Unlike the Chicago Bulls this year, the Miami Heat roster for 2016 thinned out considerably without Dwyane Wade back as their main gun.
Goran Dragic — the guy purportedly vying for locker room supremacy with a team that has been Wade’s for so long — seems to have won the battle. Pat Riley kept both Dragic and Hassan Whiteside on the team ahead of Wade in off-season contract negotiations.
The snub forced Wade to take a second look at his hometown and he realized that it would be in his best interest to play for the Bulls than run as second fiddle again in Miami.