While each NBA team has until the final day of the regular season to sign players to a standard contract, the same does not apply to two-way contracts.
As teams finalize their rosters heading into the final month of the season, teams will have until March 4 to ink players to two-way contracts. The Miami Heat will not alter any of their three two-way spots before Wednesday’s deadline, according to the Miami Herald’s Anthony Chiang.
As a result, Miami will keep rookie big Vlad Goldin, guard Jahmir Young and Trevor Keels on two-way deals.
How each Heat two-way player is performing this season:
Miami converted two-way wing Myron Gardner to a standard contract last month. The Heat evidently signed Keels, a former second-round pick who’s been with the Heat’s org since the summer, to the final spot.
In his first season with the organization, Young, 25, has been the biggest standout among the three players. Through 24 games with the Sioux Falls Skyforce (Heat’s G-League affiliate), Young is averaging 26.2 points, 8.7 assists and 1.8 steals on 45.7 percent shooting and 35.0 percent from 3-point range.
Young earned a spot in the NBA’s Rising Stars Game as a replacement in February.
Goldin, who was immediately rewarded with a two-way after being undrafted in 2025, is averaging 12.3 points, 7.3 rebounds and 1.8 blocks on 65.5 percent shooting with Sioux Falls. Keels is averaging 18.7 points on 45.0/39.5/73.1 shooting splits with the Skyforce as well.
Of the trio, Young has appeared in the most minutes (47) with the Heat this season. He’s scored 17 points with six assists on 7-of-20 shooting and 2-of-7 from deep.
Goldin and Keels have played in 10 combined minutes.
Did the Miami Heat make the right call regarding keeping their three two-ways? Let us know in the comments!
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They could have signed players that they were going to play could have signed Chris Boucher an George Niang
Taking the Cal Coolidge approach, the do nothing president.
As for the standings, a few things have come to light. Even Giannis can’t save the hapless Bucks. So, we are definitely in the play-in, at the least. Second, we have some pretty good competition for the six spot. Philly is weaker than most thought without Embiid and could be passed. But, Charlotte is playing so well that I think they are probably the favorites now to end up sixth. And Atlanta appears to be coming on also. Nothing is set and it could be an exciting run for that sixth spot.
There isn’t consensus here on whether we even want the play-in, and I must admit to being on the fence. I believe we are still just a mediocre team even with Ty providing us with a nice boost to our offense and the Bam/ Ware frontline looking promising. There is such a wide disparity in the nba between the haves and have nots which is why we can look so good against the tankers and so overwhelmed by the top echelon teams, some of which we will be playing later this month.
Starting on 3-15 to 4-1, our schedule gets tougher as we only have one tanker during that span and everyone else will be trying to win. I still expect us to lose at least half of those games, if not more, as we still appear to be only incrementally better than last year.
So doing nothing at the deadline, to me, was saying something, at least about the 25-26 season. We shall see. .
Miami is mediocre. However, so are the other teams competing for 5th and 6th place. It’s just a matter of which teams get hot and which ones don’t. At this point, Miami could finish anywhere from 5th to 10th place.
Atlanta beat the hell out of the Bucks and Charlotte kicked Boston’s butts. Both teams are now 32-31 and tied for 9th place, 1.5 games behind 7th place Heat and Orlando, 2.5 games behind 6th place Philadelphia and 4 games behind 5th place Toronto. 11th and 12th place Bucks and Bulls are fading fast.
Bottom line, there 6 teams chasing 2 playoff spots. The remaining 4 teams will be left competing for the 7th and 8th playoff seedings. The losers will be lottery teams.
Miami is currently 33-29 with 20 games to go. If the team goes 13-7 or 12-8, it could finish 46-36 or 45-37, which might be good enough for 6th place. First round match-up would be Boston, New York or Cleveland. Otherwise,
If Heat finishes in the playoffs it would draft in the 15-18 range range. If it does not make the playoffs, it would likely draft in the 11-14 range.
What the hell, may as well go for it and let the chips fall where they may.
CURRENT STANDINGS
TOMORROW NIGHT’S STANDINGS (POSSIBLE)
If Toronto loses on the road and Orlando and Miami win at home, tomorrow night the standings would be:
REMAINING SCHEDULES AS OF 3/5/26 (HOME/AWAY)
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I can see your point. I wrote a similar post above.
did pat think niko was the backup pf c wtf is wrong with him not getting a backup big otherwise team looks pretty good lots guys playing their best bball (bam wiggy jjj) ty norm are bucket getters.ware is so long just that makes him playable.dav dru give u great d.team is gonna be a tough out for anybody in the east
I agree on the back-up. It’s almost as though Riley was trying not to win. Bam or Ware go down and Sayonara to 2025-2026. No back-up plan/Plan B. Poor strategic planning. Asleep at the wheel. All hat and no cattle.
What’s Pelle, chopped liver?
You could make excuses for the GM, like there was no one good to get, or the money put the team over the apron. Still, I think that if you gave another GM this team, with their needs, during this season, most other GM’s would have addressed the big man issue.