NBA: Grading every team through the first quarter of 2018-19

NBA Los Angeles Clippers Doc Rivers (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images)
NBA Los Angeles Clippers Doc Rivers (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images)
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Miami Heat
Miami Heat Erik Spoelstra (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images)

Miami Heat

Record: 7-13 

Grade: D 

The Miami Heat have been a massive disappointment this season, even though they shouldn’t exactly be looked that way. However, prior to the season, many penciled in this team as a playoff team in the Eastern Conference. So far, that doesn’t seem to be the case.

The Heat is one of the worst teams in the East, and refuses to sell off its assets and embrace what they are – a really bad team, in need of a complete rebuild. After they whiffed on landing Jimmy Butler, it was clear that this team needed to blow up the roster.

Perhaps their upcoming West Coast trip will make things even more clearer, but I can’t help but think that this team needs to begin to trade away what little veteran assets they currently have.