Heat president Pat Riley regrets not giving Dwyane Wade a max contract in 2014
by Ashish MathurApril 9, 2019
Miami Heat president Pat Riley regrets not giving Dwyane Wade a max contract
in the summer of 2014 after LeBron James left South Beach to go back to the
Cleveland Cavaliers.
2014年夏天，LeBron James离开热火回到骑士。
热火总裁Pat Riley近日接受访问，后悔当时没有开给Dwyane Wade顶薪合约。
After James left, Riley and the Heat gave Wade a two-year, $31.125 million
deal. Wade left the Heat in the summer of 2016 and signed with his hometown
Chicago Bulls.
就在LeBron离开热火后，热火开给Wade两年3110万的合约。
两年后的夏天，Wade离开热火，回到家乡与公牛签约。
Riley says had he given Wade a max contract in 2014, the Miami icon would
have never left for the Bulls:
Riley说，如果他当时开给Wade顶薪的话，
这位热火队魂将会永留迈阿密而不是前往芝加哥。
“The biggest mistake that I made was not to just recommend that we sign
Dwyane and Chris to max contracts as soon as LeBron left, and let’s build
around them,” Riley told Anthony Chiang of the Miami Herald. “What we
wanted to do and what I wanted to do was not to use Dwyane, but to use the
opportunity to pay him and at the same time bring in another superstar.
在接受《Miami Herald》Anthony Chiang采访时，
Riley表示：
“我这辈子犯的最大错误，就是在LeBron离开后，没有同时给Wade & Bosh顶薪，
然后围绕他们建队。我们当时不是想利用Wade，而是想利用给他合约的机会，
再趁机签下另一个超级球星。”
“We should have just bit the bullet. He was our franchise guy. We had just
been to the Finals four years in a row. They had already played the give-back
game, Chris, LeBron and Dwyane to keep Mike Miller and to keep Udonis Haslem.
So this was the time now to pay both of them. And we paid Chris and we did
not pay Dwyane. If we had done that, he would have been here. He would have
never left. This would have been his last year [on the contract], his fifth
year.”
“我们当时应该咬紧牙关，他可是我们的队魂。
我们刚连续四年杀进总决赛，他们已经为球队降过薪了，
Bosh、LeBron、Wade三人当时为了留下Mike Miller & Udonis Haslem而降薪。
所以当时是个很好的机会去补偿他们两个，但我们最终只给Bosh顶薪而没有给Wade，
如果我们当时给了，那么Wade就会永远留在这了，他绝对不会离开，
今年也将会是他合约的最后一年，他的第五年。”
Wade has never been the highest-paid player on the Heat at any point during
his legendary career with the franchise.
在Wade的职业生涯里，Wade从未成为热火队中薪水最高的那个人。
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