01-05-2025, 10:30 PM
(01-05-2025, 12:46 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: Bobby Marks (@BobbyMarks42)
If the Heat let the Jimmy Butler $48.8M salary this season expire (that is assuming he walks away from $52.4M), they would be well positioned to add to their roster this summer.
Miami would be $47M below the tax and have access to:
- $14M non-tax midlevel
- $5.1M biannual
I just don’t think Jimmy Butler is going to find any offer approaching the $52m option he holds for next year.
So any team that trades for him is basically getting a high-priced rental. And he’s pretty much guaranteed to pick up his option.
So who would want him?
Maybe a contender, who just needs that one guy to put them over the top.
A contender with a couple of bad contracts, and maybe draft capital to send back as a sweetener.