About to turn 42 and chaining the seventh season without representative minutes on the track, it seems that Udonis Haslem is heading to sign his umpteenth contract for the veteran’s minimum. At least that is the intention of its president Pat Riley, who has been totally clear about it. “We want him to be in this organization as long as he wants to be” He said the president of the Heat.
Since 2015, Haslem has been more of a member of the coaching staff than a player. The figure of him is transcendental for representing a link of weight in the chain of command that is built from Pat Riley to the staff through Erik Spoelstra. In this idea of marked hierarchy, the Miami Heat give importance to Udonis not ceasing to play his role from the eyes of a player. Something that also interests the veteran center because, accepting another position, his salary would be drastically reduced.
However, Haslem intends things to be a little different next season. At the end of the campaign that is still in force, the player declared that he wanted to play significant minutes. The same thing was raised to Riley as a potential problem in the management of his 42-year-old pupil. “I love him to death. IF that is what he wants I will sit down and discuss it with him. There is Haslem for a while.
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