A: First, I never said Gordon Hayward wasn't intriguing or deserving of free-agency consideration. What I said, and what I stand by, is that with where this Heat roster stands, I would not be in favor of $30 million plus for Gordon Hayward at the cost of every other option. The Heat's salary-cap space is roughly $37 million, and that's already not including Ellington's $6.3 million option. This is not a roster that is one player away. So if Gordon Hayward . . . then no James Johnson or Dion Waiters. You can talk all you want about sacrifice, and you can talk yourself into an avenue to unload McRoberts' final season that likely is not happening, but you still come back to $37 million in working cap space, enough, at least arguably to retain Johnson, Waiters, Ellington and Willie Reed -- or to sign Hayward and perhaps add a mid-level talent. Just because a player can command a max salary, which clearly will be the case in this NBA inflated economy with Hayward, doesn't mean that the player is worth the maximum. Put it this way: If LeBron James, Russell Westbrook, Kevin Durant, Steph Curry, James Harden and Kawhi Leonard are worth the maximum, is Gordon Hayward worth that same salary? That is the point I have been trying to make.