NBA Rumors: If Dwyane Wade is indeed thinking about leaving the Miami Heat, he should sign with the Cleveland Cavaliers
Dwyane Wade and the Miami Heat, for more than a decade, have been synonymous. You couldn’t bring one up without the other – similar to what Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers were before he decided to retire this past season.
It was destined for a similar storybook ending, too. Until last summer.
Wade and the Heat took their negotiations publicly, which was uncharacteristic of both. In the end, Wade returned to the Heat on a one-year deal.
Even though he said during the season that he wanted a quiet and quick resolution in this year’s free agency, that hasn’t happened.
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In fact, word out of Miami – and those with the information – believe that the Heat and Wade are having real issues. The threat of Wade leaving the Heat is real.
On his ESPN radio show, Dan Le Batard said this:
"[transcribed by Slice Miami]“The problems are real. It’s not something we’re soap-opera manufacturing because we love it. The relationship has never been in a more dangerous place when you consider golden state going to get Durant with all their players to recruit him and you consider the spurs going with LaMarcus Aldridge and pat riley couldn’t go with Dwyane Wade and Dwyane Wade’s camp leaked before the meeting something that played defense against what the miami heat was trying to do in that meeting… But he was in no way helping the franchise with the recruitment of Durant in any way, didn’t make a public comment about wanting Durant. Didn’t reach out in private. Somewhere along the line here and I don’t know how this happened and I don’t know why it happened but somewhere along the line there’s a trust fracture here.”“Dwyane Wade clearly doesn’t trust the Miami Heat to give him X number of million on the front end with the bird rights they can give him at the end of the contract the parachute of one-year, $30 million, $40 million, $50 million — he clearly doesn’t trust them to do that…"
Wade reportedly wants a three-year, $60 million contract. At the moment, the Heat have only a two-year, $40 million offer on the table.
As the stalemate continues, there have been whispers of where Wade could flee if this situation with Miami doesn’t heal itself.
Two teams that have pursued Wade from the beginning have been the Denver Nuggets and Milwaukee Bucks. The Bucks don’t necessarily have the cap space to sign Wade right now, but they could move Greg Monroe to create the room.
The Nuggets have the space now.
Question is, how bad does Wade want to get paid? If this is really about money, which seems to be the case at the moment, then he’ll take his money from Milwaukee and Denver and then worry about his basketball situation later.
However, if he’s going to leave the Heat he should make the move worth it. Wade should sign with the Cleveland Cavaliers. He would reunite with LeBron James and would help the Cavs in defending their title, probably against the Golden State (Super) Warriors.
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If Dwyane Wade leaves Miami, which I still don’t believe he’ll do, he should sign with the Cavs.