Miami Heat: 3 Decisions They Probably Wish They Could Undo

Miami Heat: Of All Regrets, This One Will Probably Always Haunt Them The Most

This one is the one that really hurts. There shouldn’t be a moment ever when something like this happens.

The Chicago Bulls didn’t just let  Michael Jordan walk, they put up a heck of a fight. Tom Brady spent 20 plus odd years in New England and even when Bill Belichick did let him go, he, too, has since been proven wrong.

The point of it all is this. You don’t let the greatest player in franchise history… just walk away and especially over money.

Letting Flash Get Away… Even Though He Returned

For what was, apparently, a few million dollars in the grand scheme of things, the Miami Heat and Pat Riley, to be fair and completely honest, let the greatest player in franchise history, one Dwyane Wade, leave to sign with the Chicago Bulls.

While it’s apart of the list, to say that the content must go but also that this isn’t news, because Pat Riley has said it himself! Here is what he had to say on the topic back in July of 2016.

"“What happened with Dwyane floored me,” Riley said. “I’m going to miss the fact of what I might have had planned for him and his future and how I saw the end and my thought process in how I could see his end here with the Heat… It’s my responsibility to sort of make that happen. I didn’t make it happen. Dwyane left, and the buck stops here.” Riley said that he should have pulled out all the stops to re-sign the player that has been the face of the franchise, but said the Heat will move on. “I have great regret I didn’t put myself in the middle of it and immerse myself in the middle of it and get in a canoe and paddle to the Mediterranean if I had to, be in New York when he arrived on [July 6] and greet him at the airport,” Riley said. “I wasn’t there in the middle of the negotiation, and that’s my job. It’s not going to be the same without him. We will forge ahead.”"

They didn’t move on though, as two years later in February of 2018, the, forever, son of Wade County… came home. This is also where he finished his career, retiring from pro basketball in April of 2019.

It finished how it started. It finished the right way.

That still doesn’t mean that it wasn’t a regrettable decision and as indicative by Riley’s comments, one they wish they hadn’t of made. While this is the biggest of the three mentioned, they all were pretty questionable and especially in hindsight.

However, that’s always 20/20, as they say. Hopefully, none of the recent or current decisions make this list in a few seasons, as the Miami Heat are currently constructed to win a title… or a few.