"Waiving Rozier takes his cap hit from $26.6 million down to $24.9 million, saving Miami around $1.7 million. Going this route carves out enough room for the team to add Achiuwa or another big, and stay out of the tax. It also leaves the Heat with $24.9 million in entirely dead money on the books. While this is preferable to having waived-and-stretched Rozier, it's beyond limiting when looking at the prospect of potential midseason transactions."
"Right now, the 31-year-old's trade value exists exclusively as an expiring contract. No team is acquiring him with the hope he will help them, or with the intention of signing him to a new deal. Rozier represents cap relief in the face of sending out a more expensive and/or longer-term agreement. That scenario goes out the window if the Heat simply pay him to go away."
The Miami Heat may avoid major trade-deadline activity by refusing to enter the luxury tax and potentially waiving guard Terry Rozier. Waiving Rozier reduces his cap hit from $26.6 million to $24.9 million, freeing roughly $1.7 million to sign a minimum-salary big such as Precious Achiuwa while remaining below the tax. That move would convert Rozier into dead cap space and eliminate his value as a tradable expiring contract, constraining midseason trade flexibility. Miami retains other expirings like Norman Powell and potential expirings like Andrew Wiggins, but those players also provide on-court value that limits trade construction.
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