Every off-season, NBA teams have tough decisions to make. It’s not whether they’ll max their superstar or let him walk, that’s easy. The decisions on what role players to keep usually proves to be the most difficult, because those are the players that do the dirty work. The Miami Heat are no exception.
Sure, you can look from the outside in and say that most role players are replaceable. But how true would that be? When the Heat won the championship in 2012 and 2013, guys like Shane Battier, Mike Miller, and Chris Anderson were important pieces to the puzzle.