Author name: Matt Hanifan

Miami Heat

Erik Spoelstra is ’embracing the unknown’ entering 2025-26 season

While the Eastern Conference has plenty of unknown entering the 2025-26 NBA season, the Miami Heat do, too. Throughout the Jimmy Butler era, the expectation was always to win. That objective isn’t going to change, but the Heat are entering their first full season without Butler, who was traded to the Golden State Warriors last […]

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Norman Powell

Hanifan: Why Norman Powell could lead Heat in scoring in 2025-26

Unfortunately, the Miami Heat will be without its best offensive player — Tyler Herro — at the start of the 2024-25 season after the 25-year-old guard underwent foot surgery earlier this month. Herro, 25, led the Heat in scoring last year and assumed a primary creation role, averaging a team-high 23.9 points on a career-best

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Portland Trail Blazers

Hanifan’s Offseason Outlook: Evaluating the Portland Trail Blazers’ 2025 offseason

For our second annual offseason outlook series, Hot Hot Hoops senior writer Matt Hanifan will provide his take on the offseasons of all 30 teams for the next 30 days! We have already completed the Eastern Conference, so we will proceed in alphabetical order with the West before capping it all off with the Miami

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Tyler Herro

2 ESPN analysts explain why Tyler Herro is too low in network’s top-100

ESPN released its annual top-100 player rankings earlier this week — a consensus from the myriad of analysts from the network. Four Miami Heat players cracked the list, though only one (Bam Adebayo — 21) made the top-65. In a recent roundtable, two analysts — ESPN’s front office insider Bobby Marks, and NBA analyst Jorge

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Heat Suns

Hanifan’s Offseason Outlook: Evaluating the Phoenix Suns’ 2025 offseason

For our second annual offseason outlook series, Hot Hot Hoops senior writer Matt Hanifan will provide his take on the offseasons of all 30 teams for the next 30 days! We have already completed the Eastern Conference, so we will proceed in alphabetical order with the West before capping it all off with the Miami

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Oklahoma City Thunder

Hanifan’s Offseason Outlook: Evaluating the Oklahoma City Thunder’s 2025 offseason

For our second annual offseason outlook series, Hot Hot Hoops senior writer Matt Hanifan will provide his take on the offseasons of all 30 teams for the next 30 days! We have already completed the Eastern Conference, so we will proceed in alphabetical order with the West before capping it all off with the Miami

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