The Orlando Magic, the Miami Heat’s intrastate rival, took a huge swing for the fences on Sunday!
In need of perimeter shooting, the Orlando Magic acquired sharpshooting guard Desmond Bane away from the Memphis Grizzlies in exchange for Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Cole Anthony, four unprotected first-round picks and one first-round pick swap. What a haul!
The Magic are coming off a 41-win season, despite enduring myriad injuries to Paolo Banchero, Franz Wagner and Jalen Suggs. It was a desperate overpay for one of the best shooters in the NBA.
That said, Orlando’s blockbuster further justifies a route the Heat must explore if they don’t plan on paying one particular player this fall.
Heat must explore Tyler Herro’s market:
Last week, I opined that the Miami Heat must learn from a mistake they made with Jimmy Butler last offseason: If you don’t pay Herro, who’s eligible for a $150 million extension in October, you should explore trading him sooner rather than later.
The Heat still has an extra year to decide whether or not to extend their 25-year-old All-Star, but they are at risk of potentially allocating $294 million to Herro and Bam Adebayo through 2028-29.
If Herro doesn’t sign an extension this offseason, he’d be eligible for a four-year, $207 million extension next offseason and, if he made an All-NBA team next season, a $380 million supermax.
While the 6-foot-5 guard was the team’s best offensive player for roughly three quarters of the 2024-25 season, it would behoove the Heat to explore the market, now that it’s set.
You could argue that both players have comparable skill sets. But Bane has four years ($163.2M) left on his contract while Herro has just two. The situations aren’t parallel. You may not net five total first-round picks plus two rotation players for Herro, who is one-and-a-half years younger than Bane.
Herro experienced his greatest year-to-year growth of his career, averaging 23.9 points, 5.2 rebounds and 5.5 assists on 47.2 percent shooting and 37.5 percent from 3-point range. He made his first-ever All-Star game and appeared in more than 65 games for just the third time in his six-year career.
While the Heat are in the hunt for 37-year-old superstar Kevin Durant without many assets at their disposal, one way to replenish the treasure chest would be to try to maximize Herro’s value, which may never be higher despite another poor postseason.
You don’t know what Herro’s price would be on the open market if you don’t explore. Sacrifices will have to be made if the Heat acquire Durant. Locking Adebayo, Herro and Durant long-term will be an ill-advised decision that clogs your cap sheet if the end-goal is to compete for a title in this very small window.
The market is the market. Capitalize on it if the opportunity arises. There’s no doubt that Herro has made considerable strides as a player offensively, but this could be a perfect sell-high opportunity for the Heat that they should, at minimum, explore.
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One of the recurring themes in Pat Riley’s tenure as GM is that he won’t make a move that makes the Heat worse on paper. We’ve lost out on a lot of big names because of that, but when you look back the pieces that, for example, Milwaukee had to give up for Dame ended up working towards the detriment of that team. Lillard may have been the better player, but Holiday was arguably the better fit with Giannis.
This makes it frustrating on our end. It’s like trying to fish like a normal person, and the guy in the boat next to you keeps trying to grab the fish with his hands or something. You’re doing everything right, but you can’t catch any fish because that other guy keeps scaring them away.
That’s my worry with Durant, especially after this Orlando move. Orlando just chucked a cement block into our water and now Phoenix is going to have some ideas of what they “should” get in return for an aging superstar on a massive contract. If we get him, I hope we don’t end up giving up too much. If we don’t get him, there are other trades that can be made.
dunc for kd u doing that trade emily
Depends. How many picks are coming over from the Suns in the deal?
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did u just watch these duncan like players in the finals.i kept on thinking i felt like i was watching 10 duncans playing tonight.
Nice perspective madam Emily 😁
bane is a nice player kd a genrational player.still a top 10 player easily..bams a top 30 player.if bam is your best player your at best a playin team.2nd best player top 6-8 seed .3rd best player champ contender.u get kd and ja and still have bam i say go for that.
one reason we might get kd he wants to be #1 option.minn he would be 2 .houston he would be 1 spurs hed share spotlight with healthy wemby.
Orlando gave up a lot for a solid, but not great player. They are better, but how much.?
We will see.
I dont see Tyler has that kind of value. One thing is his shortcomings in defense, the other is his style of playing game. I believe the general sentiment is, that his style, which is having the ball a lot in his hands, doesn’t makes team better.
exactly.ball sticks with him one on one type player.when hes fresh hes really good offensively but he does wear down.dont believe he is a winning type player.dont think trade value is very high.him wiggy and a pick should land a kd.
I don’t think there is a trade market for Tyler. I also don’t think Tyler needs an extension – he has something like 3 years left on his contract.
here’s a crazy idea, how about we just let this dude play basketball and worry about building up the rest of the team. He’s not a superstar, but he’s a literal all-star on a reasonable contract.
“here’s a crazy idea, how about we just let this dude play basketball”
Agreed, it just shouldn’t be in Mia anymore
You see the light.
We need to move him while we got a chance. And that is because I do think there is a market for him, perhaps packaged, just not as great a market as some expect. And, if he has any kind of injury, or a slow start, that market will diminish.
I appreciate Ty, I think he’s a gifted athlete. But, he, despite his explosive offensive game, has limitations that along with other players we have with limitations makes for a team with too many players with limitations. If we move several other players with limitations, I am not against having Ty as a sixth man type.
If I havent spelled it out enough, I think we are ideally talking about a team with Ty, Jovic and Pelle, or some combo of two or three of them, and no other guys with their particular limitations (there does seem to be a tipping point where these particular type of limitations hurt a team, and that tipping point appears to be over three, and that is only if the three are all impactful players in some way). All three, unless Jovic or Pelle got a whole lot better, all three would be rotational guys. For reference, look at OKC.
Do that, change the roster in that way, and build a team that can win in this league. I am tired of beating around the bush on this subject. The world isn’t fair in a million ways, but then again it is in others. We chose to be an outlier and it has affected a lot of things. Moderation in everything is pretty much always better.
I wonder what Riley can get for Herro, Wiggins and Duncan (since he can be bought out at a $10m savings). That will leave Rozier, Anderson, Highsmith and Love on expiring contracts (which may be valuable around the trade deadline for tanking teams). Hmm?
I can think of several teams that might be interested in one or more of them in exchange for young talent and draft picks.
I’d go another route…Tyler’s move is to take in smaller $$ coz he’s not worth it. Yet. I don’t think Pat will offer him that much anyway. Again that comparison with Butler is way different. One carried the Heat in playoffs, one is just an offensive first option post Jimmy with little to average defense. That Orlando move is yet to be proven a good one and just by making a move people are already “celebrating” it. Remember that Rozier pick up? So let’s just wait it out before we count the chickens.
Totally agree. And the market may not be as strong as we would like even though we would be selling high and that alone should tell you not to put that much money into him as his contract will require.
We should trade Ty, Terry, and Dunc over the next two years. And one of Jovic or JJJ.