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Miami Heat: Complete 2017 offseason grades

By Jordan Treske

MIAMI, FL - JUNE 23: Miami Heat President, Pat Riley and head coach, Erik Spoelstra introduce Bam Adebayo during a press conference at American Airlines Arena on June 23, 2017 in Miami, Florida. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory copyright notice: Copyright NBAE 2017 (Photo by Issac Baldizon/NBAE via Getty Images)
MIAMI, FL - JUNE 23: Miami Heat President, Pat Riley and head coach, Erik Spoelstra introduce Bam Adebayo during a press conference at American Airlines Arena on June 23, 2017 in Miami, Florida. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory copyright notice: Copyright NBAE 2017 (Photo by Issac Baldizon/NBAE via Getty Images) /
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Overall

By deciding to run it all back for the next few years to come, the Miami Heat certainly took an approach that they hope will yield them immediate success.

After what they were able to accomplish at the start of the calendar year onward, there’s no knocking the Heat’s overall competitive spirit and the program they’ve established that has clearly affected the performance and well-being of any player that has been on their roster for the better.

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But as it stands now, the Heat don’t have that singular star to build around that could take them back to the heights they reached in the earlier part of this decade.

That’s not a bad thing by any means and there’s always the possibility that they could throw their hat in the ring if another star player potentially pushes a move out of their current home.

However, that’s a much harder thing to achieve with the flexibility they relinquished by signing the likes of Johnson, Olynyk and Waiters to the deals they agreed to in the first few days of free agency.

Could any player on this roster break through the mold and go on to become a legitimate star? There’s always a chance that could happen and it would be very fitting if that were to come to fruition, as it’d be keeping with last year’s theme.

No matter how that all shakes out, the Heat stand to leapfrog their way into the top half of a depleted Eastern Conference. That is if their winning ways from the second half of last year translate over into this upcoming season.

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Where they go beyond that, much less who becomes something far more valuable than they currently are, stands as the biggest question mark that looms over the Heat franchise as a whole.

Final Grade: C+

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