After Wednesday night’s win against the Dallas Mavericks, the Miami Heat have just 26 games remaining on the regular season schedule.
Around this time, NBA fans aren’t just looking at their own team, but the teams surrounding them in the standings.
This season, there are a number of squads neck-and-neck with the Heat for the final three slots in the Eastern Conference playoffs. But did the trade deadline help or hurt that team’s chances of grabbing a playoff spot?
We know Miami used the deadline as a time to shed some salary, sending Tyler Johnson and Wayne Ellington to Phoenix while taking on Ryan Anderson’s contract.