Roughly two weeks after the Miami Heat traded for Hornets guard Terry Rozier, it’s official: The Heat did not make any more trades ahead of the Thursday’s 2023-24 NBA Trade Deadline.
After flipping Rozier, the Heat had limited assets that it was able to part with, namely Caleb Martin–who is making $6.8 million with a $7.1 million player option next year–Thomas Bryant (who also has a player option for less than $3 million), Haywood Highsmith, Dru Smith and Nikola Jovic, among others. They had just one tradable first-round pick with up to three tradable seconds, which flew off the market like pocket change for the second consecutive deadline.
In reality, it was unrealistic that the Heat were going to flip Tyler Herro’s $27 million or Duncan Robinson’s $18.2 million before summer, so it was left with few options to aggregate for a decent-sized contract. The Heat still have 14 players on their roster, so they will likely explore some buyout candidates, including Delon Wright, Robin Lopez, Otto Porter Jr. and Danuel House, among plenty others, should they be bought out.
The Heat are unable to sing any buyout players who, at any point, were making north of $12.4 million because they are above the first tax apron. Thus, they would be unable to sign guards Spencer Dinwiddie and Joe Harris, who made $20.4 million and $19.9 million, respectively.
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EASTERN CONFERENCE STANDINGS (12/28/23 2/8/24 =/-)
Celtics 24-6 1. Celtics 39-12 (15-6)Bucks 23-8 2. Cavs 34-16 (15-3)76ers 21-9 3. Bucks 33-19 (10-11)Heat 19-12 4. Knicks 33-19 (16-4)Magic 18-12 5. 76ers 30-20 (9-11)Cavs 19-13 6. Pacers 29-24 (10-10)Pacers 19-14 7. Heat 28-24 (9-12)Knicks 17-15 8. Magic 28-24 (10-12)
Note: Celtics, Cavs and Knicks have been playing excellent basketball since December. Bucks, 76ers, Pacers, Heat and Pacers…not so much.
Saw the game where Bulls won vs Wolves. One impt factor was Drummond held his own vs Wolves bigs to the tune of 16pts 16rebs (6off). He was very serviceable still. Can we get one like him? 🤔😁
played vuc and drum together vs kat and rudy hmm how bout bam and orob at least give it a try once in a blue moon
Riley made his move with Rosier, which fixed the biggest hole. I think we should all agree that was a good trade, and teem is better with him in the place of Lowry.
Heat has a lot of good, but not great players. None of players traded till deadline are great players, so there makes no sense to makes trades for them.
Heat needs length and shooting in frontcourt. Some of this could be available on the buyout market, for much better price.
So staying put was actually a good strategy. Classic Riley.
Staying put maybe Pat’s smartest move so far this season!
Coming up…Boston, Milwaukee and Philadelphia before the all-star break…followed by New Orleans, Sacramento, Portland and Denver to finish off the month. We should find out where we are going this season after those 7 games.
GO HEAT!!!
Very rough stretch, even the lesser teams are no bargain. This is make or break time starting now. We will find out if we have enough. And no one should say it’s just the regular season as these games are too important for avoiding the play-in. Hoping for the best, but I am concerned.
its the reg season, jimmy dont give a crape.hes a diff player in real season
Since last year did happen, as amazing as it was, there will always be this expectation that Jimmy and his supporting cast, can turn it on when the games matter most. I find myself wanting to believe it too.
I believe in Santa Claus too.
jimmy single handedly beat milw.him and caleb beat boston.peaking at the right time in sports is key.not saying the heat mainly jimmy are holding out as much as they can for the playoffs,but weve got to believe that .jimmy and few others mainly jim will raise their game during the real season if they dont mainly jim theyre one and done
What about that PF/C to deal with the monsters? Spo better start giving Bryant and ORob some playing time to “toughen up” or bring in Cousins or Howard to beat the shit out of the big boys. Otherwise, Heat may want to fogetaboutit! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u9KczvcYfd8
agree but spobot wont play bam with a big,he never has and never will. gives up size for speed i guess dont think orobs leash has been long enough.hes been spostrasized.
Well, almost no one……
LOL, you know you were expecting that.
Like the sun rising in the east. Like death and taxes. 😆
Also worth mentioning that the Heat are currently 5 games out of 3rd, and we’re not even at the all-star break. Still a lot of basketball left this season
5.0 games out of 3rd and 5.5 games out of 10th. So there’s that.
Like I’ve said before no one knows what really is happening behind the trade curtains. And my guess still: Pat now keeps his cards closer, inside his coat actually lol. That its not publicly known what did and didn’t happen. Now the players can ball and focus. Go Pat! Go Heat!
Pistons just waived Gallo! I’m going full Josh Jackson on this one. Gallo is the missing piece!
Get on the bandwagon! It’s been a few years in the making. 😉
PJ Tucker is totally PO’d that he wasn’t traded. Did he really think any team wanted pick up his $22 million in remaining money?? Seems a lot of teams weren’t interested at any price.
Wow, someone went to a Daryl Morey team, and then Morey screwed him over? I’m shocked. Seriously. Shocked.
I’m sure the NBA media will point that out, right? I’d be shocked if nobody in the media mentions it because Morey leaks them trade rumors. Seriously. Shocked.
Haha
we should pickup danuel house for depth
6’6″ 36% 3pt shooter
Having a rough year, shooting 30% 3pt.
Jamaal Cain is better than Danuel House
I’ve been thinking a lot about the Rozier trade. Here are some random thoughts in no particular order:
They can’t sign Morris because his salary was above the $12.4 million threshold.
I’d go for Olynyk or Gallo as my top 2 choices. Watanabe, Lopez, and Young next in no particular order.
Second unit, with Butler now anchoring the unit, Love, Olynyk, Butler, Duncan, J Rich.
Reserves – Highsmith, Bryant, Jovic, Orlando.
I think Love is better than Gallo or Olynyk or whoever else is out there. And honestly, I’d rather see Jovic get those minutes. But he’s 20 years old, and I don’t think Spo will trust him in the playoffs.
Maybe, but I see the other 2 in different roles than Love. With Love as backup center, Olynyk would play backup pf or c if Love is out or in foul trouble. Gallo would play backup pf or slide to sf if they want to play bigger.
I agree with all who feel that we have bigs but they’re not being utilized. Maybe Spo would trust one of those vets more.
If Thad Young was a few years younger. Maybe he has something left? He’ll probably end up in Philly
Yea it would be great, if thad was younger, but beggers can’t be choosers. Also he would be a good stopgap pf until we find a bigger, better, and younger one. I’m pretty sure he has something left in the tank. All we would need from him is a Decent 3pt shot, defense, and help bam on the boards. Anything else would be a bonus. Hopefully he doesn’t end up in Philly because pickings are already slim as it is.
Another reason I’d like Olynyk is then we’d have the NBA hippie market cornered. 😀
Imagine JJJ and KO on the ct 😳😲🤯
Groovy man 😎
Love the thought of getting a big, preferably an athletic 7 footer. Unfortunately, none available. A big man will square up a square hole, which is one problem the Heat has. Any other move is putting a triangular peg in a square hole Imho.
‘big, athletic 7 footer’? dont we have that already with Orlando robinson
yep. Also Bryant and Jovic. I think that’s why the heat didn’t make a trade. We have a bunch of 7-footers on this team that never play, no need to add another
Jovic, Bryant and Orlando unfortunately can not match against our elite opposisition. Sad as it is, there is not one available better than what we have.
Smart man!
A little sad about us not making a trade. I am still hoping for buyout help but that may not move the needle much. Still, I am happy we got Rozier and I will cheer the team on to make another amazing run. Go Heat!