Majerle To Sign With Heat

Free agent Dan Majerle will sign a three-year, $8 million deal with the Miami Heat, a team he rebuffed just last week because he wanted to return to the Phoenix Suns.

Majerle arrived in Miami and indicated it was a done deal.

“It was a big decision,” he told WTVJ-TV in Miami, “but it’s a class organization here in Miami. Pat Riley’s going to be great and the guys on the team I think I’m really going to like.”

Michael Cage looks to be the new starting center for the Philadelphia 76ers.

Dave Coskey, the Sixers’ vice president of marketing and communications, declined to comment, but sources close to the negotiations indicated the 6-9 Cage, a 12-year NBA veteran who played the past two seasons for the Cleveland Cavaliers, agreed to a multiyear contract.

The Phoenix Suns will send Elliot Perry to the Milwaukee Bucks, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.

The Bucks, who have pursued the point guard for two years, will send Phoenix a conditional first-round draft pick for Perry, the paper reported.

The newspaper said the deal will be officially announced after Sept. 1, because the bonus money Perry received last year won’t count toward his base salary after that date.