10 Most Disappointing Players in Miami Heat History

The Miami Heat have had their fair share of entertaining and popular teammates.

Rony Seikaly and Glen Rice started it it all in the beginning, Alonzo Mourning and Tim Hardaway brought the team into the limelight, Dwyane Wade and Shaquille O'Neal took the franchise to their peak, and now Wade, LeBron James, and Chris Bosh are attempting to write their own script and leave their mark on the face of this developing franchise.

However, with every player that has led the franchise there have been a few that have nonetheless disappointed the franchise with how underwhelming they performed during their short time here. Rather than speaking about those quality players some more, let's speak of those players that caused a minor interruption during the franchises run.

It's about to get really ugly. I apologize in advance for the memories I'm about to bring up.

10. Rafer Alston's Second Tenure

With Carlos Arroyo and Mario Chalmers struggling to run the point at an efficient rate, the Heat were desperate for answers. They looked far and wide for a point guard until coming across former point guard Rafer Alston.

Alston was with the team for the 2003-'04 season and had done well off the bench as the teams spark and main three-point threat. He averaged 10 points per, hit two three-pointers per game, and nailed 37 percent of his three-pointers.

When signing Alston for a second time, the Heat were expecting that same shooters touch. Implemented at starting point guard, he struggled for the duration of his time there as he went on to average only seven points on a dismal 36 percent from the field to go along with three assists per. He did manage to connect on 37 percent of his three-pointers again, but there was no point considering they could have got Chalmers or Arroyo to produce nearly the same.

The Heat would then suspend Alston after 25 games for failing to communicate with the team. He hasn't been seen on an NBA court since.

9. Clarence Weatherspoon

After impressing with the Philadelphia 76ers for the first five years of his career, the Miami Heat were convinced that they had to get Clarence Weatherspoon on their squad once he became a free agent.

Instead of obtaining the player that had averaged 18 points and 10 rebounds per in only his second season in the league, Weatherspoon would only play in 49 games in his first season with the Heat while going on to average eight points and five rebounds per. His second season wouldn't go too well either as Weatherspoon would continue to perform below expectations by averaging seven points and six boards per off the bench.

Weatherspoon only averaged 20 minutes per on a few of the Miami Heat's top squads and would be traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers after only two seasons.

8. Dorell Wright

It's tough to label Dorell Wright as one of the Miami Heat's greatest disappointments since the organization never truly gave him a chance to prove himself.

Still, Wright could have proved to the organization as to why he deserved a spot instead of winning one by default as a member of the Golden State Warriors.

Wright was taken with the 19th pick out of high school in the 2004 draft and would go on to play only three games in his rookie season. He'd then go on to play in only 20 games during the championship season and wouldn't receive a great deal of playing time until the 15 win season when Wright averaged 25 minutes of playing time a night.

Even with the chance that the Heat offered him that season, Wright hardly showed any promise. He averaged eight points and five rebounds per and connected on 36 percent of his three-pointers before being sent back to the bench in the 2008-'09 season. 2010 would be his last chance as he would play in 72 games while averaging seven points and three boards per.

The Heat then allowed him to walk once he became a free agent. Wright would go on to lead the league in total three-pointers in his first year with the Warriors while averaging 16 points per.

7. Wayne Simien

It must be hurting LeBron James' ego a little more knowing that Wayne Simien has won a championship with the Miami Heat while he remains ringless.

After an impressive senior season at the University of Kansas where he was a member of the All-American First team after averaging 20 points and 11 boards per, the Heat decided to select the power forward with the 29th pick in the 2005 draft.

It was a mistake to take Simien in the first place considering that the Heat already had a plethora of big men with Udonis Haslem, Shaquille O'Neal, and Alonzo Mourning already taking up most of the playing time in the front court and it didn't help that Simien wasn't NBA ready. He played in 43 games, mostly for garbage minutes, and averaged only three points and two boards per in the 10 minutes of playing time that he did receive.

Simien would play in eight games the next season before being traded to Minnesota as a part of the deal that brought in Ricky Davis and Mark Blount.

He was recently seen playing in Spain before retiring and pursuing work in the field of religion.

6. Mike Bibby

Words cannot even begin to describe the overall disdain the Miami Heat fan base had for Mike Bibby by the end of the season.

There's a lot of could have's and would have's regarding the Heat's Finals loss, but the chances are likely that the Heat could be the one with the title had Bibby not forgotten how to make jump shots during the entirety of the teams postseason run.

Much like how Rafer Alston was signed to offer some consistency to the 1 spot, the Heat signed Mike Bibby for some veteran leadership and perimeter consistency. After all, he had played in the league for more than a decade and was regarded as one of the league's most consistent jump shooters. Bibby's a career 38 percent three-point shooter and had been a member of some of the leagues better teams, including the Sacramento Kings of the early 2000s.

Bibby was efficient during the regular season as he took over the starting job by the start of the postseason after averaging seven points per and 46 percent from beyond the arc. Once the postseason started however, we saw a completely different player as Bibby somehow forgot how to put the ball in the basket.

He connected on only 26 percent of his three-pointers for the duration of the postseason while connecting on 29 percent of his shots from beyond the arc in the NBA Finals. He finished with 19 points for the entire six game series with 14 of those points coming in the teams Game 2 loss.

5. Mark Blount

An absolute miserable signing by the Miami Heat when they traded for multi-dimensional center Mark Blount.

By multi-dimensional center, I mean he couldn't play defense, couldn't rebound despite being 7'0'', and couldn't consistently shoot either. Including Blount in the trade that also brought in Ricky Davis was just adding insult to injury for a Heat squad that was desperate for replacements to their quickly aging veterans.

Blount played one-and-a-half uneventful, depressing seasons with the Heat before being traded back to the Minnesota Timberwolves and then retiring. He averaged eight points and four boards per in 69 games during his first year with the team, 46 of which he started in, and hardly made any positive impact for the Heat. He would only play 20 games the next year before being traded after averaging four points and two rebounds per.

The Heat were expecting to receive a center that could stretch out the offense, since Blount was regarded as a three-point shooter, but instead they got an inconsistent shooter that couldn't play a lick of defense and couldn't rebound either.

Think Andrea Bargnani without a shot.

4. Smush Parker

As if the 2007-'08 season couldn't get bad enough, the Miami Heat front office made a signing that actually made it a whole lot worse.

Already in the midst of an abysmal season that would end 15-67, the Heat made a number of ridiculous signings with a number of D-Leaguers cracking the roster. Players like Kasib Powell and Stephen Lasme had turned into regular contributors for the Heat with Dwyane Wade, Shaquille O'Neal, and Udonis Haslem all sidelined for a great deal of time due to injuries.

All of the D-Leaguers that the Heat signed doesn't even compare to their most disappointing signing in former Los Angeles Lakers headache Smush Parker. The Lakers were pretty much forced to start Parker due to the lack of depth and they got production out of him when he averaged 11 points and three assists per in the two seasons that he spent there.

Apparently while there, Parker and superstar Kobe Bryant had some problems with each other. I think I'll back the five-time champion on this one.

After leaving Los Angeles, the Heat signed Parker and the team immediately regretted it. He only played in nine games, was a ball hog that should have never been, and averaged five points and two assists per before being waived due to a lack of production and an altercation with a valet over $12.

3. Harold Miner

If the Miami Heat were looking to draft a player that could jump high, they got it.

It's a shame that the NBA actually has more aspects to it than players that just jump high however. Some of these players actually require the skill of putting the ball in the basket, playing defense, and requiring some sort of court awareness. It's the perfect way to describe the Heat's first round selection in 1994 in Harold Miner, who had a very high vertical and not much more.

It also hurt that Miner dealt with a number of injuries that caused him to retire by the age of 24.

After three quality years at USC where he averaged 26 points and seven rebounds in his final season, the Heat decided to take Miner with the 13th pick. Nicknamed "Baby Jordan" for his impressive vertical and all-around game, Miner impressed with his hops by winning two Slam Dunk Championships.

However, after three less than impressive seasons where Miner failed to average anything more than 11 points or three rebounds, the Heat gave up and traded him to the Cleveland Cavaliers. He'd be released a few months later and wouldn't play in the NBA again.

2. Ricky Davis

Once the Miami Heat signed Ricky Davis prior to the start of the 2007-'08 season, they knew they were getting ready for a high draft pick for the 2008 draft.

The team expected Davis to shoulder some of the scoring load off of the oft-injured Dwyane Wade, but he didn't do much with his 43 percent shooting and 14 points per game. He did manage to average a career high of nearly two three-pointers per game on an impressive 41 percent from beyond the arc, but he didn't do much else besides play offense which the organization should have realized prior to signing him.

Davis was notorious for his selfish game play prior to joining the team and it showed with the Heat as he only averaged three assists per in 36 minutes of action a night. He only cared about how much he scored and would take any ill-advised shot just to prove that he could put the ball in the basket.

If only he cared that much about defense and distributing the ball then maybe the Heat wouldn't have won 15 games.

Davis recently signed a contract to play with Chorale Roanne Basket in France.

1. Michael Beasley

Take it in for a second, the Miami Heat were a few ping pong balls away from landing Derrick Rose with the first pick in the 2008 draft.

Instead, the Chicago Bulls managed to get the No. 1 pick despite having one of the lowest chances among the lottery teams to obtain that pick. Either way, the Bulls selected Rose and the Miami Heat were left with selecting Kansas State standout athlete Michael Beasley. Not too bad of a consolation prize considering Beasley had averaged 26 points and 12 boards per in the one season he spent at the college level.

Beasley came off the bench for the majority of his rookie season and did show some signs of promise, but was still an extremely raw player. He started at power forward next year and hardly showed any improvement after averaging 15 points and six rebounds per on a team that didn't have too many quality rebounders.

His shot selection was baffling at times, his defense was non-existent at some moments, and he didn't exactly fit the bill as a second option. There's no doubt that Beasley is an unbelievable athlete that's capable of being as pure a scorer as Carmelo Anthony or Kevin Durant and that's exactly why the Heat had to let him go this past off season.

Beasley's a first option and nothing more. He needs the ball in his hands to score or else he's aimlessly walking around and waiting for his teammates to either get the ball to him or for them to finish it themselves.