Pat Riley has planned for the Miami Heat to be competitive this season and next season and then make a free agency splash in the summer of 2016, when the team can amass as much as $50 million in cap space if the new TV contracts result in the huge spike that's widely projected.
Dwyane Wade helped the Heat by taking a paycut in his recent contract and has been given no assurances of the team landing another star after losing LeBron James.
“I’m not really focused on waiting until 2016," Wade said. "I don’t know what that means. That’s their organization. They do what they want from that standpoint. I’m not involved in that. I’m a player. Whatever decision they make from a 2016 standpoint is on them. The only thing I can control is the decisions I make and what I do.
“Whoever is here, whatever we decide to do, you just want to be competitive. That’s all I ask for myself and for our guys.
“Nobody knows what’s going to happen in 2016; 2016, to me, is so far away and I hope people aren’t waiting on it thinking we’re going to land this quote, unquote Big Fish because it might not happen for you. No one knows if Riley is going to wait until 2016. It’s all speculation.”