The Miami Heat and Chris Bosh are moving close to resolution that will allow the team to shed Bosh's salary from its salary cap without concern of that figure returning to its cap, parties familiar with the proceedings confirmed to the Sun Sentinel.

Bosh was sidelined this past season when he failed a preseason physical, after missing the second half of the previous two seasons due to blood clots. The Heat, NBA and National Basketball Players Association have been working toward a resolution that bridges the collective-bargaining agreement that expires June 30 and the one that goes into place on July 1.

Under the CBA in place until June 30, if Bosh returns to the league his salary-cap hit could be reinstated to the Heat's ledger over the remaining term of his contract, which expires after the 2018-19 season. However, under the CBA that goes into place July 1, if a medical panel comes to an agreement that it is no longer considered safe for Bosh to continue his career, that would end the risk of Bosh's cap charge or luxury-tax hit returning to the Heat's book.

The approach with Bosh, 33, from the league and union apparently is a one-time allocation, since Bosh’s preexisting condition comes amid the transition into new work rules.

With an agreement expected soon, that would allow the Heat to go into the June 22 NBA draft with certainly about its cap situation, allowing for transactions in advance of the new cap calendar that starts on July 1.

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Bosh is guaranteed his remaining $25.3 million salary for 2017-18 and $26.8 million salary for 2018-19, much of it covered by insurance. The final agreement between Bosh, the NBA and the Players Association will not change that payout.

The Heat had the right to apply to exclude Bosh's salary from their salary cap on Feb. 9, the one-year anniversary from his last game played.

While the delay prevented the Heat from utilizing reclaimed cap space either at the Feb. 23 NBA trading deadline or the March 1 buyout deadline, the amicable negotiations allow the Heat to enter the July 1 start of free agency positioned with about $37 million in salary-cap space -- and without concern of future salary-cap space being compromised by a possible Bosh return to another team.

Bosh is under the NBA-maximum contract he signed in the 2014 offseason in the immediate wake of LeBron James' free-agency departure to the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Under the working agreement in place until June 30, Bosh's salary could have been restored to the salary cap in any season he played 25 combined regular-season and playoff games. By the Heat waiting until after March 1 to negotiate a resolution, it made Bosh ineligible to appear in the current postseason for another team, removing the longshot risk of Bosh playing this season.

Before training camp, Bosh said he had research proving he could play NBA basketball without creating a dire physical risk, citing NHL players, such as former Florida Panthers wing Tomas Fleischmann, who have played after multiple blood-clot incidents.

"This is nothing that is new. It's not groundbreaking," he said at the time. "We're not reinventing the wheel here. It's not standard, but it's been proven."

He then failed his preseason physical.

In an ensuing video post, Bosh revealed that the Heat medical staff told him in February 2016 that they did not expect him to be able to continue his career.

"Seeing the team doctors," Bosh said in that post, "they told me that my season's over, my career is probably over and, yeah, this just happens, this is just how it is. I felt right away that I was written off."

Then came a preseason statement from Heat President Pat Riley, in the wake of Bosh's failed physical, saying the Heat no longer were working toward Bosh's return. Bosh said that statement did not come with advance notice.

"I didn't see my career in Miami ending like this," Bosh said in an installment of his Rebuilt video series on the Uninterrupted digital network. "I didn't get a call or a text or anything like that. I mean, it's a business. We understand that. We always say those things. But if you say certain things to the person and you win championships and you have these moments, you don't want to find things out through the media."

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Riley, had, in fact, reached out directly to Bosh in advance of Bosh posting that message.

Since those video posts, Bosh's Heat teammates have spoken of a player more at peace with his situation, whether that involves NBA basketball or not.

"What he had to go through I'm sure was a shock and I'm still praying that he has the chance to come out and finish and play the game he loves and end it the right way," Heat captain Udonis Haslem told the Sun Sentinel earlier this month.

Haslem said Bosh's NBA future has not been a topic of their recent discussions.

"Not really," he said. "If he brings it up then we could talk about it, but then I'm not going to bring it up."

Unlike the previous two seasons, after Bosh first experienced blood clots at the 2015 All-Star break and again at the 2016 All-Star break, Bosh was not around this team this past season, although he has interacted socially with current and previous Heat teammates, including Haslem, Justise Winslow, Josh Richardson, Dwyane Wade and James.

At the conclusion of his video series, Bosh said in October: "We're going to go everywhere. We're going to do everything that it takes to get back out there."

Bosh since has gone on to a series of non-playing ventures, including a recurring studio role on TNT's NBA coverage on Monday nights that ended in April.