Miami Heat: Assessing Each Player’s Role for the 2015-16 Season

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Dwyane Wade

Dwyane Wade Miami Heat Shooting Guard

Wade enters his 13th season in Miami after signing a one-year deal worth $20 million.

While it’s not the long-term contract he coveted, the former Finals MVP received the pay raise he desired after opting out of his contract before the start of free agency.

Fans saw Wade enter the 2014-15 season with the expectation that he would be on the decline, when in reality, he played the best basketball he had in years. The departure of LeBron James seemed to give “Flash” some added motivation as he led the team with 21.5 points and ranked third in the Eastern Conference in points per game.

Though he will turn 34 years old in January, Wade is still considered the franchise player of this team.

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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.