If you’re expecting the Miami Heat to pivot into a rebuild this season, keep dreaming. Any real reset starts with the team realizing it won’t have meaningful cap flexibility until 2020 at the earliest. From there, the Heat cannot be totally serious about rebuilding unless they move Goran Dragic. And according to ESPN.com’s Zach Lowe, [...]
January 11, 2018
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Hassan Whiteside doesn’t agree with Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra. Or Dion Waiters. Or Goran Dragic. Sensing a pattern here? Coach Spo and Waiters recently riffed on the Heat’s screen-setting issues, a direct form of commentary on Whiteside’s play. And now Dragic has come out with similar sentiments, per the Palm Peach Post‘s Anthony Chiang: [...]
November 22, 2017
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As the Kyrie Irving sweepstakes continue to tick on, specific packages from potential suitors have started, sort of, to leak out. Among those that have trickled out: The Miami Heat’s offer. According to ESPN.com’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the Heat are willing to dangle a package built around Goran Dragic and Justise Winslow: The Heat are willing [...]
July 31, 2017
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The Miami Heat were very fun this season. After starting 11-30, they went 30-11 the rest of the way, posting the second-best record in the damn league for half the freaking season. They missed the playoffs, but whatever. They were entertaining to watch, even when Dion Waiters went down with an ankle injury. But will [...]
April 19, 2017
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If you were to poll 10 casual NBA observers, the type that pay some level of attention during the regular season but don’t really get engaged with the product until the playoffs roll around, who do you think they would say the hottest team in the NBA is right now? You would most likely get [...]
February 2, 2017
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The Orlando Magic seemed to have a patient and well-defined rebuilding plan after finally deciding to trade an unhappy Dwight Howard in the summer of 2012. Using draft picks and their currents assets, they drafted or acquired Nikola Vucevic (in the Howard trade), Tobias Harris, Evan Fournier, Aaron Gordon, Victor Oladipo and Elfrid Payton to [...]
January 24, 2017
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At 30 years old, you’d think Goran Dragic might want to distance himself from the team with the NBA’s second-worst record. But he doesn’t. Per Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald, Dragic is hoping to stick with the Miami Heat as they rebuild in the post-LeBron James and -Dwyane Wade era: ESPN reported Friday that the Orlando [...]
January 23, 2017
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In the wake of the Miami Heat’s down season, Goran Dragic is expected to be available ahead of the trade deadline. If you want him, though, you’ll need to do better than Nikola Vucevic and a first-round pick. Just ask the Orlando Magic, according to ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: The most substantive trade proposal generating buzz [...]
January 20, 2017
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The point guard market in the NBA is weird. It’s one of the deepest positions, which inherently drives down the value of available point guards, yet it’s such an important position that if you don’t have a starting-level stud at your disposal, you should be willing to mortgage the farm to get one. Enter Goran Dragic, [...]
January 13, 2017
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With the Miami Heat miles outside the Eastern Conference playoff picture, you probably think they’ll be sellers at the trade deadline. That feeling also probably intensified once word came that Justise Winslow would miss the rest of the season with a shoulder injury. And your first instinct was to then probably envision Goran Dragic in [...]
January 9, 2017
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