A: Or could they? Look, I can't sit here and say I'm not stunned about how little it took for the Thunder to land George, at the mere cost of Victor Oladipo and Domantas Sabonis. For days, the thought here was the Heat couldn't get into the George bidding because they didn't have draft picks to offer. As it turns out, no draft picks were involved in the deal. So the untold story becomes how much, if much at all, the Heat were willing to offer. Clearly, the overriding concern in the process was that any detour for George was going to be for a single season, eventually to land with the Lakers a year from now. Against that backdrop, it well could be that the Heat were not willing to put Justise Winslow into a deal, as Pat Riley insisted during his season-ending media session. So if you're not dangling Hassan Whiteside, Goran Dragic and Winslow, and if you're unable to deal your impending free agents, such as James Johnson and Dion Waiters, what exactly was left for the Heat to package? For as limited as the Thunder package was, it still trumped anything involving Tyler Johnson, Josh Richardson and any other Heat spare parts. So, in the end, it could be argued that the Heat chose not to offer as much as the Thunder, and that Pat stood pat.