Miami Heat: 3 FA Targets That Signed For Less – Reggie Jackson
This last guy really set it off in the NBA Playoffs. He earned, at least, $15 million per year and the deal he got to stay where he wanted to be reflects it.
Reggie Jackson
On a near-minimum deal, if not squarely there, for the Clippers last season, Reggie Jackson put his worth on full display in the playoff run that just finished. He was their second-best player for most of the run, in fact, anytime Kawhi Leonard wasn’t on the floor to knock the pecking order down by one.
Basically, with Kawhi, it goes him, Paul George, and then everyone else. Without Kawhi, it went PG, then Reggie, then everyone else.
He was a huge part of why they were able to do what they did in the postseason, sans Kawhi for a good bit of it. Reggie could have easily gotten $15 million on the open market.
The Miami Heat needed a three-level scorer, that also just so happens to be a point guard, if at all possible, and Reggie Jackson was all of that. Those guys, Kyle Lowry and Chris Paul, made $30 million this offseason.
This isn’t saying that Reggie could have gotten that money, but he does what they do and is much more physically gifted about it! Where he signed for $11 million annually to return to the Clippers, the team he really wanted to remain with, he could have gotten, at least, half of what Lowry and Paul got.
That would have only been four more million per year than he got and something he could have certainly gotten outside of LA. You can be sure of that, as if they gave him that much, someone would have maybe even given him $20 million.
Either way it stands, the Miami Heat got better. Could the Miami Heat have maybe benefited from a guy or two here… sure.
They didn’t land any of them though. It’s a darn shame too, cause they all under-signed on their latest deals.