"Mike Miller gave an interview to the South Florida Sun Sentinel this week after he'd put his Palm Beach county mansion on the market just a year into his five-year contract with the Heat. On the face, you could say Miller couldn't really be in a hurry considering he's trying to make about a $3 million profit on the place and, despite it's lovely waterside setting and pool with swim up bar, real estate hasn't recovered that much.

The move is interesting more because Miller seems to be genuinely concerned that he Heat exercise the amnesty provision – the expected clause of a new collective bargaining agreement that would allow the team to cut a player and remove his contract from the salary cap, though the player would still get the money – on him.

"If anything happens with the amnesty, this is just going to be a business decision and I can respect that," Miller told the Sun Sentinel. "Teams will only get one opportunity to use it. I can respect that part of it."

Though the amnesty is sure to be a talking point with fans because it's a transaction and fans love transactions – see trade deadline and draft interest every year – it is not an easy decision for any team. First and foremost because the player still gets the checks. It is nice to have salary cap space and you may no longer see the player on the roster but the owner has to continue to sign the checks. That should be a guiding principle when evaluating all of these amnesty candidates. In Miller's case, he is owed $24 million over the next four years. "