The Heat's starting center prefers to look ahead to his first full season in Miami, but if he continues to progress he'll be in line for a huge pay raise.
When Hassan Whiteside was signed to the Miami Heat it immediately after Shannon Brown was cut. Many fans at the time just rolled their eyes because Whiteside could have been just another Greg Oden or Eddy Curry project and the team had cut athleticism for a project big.
Then you really saw what kind of a player Whiteside was.