How many ways can we recount the free agents who elected not to join the Miami Heat in the last few years?
Miami offers compelling arguments to contemplative players for keeping it on their radar.
A state tax break for at least 41 games out of the year (players pay taxes based on where they play), a non-existent winter season and one of the best coach-president tandems in the NBA in Erik Spoelstra and Pat Riley.
Blockading the allure of these incentives however, is the Heat’s dire salary circumstances.
Miami has exceeded the salary cap for the next two season, thanks to decisions made in the summer of 2016.