“I would not say I was ever close to leaving,” Haslem said of his free agency. “Always being optimistic and taking a look at my options was something I owed to myself and I owed to my family. That is what I did every time. But it never seemed like the right situation, the right fit. When I look back on the legacy I was trying to create, the opportunities that came before me just were not worth the risk to the legacy I was trying to leave.”