The Miami Heat put the finishing touches on its stinging end to the 2016-17 season Monday when players returned to AmericanAirlines Arena to collect personal items from their lockers and conduct exit interviews with the coaching staff.
But as coach Erik Spoelstra put it, it felt more like a “clean up day, not a clean out day.”
“Hopefully this is dot, dot, dot continued and we can build on this,” Spoelstra said. “But, all those discussions are literally months away.
“We want our guys to still feel at home,” Spoelstra continued. “Free agency is going to happen.