Ranking the Miami Heat’s Biggest 2015 NBA Draft Needs

June 5th, 2015 by Adam Fromal Leave a reply »

The Miami Heat may be picking in the lottery of the 2015 NBA draft, but they aren't your typical lottery team. 

Throughout the 2014-15 campaign, they were plagued by injuries to nearly every piece of the puzzle, lowlighted by Chris Bosh discovering blood clots in his lungs and missing the entire second half of the season. But with everyone back in shape and Hassan Whiteside developing into one of the better centers in the Eastern Conference, this should be a strong, playoff-bound team in 2015-16, assuming Goran Dragic and Dwyane Wade both stay with the Heat.

What they'll do with their player options and subsequent free-agency stints is a discussion for another time, though. Even if the should-be-stellar starting five—Dragic, Wade, Luol Deng, Bosh and Whiteside—is in place, the Heat have a number of needs they must tackle before the beginning of the next go-round. 

One can be solved with the No. 10 pick, thanks to Miami getting lucky during the draft lottery and not having to convey its selection to the Philadelphia 76ers. Thirty choices later, the Heat will be back on the clock with the 10th pick of t ...

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