In order to complete the surprising Jimmy Butler trade, the Miami Heat have waived and stretched the contract of Ryan Anderson, per Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
Heat will waive and stretch Ryan Anderson to complete the Jimmy Butler trade, meaning $5.2 million cap hits in the 2020 and '21 offseasons.
— Ira Winderman (@IraHeatBeat) July 6, 2019
As you can see from Winderman’s tweet, the Heat are still responsible for paying the remainder of Anderson’s deal, but the financial ramifications will be spread out over the course of the next three seasons until 2021 – at which point Anderson’s titanic four-year, $80 million deal, signed with the Houston Rockets, will be league history.
Though his defense is questionable at best, one could see a role for Anderson as a super-deep spot-up shooter on a contending team such as the Lakers or Clippers due to the fact that the man can truly shoot a basketball.
One of the few players who can reasonably spot up from well beyond 30 feet on the basketball court and garner a defender, Anderson combines that range with height (6-foot-10) and size (240 pounds), making him a truly lethal spot-up weapon in the right system.
The 31-year-old, 11-year NBA veteran won the 2011-12 Most Improved Player award, and he has played for 6 different teams in his career – including both the Heat and Phoenix Suns last year.
Anderson is most likely best known for his exploits on the memorable Rockets teams between 2016 and 2018, in which he scored 11.6 points per game on 39.6 three-point shooting – serving as one of the main proponents of the team’s “threes and layups” ethos.
Only time will tell where Anderson signs, but it seems likely that he’ll get another chance somewhere.
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