This offseason, many stars have received contract extensions from the team, Embiid signed a three-year, $193 million contract, Tatum got a five-year, $315 million contract, and Bam Adebayo got a three-year, $166 million contract. Speaking of which, Butler is also facing an early contract extension this offseason, but the Heat did not give him a contract extension, and judging from the news that is coming out now, the Heat now want to give up Butler.
According to American media reports, the reason why the Heat want to give up Butler is because Butler missed a lot of games last season with an injury, and his state after his comeback is not satisfactory, so they think that Butler is no longer at his peak, and the team wants to give up on him. Riley was also unabashed in the interview, he said: Butler has two years left on his contract, and it is not yet time to discuss, if we give a player who can't play every night a max salary contract, then this contract is a premium contract, and we will lose a lot.
Riley's meaning is very clear, if you can't play full-time, I won't give you a big contract, although Butler's contract has two years, but he will be 36 years old in two years, in this case, if he really doesn't have the peak state by then, then it will be even more useless to want the last big contract in his career, so according to American media reports, Butler may jump out of the contract next summer, he wants to join the Nets, and the Warriors are also interested in him.
To be honest, Butler should have left a long time ago, although he is loyal to the Heat, but the current Heat is not like it was then, Riley has not operated well in the past few years, the previous God Operator in the 00s and 10s relied on excellent operation to help the Heat win the championship, but now Riley seems to be old, in 20 and 23 Butler has led the team to the Finals, but Riley did not introduce him the right helper to compete for the championship.
His operation can even be said to be terrible, taking last season as an example, the team has a good chance of getting Lillard in the offseason, and Lillard has already named him to go to the Heat, in this case, as long as the Heat can send more suitable chips, they can take Lillard. At that time, Riley was only thinking about pitting people, giving a Herro and 1-2 first-round picks to get Lillard, and at first the Trail Blazers still wanted to talk about it and wanted the Heat to give a few more first-round picks.
A player of Lillard's level, in exchange for multiple first-round picks, is absolutely okay, and the Trail Blazers can be regarded as a reasonable asking price, but Riley directly refused, he thought he had an absolute advantage to get Lillard, but he overestimated his ability and was cut off by the Bucks, but the Bucks sent All-Star Holiday + 2 first-round picks to get Lillard, and then Holiday sold 2 more first-round picks, and the price of the Bucks is obviously more sincere.
In the absence of Lillard, I thought Riley would try to chase other stars, such as Mitchell, Mitchell wanted to come to the Heat last season, after all, there is his friend Adebayo here, but Riley's operation directly blocked the possibility of Mitchell joining, they traded Lowry in exchange for Rozier, they thought they were sending Lowry away in exchange for a top backcourt, but they didn't expect Rozier to be a premium contract.
Before joining the Heat, Rozier averaged 23.2 points, 4 rebounds, 6.6 assists and 1.1 steals per game, shooting 46% from the field and 36% from three-point range. After joining the Heat, the team also gave him plenty of balls, but he averaged only 16.4 points, 4.2 rebounds and 3.6 assists per game, shooting 42% from the field and 37% from three-point range.
Rozier's net efficiency last season was -7, and he lost by 7 points per 100 games on the field, which has shown that his role is a side effect, and the data simply does not reflect the damage he has done to the team, and Rozier has a 51 million contract in the next two years, which is very premium. At first, Riley thought that Lowry's garbage contract and a first-round pick were exchanged for a suitable backcourt puzzle, but it turned out to be a garbage contract.
The problem now is that they can't send Rozier away if they want to, because no one will give a sixth-man level backcourt player an average annual salary of 25 million. Last season, he averaged 16 points per game and an annual salary of 23 million, which is not a loss if you look at the data, but considering the harm he has to the team on the court, to be honest, give him an average annual salary of 1500, it is estimated that many teams will hesitate. The Hornets aren't stupid, and if it's really a star who trades you, then it probably won't just be a first-round pick for you.
Coupled with Herro's premium contract, the Heat now have too many premium contracts, and the team simply can't make proper operations, and Butler should really leave if he wants to chase honor. Speaking of which, what do you have to say about the current Heat? Welcome to leave a message to discuss.