The Miami Heat were all-in on 2010 for several years to be positioned for that free agency class, but they now are operating for either 2016 or 2017.

The Heat have interest in Kevin Durant just as they targeted LeBron James and Chris Bosh in 2010.

"You've got to really see the big picture in where you are," Riley said this past week in carefully scripted comments offered through the Heat's in-house media outlets. "From 2014 to this point, once LeBron left, we had some decisions to make. We had always been looking at 2016 and 2017. Just like back in 2006 we looked at 2010."

The salary cap will jump in 2016 and again in 2017. Russell Westbrook will be a free agent in the 2017 class.

"What happens in '16 and '17, are the next two years of being able to build this team back to a championship contender," Riley said. "That's our goal. That's my goal. That's my desire."