Contract seasons can be a wonderful thing or a terrifying thing in the NBA, both for the player and the team concerned. In the case of the Miami Heat this coming season, they’ll have the rather burdensome contract of Meyers Leonard coming off the books at season’s end and they’ll clear some salary cap space for next summer.
With a salary of $11.3 million next season, Leonard is in the final year of a four-year, $41 million contract signed in 2016 with the Portland Trail Blazers. A beneficiary of the massive cap spike in 2016 when the league salary cap jumped from $70 million to $94 million, Leonard will be looking to set himself up with another big pay-day once this deal comes to a conclusion.