In an effort to get below the NBA’s luxury tax, the Miami Heat had to make some tough decision this past season. They traded both Mario Chalmers and Chris Andersen to the Memphis Grizzlies, waived Beno Udrih and traded Jarnell Stokes to the New Orleans Pelicans.
Of all of them, the Stokes deal seems like a throwaway, though it might have been harder for the Heat to swallow than we originally thought.
According to Cody Taylor at Basketball Insiders, the Heat may have be higher on Stokes than it seemed.
“I realized that the NBA is very honest,” Stokes told Basketball Insiders.