Heat owner Micky Arison revealed Thursday that he voted against the league's new collective-bargaining agreement. Arison said he cast his vote only after the deal already had the required majority.
"I did everything I could, from both the owners' side and the players' side to get a deal done as quick as possible, to miss as few games as possible," Arison said. "So you've got to connect that to our vote."
It is the revenue-sharing element that had Arison in opposition.
"While I did everything I could behind the scenes, and some not-so-behind-the-scenes, to get playing by Christmas," Arison said, "when you come down to it, financially, it's important to understand that revenue sharing and the CBA together, it's a tough financial deal for us, particularly the revenue-sharing piece of it, the way it's structured.
"For us to have to pay revenue sharing to larger-market teams was disturbing, and we will. And so that was a kind of protest vote on our part."