Different ways the Heat can go during free agency

We all know Pat Riley wants to build a dynasty and most know he has the know how in making it all happen. All he has to do if use a little bit of his what I call " Riles magic" to persuade the players he craves. The biggest question of all is how can this all be accomplished within the salary cap? One way is by bringing in two max players and what I call a "reduced max player" being a player willing to take a hit in pay.

Another way is using a team by way of sign and trade by shipping out a player such as Michael Beasley and taking another team to add on baggage by absorbing another contract. There are other scenarios that can be accomplished by mixing players and choosing which you are willing to part with.  To be honest there are possibly more than ten different ways this team could be built but we are not going begin to explain every single one because we would be here all night if we did.

Lets say if we decided to make all our free agents available with the exception of Wade and find a team under the cap that can take on D-Cook's $2mil+, Beasley's almost $5mil and say you throw our 1st round pick in exchange for compensation that wouldn't affect the cap until next year like a 2011 or 2012 draft pick. In reality we can't really give up Beasley for cheap unless we can make sure what we can get within cap space but it would have to be substantial.

If we were to give up all our free agents except for D-Wade then that deal D-Cook/the 1st pick/Beas move would leave us with close to $7mil committed past D-Wade's cap hit. J-Jones $2mil buyout would almost require some team to pick up his contract before free agency begins but its more than likely that its not gonna happen. Super Mario is still on rookie pay at around $850k or so and then we have Joel who is making almost the same amount if he opts in with his players option, you add the require cap hits to fill the roster which would be around $3.4 mil for about seven players.

Now if we go by the cap, which sits around $56mil, that would leave us with about $49mil to spend for next season. We might as well go ahead and subtract the almost $17mil D-Wade is gonna get, which then leaves us with about $32mil to play with. If we were to get lets say LeBron and Bosh to play here, their max deals would be about a mil over the $32mil we would have left. To make that happen then we must deal Super Mario and Joel on top of some other moves to get some breathing room.

If we were to try to make a LeBron, Amare combination it would be well over $50mil and would mean that one of them would have to accept a pay cut which would prob be unlikely to make it under the cap.

If we were to ship out Beas, D-Cook and the 1st pick but keep Super Mario and Joel we would have almost $50mil to play with. Then we could go with say Bosh and Joe Johnson would be around $49mil.

If we were to ship out Beas, D-Cook and the 1st pick but keep Super Mario and Joel, then we could go with Bosh and Rudy Gay that's if Memphis doesn't match an offer sheet. This would keep us around $46mil or go with a Joe Johnson/Booz combo would keep us around $48mil. But we or lets say I prefer Bosh or Amare over Booz any day of the week. If we were to go and try sign and trades would give us more room to play but we don't have anyone worth any thing except of in reality D-Wade. At the end of the day the most realistic deal would be an Amare, JJ combo in the event we cant get LeBron to sign here.

At the end of all the madness that is of free agency by bringing in 3 high quality stars. Then we would have to fill out the rest of the team with minimum players like keeping Arroyo, Jamaal, Super Mario and Joel...maybe even Raja. For those who would be asking how does Udonis fit into all of this well sadly he doesn't because he would be demand too much to be able make a 3-star rotation happen.