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Miami Heat: 2016 Offseason Grades

By Gerald Bourguet

Mar 22, 2016; New Orleans, LA, USA; Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade (3) against the New Orleans Pelicans during the fourth quarter of a game at the Smoothie King Center. The Heat defeated the Pelicans 113-99. Mandatory Credit: Derick E. Hingle-USA TODAY Sports
Mar 22, 2016; New Orleans, LA, USA; Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade (3) against the New Orleans Pelicans during the fourth quarter of a game at the Smoothie King Center. The Heat defeated the Pelicans 113-99. Mandatory Credit: Derick E. Hingle-USA TODAY Sports /
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Nov 27, 2015; New York, NY, USA; Miami Heat forward Chris Bosh (1) stops a shot by New York Knicks forward Derrick Williams (23) during the fourth quarter at Madison Square Garden. Miami Heat won 97-78. Mandatory Credit: Anthony Gruppuso-USA TODAY Sports /

Where There’s A D-Will, There’s A Way

On a one-year, $5 million deal, the Heat got decent value in signing Derrick Williams, who will now be playing for his fourth NBA team in six seasons.

Last year in New York, the “other D-Will” averaged 9.3 points and 3.7 rebounds in 17.9 minutes per game. He shot a respectable 45 percent from the floor, but only made 29.3 percent of his three-pointers.

He’s hardly the prototypical stretch-4 of the modern day NBA, but Williams can provide some scoring and energy off the bench. On a $5 million salary, that’s not insignificant, especially for a team that lost three starters and a few key bench players over the summer.

However, with Wade, Deng, Johnson, Amar’e Stoudemire and Gerald Green all on the way out, it’s hard to get too excited about an acquisition like Derrick Williams. Even on a cheap contract, this kind of deal was all to emblematic of the kind of summer Miami had.

Grade: C

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