The 2017 NBA Playoffs are chugging along while the Miami Heat watch from home. To make things more interesting for Heat fans, we present one free agent target from every remaining team.
For the second time in the three years since LeBron James went home, the Miami Heat have also gone home, just not to Northeast Ohio. Rather, home to watch the playoffs from their couches like the rest of us.
Miami probably deserved to make it in over the Chicago Bulls this year, but unfortunately missed out due to a tiebreaker. It is what it is, though I admit I haven’t fully gone through all seven stages of grief yet.
Anger and bargaining aside, as a Heat fan, I also find myself struggling to enjoy the postseason due to a lack of rooting interest. I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels that way, either.
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I mean, in the Western Conference, who are Heat fans supposed to pull for? The San Antonio Spurs, who single-handedly ended the Big Three era in South Florida? Or the Golden State Warriors, the group who took the premier-super-team-in-the-NBA mantle away from Miami?
And what about in the East? The Boston Celtics? The… Cleveland Cavaliers??? Safe to say, neither of those are viable options.
So to make watching the playoffs just a bit more bearable, let’s break down one player from each team still fighting for a chance to lose to the Warriors, who will be a free agent this summer, and who the Heat could very well target to fill their 2017-18 roster.
Oh, and realistic options only. Let’s get to it.