitch tbh.

[Thread]

This is where Riley should stand up. Wade says he took less thru the years to enable the roster. If true, it shouldn't need discussing. Give him his fuckin' money.

[Mikeanaro]

Leroy said he only has 3 friends on the NBA= Carmelo, Wade and CP3 so if he was going to Cleveland why the hell he didnt say a thing to his friend Whistle so he could keep 10 mil without opting out? Loyalty :lmao

[D-Wade]

:wakeup

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[Malik Hairston]

:lol Mike Ryan is half-joking, tbh, he was saying the same shit on the Lebatard show..

Heat should pay Wade IMO..it's irresponsible from a basketball perspective, since he's clearly on the decline and can't play more than 60ish games per season, but he has already made several sacrifices for the Heat + he orchestrated the Lebron era, which is something the Heat franchise will probably never experience again..

[Splits]

Give him 2 years $48.5 mil and call it a franchise

[spursparker9]

Just sign with the Cavs already

[baseline bum]

Just sign with the Cavs already

For like $2 million a year? I think all Cleveland will have is the mini-MLE due to being over the luxury tax.

[DMC]

Can't blame Wade for trying to cash in after Lebron cost him a bunch of money, tbh:lol..

I don't blame any nigga for getting money, especially in the NBA..the ultimate winners like Duncan, Lebron, and even Dad Killer do anything to win, that's all they care about, but I don't blame guys like Kobe and Wade for not caring about winning..

The guys that want all the money have a good argument when they look at Dirk and how Cuban/Mavs front office fucked him:lol..

Money is winning.

"No, no raise for me sir.. I want to save that money so we can hire a new guy and get that company trophy this year at the sales meeting"

[LakerHater]

fLakers gonna make a strong push for him!

At this stage in thier careers (KoMe & Wade), they cant finish a season!
So 1 plays half & the other plays the other half of a season!

[Strange Love]

No one in their right mind would give him more money than the Heat are willing to give.

He's finished. He cant even play a full season anymore.

[Nathan89]

S&T for Tony and begin the tank tbh

[Koolaid_Man]

This is where Riley should stand up. Wade says he took less thru the years to enable the roster. If true, it shouldn't need discussing. Give him his fuckin' money.


Riley wont do it unless it's coming from fan pressure....in a sense this is funny becsuse Wade thought he was Kobe....

[TDMVPDPOY]

SIGN N TRADE to cavs for kevin love?

[Koolaid_Man]

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[djohn2oo8]

So this gulf between Wade and the Heat isn't just about Wade and the Heat; it is about trying to undo the precedent Wade, James and Bosh set by taking less to play together in Miami (even though, given the lack of state income taxes in Florida, it wasn't actually much of a discount). James and Bosh have gotten their max contracts since. Wade hasn't. And he has never been the highest-paid player on a Heat team, either. Believe it or not, there was one that featured Jermaine O'Neal making $7 million more than Wade.

Riley, the godfather, loves the idea of family, but the mafia is a family, too. Makes sense the Heat wouldn't believe the market will pay Wade what Wade believes the market will pay Wade. He is not as valuable anywhere, in the Heat's mind, as he is in Miami, so Miami wants to work with its favorite son and keep him here -- but not at the crippling expense of all future flexibility.

The Heat seem to want Wade to opt in to his contract for next season at $16 million, then become a free agent and leave their and his future blank-check open. This will give the Heat the flexibility it craves to make a run at a player like Kevin Durant. Pipe dream? Maybe. But that's what Wade himself once told the Heat about his great friend LeBron James being in Miami. Miami wants to have the flexibility that gets Riley in a room with Durant.

The Heat can have room for Wade, Bosh, Goran Dragic, Hassan Whiteside and Durant, but only if Wade opts in for this year and gives them that flexibility by being a free agent in 2016. This requires Wade to have a lot of trust, obviously, and the leap of faith that the team will take care of him in 2016. It also requires some creativity and relationship-building with Whiteside, who will be tucked away in something called a "cap hold." And it ultimately involves -- and this is a big ask -- Wade being OK with newcomers who haven't done much of anything for the organization, such as Dragic and Whiteside, earning more than he does.

That's how last week became a public mess -- the Heat pushing for Wade to opt in and Wade refusing to give the team an answer about his plans. You don't know the mercenary side of Riley very well if you think he's going to be pressured into paying Wade excessively by public relations. He isn't going to give Wade the end-of-an-era Kobe kiss that was popular in the short term in Los Angeles but crippling in the long term. Riley values Wade, yes, but that 2016 flexibility means more to him than the short-term risk of being temporarily unpopular by alienating the city's most popular athlete. He'll give Wade "fair" value, and maybe a little more than fair value based on past giving, but he'll also remind Wade that injuries have him playing only in two-thirds of the games his salary pays in recent seasons.

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The Heat's argument regarding Wade is simple: Wade is an international superstar who makes more money in endorsements when playing games that matter in the playoffs -- the kind the team didn't have this season. And, like Mourning, there's a paid life after basketball as an ambassador in which money can be made up with an invented lifetime position. "Heat lifer," an expression Wade coined, can echo in employment and eternity after Wade's playing days if he's willing to do what he has always done -- help the team a little more by helping himself a little less.

Sounds nice in theory, yes, but it will have to happen over the objections of his union and his ego, and things can get messy and complicated in the emotion business when a team isn't really working as a team. Feelings get hurt, trust and communication break, pride and public opinion infect, and next thing you know things are so noisy that one side is preaching "principle" and the other is pronouncing it "principal." It has been a very healthy and fruitful relationship. The next step is going to test it.
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[D-Wade]

Wade reportedly will opt out... just as Lou Deng opted back in.

[gambit1990]

wonder where he'll go. how much money does he want?

[Thread]

wonder where he'll go. how much money does he want?

He'll sit there until the cow jumps over the moon. Nobody will sign him. It's back to Miami, or, TnT.

[Chris]

He'll sit there until the cow jumps over the moon. Nobody will sign him. It's back to Miami, or, TnT.

He's Cleveland bound

[Thread]

^That would upset the Cleveland apple cart. It's already creaky.

[Shane27]

wonder where he'll go. how much money does he want?
48 mil over 3 years.

[Chris]

He wants the Kobe contract but he's no Kobe

[Buddy Mignon]

He should go to the Bulls and put a foot in Pau's ass.