Buyout Season Is Becoming The Miami Heat’s New Trade Deadline
- 8 years ago
The role of NBA presidents and general managers has always been one filled with ways to try and manipulate the rules in place in order to build the best team possible.
Take, for instance, Pat Riley 's salary cap purge in 2008 and 2009 that kept the team competitive while freeing up enough money to make the impossible happen with Dwyane Wade , Chris Bosh and LeBron James ' Big Three.
However, the implementation of the highly punitive luxury tax rules seemed to wipe out a lot of those advantages.
That is until Riley and Miami Heat general manager, Andy Elisburg, found a new way to manipulate the buyout season in a fashion that acts as unofficial trades — after the February deadline — while apparently angering several other teams.
With names like Kevin Martin expected to join Marcus Thornton on the waiver wire - before the March 1 cutoff date to be waived and playoff eligible - the Heat brass once again found a way to circumvent the rules that were created to stifle them.
Take, for instance, Pat Riley 's salary cap purge in 2008 and 2009 that kept the team competitive while freeing up enough money to make the impossible happen with Dwyane Wade , Chris Bosh and LeBron James ' Big Three.
However, the implementation of the highly punitive luxury tax rules seemed to wipe out a lot of those advantages.
That is until Riley and Miami Heat general manager, Andy Elisburg, found a new way to manipulate the buyout season in a fashion that acts as unofficial trades — after the February deadline — while apparently angering several other teams.
With names like Kevin Martin expected to join Marcus Thornton on the waiver wire - before the March 1 cutoff date to be waived and playoff eligible - the Heat brass once again found a way to circumvent the rules that were created to stifle them.