Where do the Heat go from here?

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The Miami Heat are in an awkward situation. Pat Riley locked this team into a core lacking a superstar in the hopes that he could package assets together and acquire a player like Kawhi Leonard. Then Dion Waiters got injured, Hassan Whiteside torpedoed his trade value and Goran Dragic is on the wrong side of 31. The players Riley would most like to trade are the ones least likely to bring back value. This leaves the Heat in limbo between a promising core of young players: Josh Richardson, Justise Winslow, Bam Adebayo and a productive but aging core of veterans: Dragic, Whiteside, James Johnson, and Dwyane Wade. Those two groups together can be a playoff team, and maybe even win a series, but

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