The NBA off-season is well in effect for the Miami Heat. A little more than two weeks have passed since Miami’s first round playoff exit, but the front office has already begun to make moves.
Third-year forward Jordan Mickey was the first severed by team president Pat Riley’s guillotine. Following 23 appearances in Heat red, white and black, Mickey’s team option for the 2018-19 season was declined.
The move foretells a busy off-season and free agency in South Beach. Mickey was set to earn just $1.6 million for the 2019 season – as of now, his absence does little to assuage Miami’s salary cap woes.