{"id":1036,"date":"2013-07-16T15:41:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T19:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2022-07-24T17:22:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T21:22:03","slug":"miami-heat-waive-mike-miller-via-amnesty-clause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/2013\/07\/16\/miami-heat-waive-mike-miller-via-amnesty-clause\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Heat waive Mike Miller via amnesty clause"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1041\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1041\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1041\" alt=\"Source: Kevin C. Cox\/Getty Images North America\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/07\/mikemiller.jpg\" width=\"675\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/07\/mikemiller.jpg 675w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/07\/mikemiller-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Kevin C. Cox\/Getty Images North America<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Miami Heat have waived veteran Mike Miller via the amnesty clause. Miller, 33, had two years and $12.8 million remaining on his contract.<\/p>\n<p>By getting rid of Miller the Heat will lower their luxury tax bill but still be responsible for Miller\u2019s contract.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>OFFICIAL: The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MiamiHEAT\">@MiamiHEAT<\/a> have waived Mike Miller per the NBA&#8217;s Amnesty provision.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Miami HEAT (@MiamiHEAT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MiamiHEAT\/statuses\/357214208422715394\">July 16, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Miller was a key part of the Heat\u2019s attack in the playoffs connect with 16-of-36 shots from the 3-point line. Any team signing Miller will likely be offering the minimum since he is already getting paid from the Heat.<\/p>\n<p>A former fifth-overall pick in 2000, Miller had spent the last three seasons with the Heat seeing his minutes per game reach a career low last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Miami Heat have waived veteran Mike Miller via the amnesty clause. Miller, 33, had two years and $12.8 million remaining on his contract. By getting rid of Miller the Heat will lower their luxury tax bill but still be responsible for Miller\u2019s contract. OFFICIAL: The @MiamiHEAT have waived Mike Miller per the NBA&#8217;s Amnesty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[17],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2034,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions\/2034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}