Originally Posted by
SneakerHeathen
Originally Posted by aepps20
I thought they couldn't afford to keep Beasley?
You're right, his $4.9 million dollar contract HAD to be shipped off in order to give the Bosh, Wade and James as much money as possible
....
Point blank, they could have all taken a greater pay-cut if they REALLY wanted fam on their squad. Miami facilitated James's insecurity by shipping Beasley.
4.9 mill divided between 3 guys is about 1.7 mill, Beasley's contract is up at the end of next season. The Heatles would have had to only give up about 2 mill each to keep Beasley for two seasons. Don't tell me that Beasley isn't worth much more to the Heat than anyone they can sign for the MLE this offseason or last (Mike Miller
).
Furthermore had the Heatles taken the pay cut and wanted to keep Beasley, they would have still been under the hard cap and they would have the MLE to play with to go get Killer Miller (
).