5 Bold Predictions for the Miami Heat This Season

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3. Chris Andersen Won’t Be Traded This Season

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Chris Andersen, along with Mario Chalmers, remain on the trade block as the Heat look to shed their luxury tax bill as much as possible.

Both players have one year left on their contracts, with Andersen at a $5 million cap figure and Chalmers at a $4.3 million cap hit.

Ideally speaking, Miami would like to get rid of both players. They would likely take anything in return when it pertains to trading both Andersen and Chalmers.

However, Andersen is 37 years old and has always been an extremely limited player. He is great in short spurts as a high energy guy, but his value as a player is only to a select few NBA clubs.

The veteran center is a non-factor on the offensive side of the ball, but can give you 15-to-20 minutes of straight-up hustle. The only value Andersen has is for teams that are contending for championships.

If the Heat are one of the elite teams in the NBA this season as expected, there is no way the organization is trading him to a rival like the Cleveland Cavaliers or Chicago Bulls.

Expect Andersen to remain a member of the Heat for the duration of the 2015-16 season.

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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.