The Curious Case of Mario Chalmers

We are all Mario Chalmers.

We all try too hard. We all get yelled at. We all occasionally do something well enough, but screw up enough that it can overshadow the good.

But for Chalmers and the Miami Heat, all of those things get looked at under a different microscope than ours.

After seven seasons, the Heat know what Chalmers is and isn’t. Now the question is how do they deal with him going into the upcoming season?

With the Heat looking at a hefty repeater-tax bill if they keep the same roster through the end of the upcoming season, Chalmers has been singled out as the odd-man that Heat fans look to plug a into the ESPN Trade Machine. At $4.3 million, sending Chalmers off to Portland, Europe,…