Retired - Retired after 2023 season
- Birthdate: 06/09/1980
- Drafted (NBA): Undrafted, 2002
- Pre-draft team: Florida
- Country: USA
- Hand: Right
- Agent: -
| Date | League | Transaction |
|---|---|---|
| 16th August, 2002 | France | Signed a one year contract with Chalon-Sur-Saone. |
| 1st August, 2003 | NBA | Signed a partially guaranteed two year minimum salary contract with Miami. |
| 2nd August, 2005 | NBA | Re-signed by Miami to a five year, $30.2 million contract. |
| 12th July, 2010 | NBA | Re-signed by Miami to a five year, $20.3 million contract. Included player option for 2014/15. |
| 28th June, 2014 | NBA | Declined 2014/15 player option. |
| 14th July, 2014 | NBA | Re-signed by Miami to a two year, $5,586,940 contract. |
| 10th July, 2016 | NBA | Re-signed by Miami to a one year, $4 million contract. |
| 20th July, 2017 | NBA | Re-signed by Miami to a guaranteed one year minimum salary contract. |
| 10th September, 2018 | NBA | Re-signed by Miami to a guaranteed one year minimum salary contract. |
| 1998 - 2002 | Florida (NCAA) |
| July 2002 | Atllanta Hawks (Summer League) |
| August 2002 - June 2003 | Chalon-Sur-Saone (France) |
| July 2003 | Miami Heat (Summer League) |
| August 2003 - present | Miami Heat (NBA) |
June 29, 2017
Udonis Haslem
PF, 6’8, 235lbs, 37 years old, 14 years of experience
Haslem’s last contract over the last couple of years has mostly been a loyalty bonus rather than a playing contract. He has managed only 390 minutes across those two seasons, and contributes very little as a player any more except for solid rebounding. For whatever reason, this past season, he more than tripled his turnover percentage while playing half as many minutes as the one prior. Which, while more anomalous than meaningful, does speak to how small of sample sizes we are talking. Haslem’s playing career seems to have drawn to its natural end, and he should now begin the journey Juwan Howard began before him and join the bench as an assistant.
Player Plan: Expiring $4 million contract. No longer an NBA player.
January 5, 2014
The idea of a one-club man is a romanticised ideal in sports, yet one increasingly impossible to achieve in this heightened free agency era. Even Paul Pierce eventually got traded. However, it does occasionally happen, and Luol Deng is one of the few true veterans in this league to have spent his whole career with one team. Indeed, the only players to have been with their current teams longer than Deng has been with Chicago are Kobe Bryant, Dirk Nowitzki, Nick Collison, the Miami duo of Udonis Haslem and Dwyane Wade, and the Spurs trio of Parker, Ginobili and Duncan, while Jameer Nelson and Anderson Varejao are the only other 2004 draftees to have never left the team that first signed them. This kind of longevity, then, is rare - usually, one party is sufficiently disgruntled with the other by now to have moved on.
December 23, 2011
[...] It is also not true to say that Miami have done nothing this offseason. Battier betters any team he is on, Cole has a skill set to contribute what is otherwise not present on the roster and the return of Udonis Haslem gives Miami the rare and special gift of a big man who contributes on both ends of the court, while also defaulting Chris Bosh into playing a lot of center. That, in itself, is a sufficient Ilgauskas replacement.
Haslem’s return, though, seems to have been determined to be the extra piece that gets them over the top. Without any determinable key acquisitions to speak of, save for the solid but somewhat redundant Battier, Miami’s biggest offseason acquisition will be a guy they signed as an undrafted rookie eight years ago. That’s a lot of trust to place in a backup. If Miami is going to get over the hump, they’re going to have to do it with the team they already had, the one that wasn’t quite good enough.
August 12, 2010
After the Jones buyout came their renouncements. With the team option on Mario Chalmers exercised, the team promptly renounced everyone other than Dwyane Wade [sic] and Joel Anthony. This meant that 10 free agents from the previous season were renounced; Jermaine O'Neal, Quentin Richardson, Udonis Haslem, Dorell Wright, Yakhouba Diawara, Rafer Alston, Carlos Arroyo, Jamaal Magloire, Shavlik Randolph and Kenny Hasbrouck. Some free agents from previous seasons were also still clogging up cap space; namely, Alonzo Mourning, Steve Smith, John Wallace, Wang Zhi Zhi, Gary Payton, Bimbo Coles, Christian Laettner, and Shandon Anderson. In total, before these renouncements took place, Miami's free agent cap holds amounted to a total of $88,184,132, $24,166,800 alone was for Jermaine O'Neal.
August 12, 2010
To facilitate all this, Udonis Haslem had had to be renounced. So in order to keep him, as they so badly wanted to, Miami had to use that space on him. As was the case with the big three, it involved Haslem taking a discounted contract that was below his market value, yet with the incentive of the stars around him, maximum raises and a big arse trade kicker (more on that later), Haslem was persuaded to do so. He signed a five year deal starting at $3,500,000, using up the last of Miami's cap space in doing so. And they still only had six players under contract.