The Miami Heat are working to ensure that they still land Jimmy Butler this offseason despite their most recent deal with the Philadelphia 76ers and Dallas Mavericks falling apart.
According to reports, the Heat are looking for another team to keep the deal in place but most likely with different players in the mix to make it work.
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Miami and Philadelphia are determined to find a new third team to facilitate their Jimmy Butler sign-and-trade and ensure its completion, league sources say, after the apparent collapse of the teams' talks with Dallas
— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) July 1, 2019
Marc Stein of the New York Times added that Goran Dragic is one of the players that is reportedly being shopped around to free up the cap space needed for the Butler sign-and-trade to be finally completed.
Goran Dragic is the player Miami is determined to move to make the Butler salary-cap math happen and believes it can find a workable trade construction elsewhere that ultimately lands Butler with the Heat on a four-year, $142 million max deal
— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) July 1, 2019
According to The Athletic’s Tom Cato, it was a misunderstanding of the moving parts that were included in the deal with the Mavs that led to the collapse of the agreement with the Heat.
https://twitter.com/tim_cato/status/1145551505086406657?s=17&fbclid=IwAR3QZpWNcWsneqhc6koET-wGyZONW-MccdGRMdB-anmo62iayDBhl_M9g1w
But the opportunity to land Butler is still in play for the Heat as long as they get the deal done as soon as possible.
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