Everyone has been saying it since the Miami Heat fell 94-75
to the Indiana Pacers Thursday night, The Miami Heat are in trouble. Perhaps
someone should have informed Pat Riley that if one of the Big Three got
injured, the Heat had no fall back plan.
That being said, let’s start with the obvious change the
Heat will make if they can’t get past the Pacers. Erik Spolstera will be
looking for a new job. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, as he lost
what little control of the team he had Thursday night after his altercation
with Dwyane Wade. The question is, who would be the new coach? The obvious
choice would be Pat Riley, but you’d have to assume they’d at least contact
Phil Jackson just to gauge his interest.
Joining Spolstera on his search for a new job would be one
of the members of the Big Three NOT named LeBron James (we’ll get to him later
in this post). I think the obvious choice would be to trade Chris Bosh for
someone without a max contract. That way you can open up your salary cap a
little too and try to get some bench depth, which the Heat are clearly in need
of.
Getting back to LeBron, he has an opt-out clause in his
contract at the end of next season. If big changes aren’t made in Miami and
LeBron’s still ring-less, watch for him to at least consider testing the free
agent market.
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