Even though the Miami Heat drafted Kasparas Jakucionis No. 20 overall in the 2025 NBA Draft, he wasn’t expected to fall that far. Despite suffering a midseason arm injury, the Illinois alum was one of the best freshmen in college basketball last season, averaging 15.0 points, 5.7 rebounds and 4.7 assists on 44.0 percent shooting, […]
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No NBA team has more players playing in EuroBasket 2025 more than the Miami Heat. Good news: All of them are heading to the knockout round. Even though Lithuania bested Pelle Larsson and Sweden, 74-71, Montenegro’s loss to Great Britain Wednesday put Sweden into the knockout stage — rewarding the Heat with three players in
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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 will proceed in alphabetical order, starting with the Eastern Conference. Today, we will be hitting the Brooklyn Nets. Past Previews: Evaluating the Brooklyn Nets’
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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 will proceed in alphabetical order, starting with the Eastern Conference. Today, we will be hitting the Boston Celtics. Evaluating the Boston Celtics’ 2025 offseason
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The calendar has turned to September. You know what that means, right?! Our offseason outlook series is back for the second-straight year! Hot Hot Hoops senior writer Matt Hanifan will provide his take on the offseasons of all 30 teams for the next 30 days! We will be going in alphabetical order, beginning with the
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Miami Heat forward Simone Fontecchio put together a record-breaking performance for Italy in EuroBasket group stage play Sunday. The 6-foot-8 wing scored 39 points — breaking Italy’s all-time EuroBasket scoring record, previously held by Andrei Bargnani (36 PTS; 2011) — in Italy’s 96-79 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina on Sunday. Fontecchio’s 39 points came on
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We are exactly one month away from the start of training camp! I know, we’re still in the dog days of summer! Though we’re slowly, but surely creeping up to the start of the 2025-26 season. The Miami Heat have had a fairly active offseason, even though their core (Bam Adebayo, Tyler Herro) has remained
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Earlier this month, the Miami Heat traded Haywood Highsmith to the Brooklyn Nets to get under the luxury tax. The Nets are the only team in the NBA with remaining cap space, so they did not have to send back any salary to execute the trade. However, it did come at the expense of the
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We are roughly one month away from the start of training camp, and the Miami Heat’s roster remains fairly unbalanced. They have an abundance of guard depth and little to no frontcourt depth, which is beyond questionable roster construction. And one could argue that one of the odd men out is veteran guard Terry Rozier,
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It’s no secret that the Miami Heat have been trying to dump Terry Rozier for anything of value this offseason. The unfortunate reality is that they can’t because of a months-long federal betting investigation that’s tanked his value. They aren’t going to waive-and-stretch the 31-year-old guard, but could they negotiate a buyout? According to NBA
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