Jeremy Lin To Miami Heat Untrue Due To Salary Constraints

Hold your horses, Los Angeles Lakers point guard Jeremy Lin is not taking his talents to South Beach. The development comes after Latin Post and the Inquistr reported that the Miami Heat might be interested to take on the services of the suddenly out of the starting line-up Lin due to the team's lack of ball handling skills and after ranking 27^th in assists per game.

The said stipulations appear to be untrue given the huge $8.3 million salary of the Harvard standout. Even if Lin is basically an expiring contract, the Heat who is already at the tax threshold would have to send out equal salary just to match the Lakers offer. To get the Lin price tag, the Heat would have to send out a combination of Josh McRoberts or Luol Deng to complete the deal, a line of thinking, which was first quashed by Wes Goldberg of AllUCanHeat.

Deng is basically an untouchable given the lack of any productive players in his position. Danny Granger and Shwane Williams take the scrap minutes but nobody can replicate the grunt work that Deng has put forward this early in the season. McRoberts is a candidate but his injuries have limited the team from gauging his ability to mesh with Bosh in the frontcourt. With the multitude of guards in the Heat roster such as Norris Cole, Mario Chalmers and Shabazz Napier, it would be inexplicable to trade for another ball handler without giving up any of the three. And to say that the team would fully hand the ball handling reigns to Lin would be absurd given that a certain Dwayne Wade is still on the team.

For the Lakers, dealing Lin would have to come at the right contract or if not an equal talent. Basically at this point, Lin is viewed as an expiring contract that could net them the free agent they could court by the summer of 2015. For now many view the trade with the Rockets as a success for the Lakers given they got a first round pick just to take in Lin's salary. While the man who started "Linsanity" in New York has not tempered expectations with his 10 points and 4 assists per game statistical line, his contract is certainly not immovable. For now, the Lakers will be better off standing pat and losing more games, as Laker great Magic Johnson suggested to net them a top five pick (beyond that is surrendered to the Phoenix Suns due to the Steve Nash trade).The dismal play of Lin may just help the team in what many believe to be a "stealth taking" job.