This isn’t a function of the end of the season or declining NBA veteran fortunes, it’s just the appropriate thing to wonder about as the NBA Finals churn along. The Miami Heat were built around three superstars working for massive contracts through their basketball prime. As a result, the team had to sign a series of role players working past their respective primes to manageable contracts, hoping as pen was put to paper in July for those helpers to put a Finals game away with a dagger from the corner some 11 months later Shane Battier and Mike Miller are two members of that second stratum. And in two interviews given over the weekend, the two Heat forwards are offering distinctly different versions of their futures in the NBA. Battier, whose contract expires in the summer of 2014, is just about signing off on making 2013-14 his final year. From a talk with USA Today’s Alex Kennedy : "I think I have one more year," Battier told USA TODAY Sports.
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