10 Reasons Why Dwyane Wade Should Take a Pay Cut

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3. Salary Cap

Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade

The Heat will benefit from the new media deal that kicks in for the league heading into the 2016-17 season. During that offseason, the salary cap of each team will skyrocket from $67 million to roughly $89 million. While that extra dough certainly helps matters such as this one, the Heat already have $23 million on average tied up to Chris Bosh over the next four seasons.

If the organization gives Wade around $20 million on average, it will have roughly half of its salary cap devoted to two players that are past their prime.

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D.J. Siddiqi grew up in the heart of South Florida in Broward County. Growing up in South Florida during the late 90's and 2000's, D.J. witnessed the Pat Riley years where the Miami Heat faced off with the New York Knicks all the way to the painful late 2000's seasons where the Heat were a one-man team with Dwyane Wade. D.J. has closely followed the Heat over the past decade-and-a-half, and unfortunately witnessed Game 2 of the 2011 NBA Finals in person when the Dallas Mavericks overcame a 15-point deficit to knock off the Heat. D.J. has writing experience as a columnist with sites such as Bleacher Report and Rant Sports, and he is proud to bring his knowledge of the Heat and the NBA to Heat Nation.