Consider this for the San Antonio Spurs: As Zach Lowe wrote in his weekly '10 Things' column earlier this week, the Miami Heat are a really good basketball team, but are one stretch forward away from becoming a legitimate title contender.

“But I wonder if Miami has a more pressing need for a stretch power forward with some defensive chops to fill that [Justise Winslow/Derrick Jones Jr./James Johnson] slot.”

With Butler's recent back injury, the Heat have been using a poo-poo platter of forward options to fill his role as a scoring forward, but with the Heat don't look right in crunch time and could use a scoring pick to alleviate the pain and keep opposing defenses honest.

Even when Butler fully recovers and settles back into the swing of things, the Heat could use a more reliable scoring big man in the role that Meyers Leonard, Winslow and Kelly Olynyk have been holding down all season.

Adding San Antonio forward Lamarcus Aldridge could open up a new wrinkle to an already-deep Miami Heat offense, as with the Heat sitting at 28-12 with a legitimate chance to take the Eastern conference, a frontcourt of Aldridge and Bam Adebayo could be a force to be reckon with.

The Heat have a lot of offensive playmakers who clog up the lane, particularly Butler, Adebayo and Kendrick Nunn. With Aldridge's newfound three-point stroke, which has been going in at a career-best 43.7 percent this season, he can contribute to the Heat offense without clogging the lane even further.

Additionally, as fun as this Heat team with the youth movement of Nunn, Tyler Herro and Duncan Robinson playing significant minutes, the former seven-time All-Star could provide Miami with some much needed veteran experience, which should come in handy come playoff time.

While this trade could hurt the Spurs' race to the highly-coveted eight seed in the Western Conference, it would be nice in the long run to get Aldridge's contract off their books and acquire the young talent Miami would inevitably include in the trade.

When one star leaves in Aldridge, another could rise to the occassion in DeRozan, who is shooting a career-high 54.1 percent on all field goals and could be the one veteran leader with a bevvy of young talent.

Speaking of young talent, with Dejounte Murray, Derrick White and Jakob Poeltl on the floor, the Spurs could sneakily have one of the best defensive young cores in the NBA, who can give Spurs fans the energy that they have been lacking since the hay days of Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobli and Tony Parker.

The Spurs are at a bit of a crossroads approaching the trade deadline: they can either go all-in and try to make a playoff game, or get rid of one of their former All-Stars in a pseudo-rebuild infused with their own youth movement.

Spurs fans who are thinking with their head, and not their heart, should love the latter. Aldridge makes the Heat a legitimate title contender while simultaneously giving the Spurs the cap space to fully embrace their young core.