The exercise ahead of the NBA trading deadline, which this season comes at 3 p.m. Thursday, typically is to get a read on what a team is looking to add.
That is what makes the Miami Heat’s position this time around atypical. As much as anything, the starting point likely will be what Pat Riley and Andy Elisburg are looking to shed.
With the Heat so hard up against the NBA’s punitive luxury tax that they currently can afford to neither fill their vacant 15th roster spot nor convert the two-way contract of Orlando Robinson to a standard, playoff-eligible deal, Thursday appears to be more about offloading.
