The Heat have signed forward Chris Silva to a fourth 10-day contract, according to Ira Winderman of The South Florida Sun Sentinel (Twitter link). Silva’s third 10-day deal with the team expired on Sunday night.
Silva, 25, has appeared in a total of seven games for Miami since first signing with the club back on December 31. He has averaged 3.4 PPG and 3.7 RPG in 9.0 minutes per contest while providing depth in the frontcourt.
A player is typically limited to no more than two 10-day contracts with the same team in a single season, but that restriction doesn’t apply to 10-day deals completed using a COVID-related hardship exception. All four of Silva’s contracts have been hardship deals, since the Heat have had players in and out of the health and safety protocols for over a month.
Omer Yurtseven entered the protocols over the weekend and is currently the only Heat player affected. If he exits the protocols before Silva’s new 10-day deal expires and no one new enters, Silva will be ineligible to play at that point.
Silva has earned $95,930 on each of his 10-day contracts this season, including one with Minnesota in December. By the time his new deal expires (on the night of February 9), he’ll have received nearly $480K in total, which exceeds the minimum salary for a player on a two-way contract in 2021/22.
Silva is the second player to sign four 10-day contracts with the same club this season, joining Lance Stephenson (Pacers).
Which current/former Heat great would you rather have if you could have them for their entire career, Tim Hardaway, Jamal Mashburn, Chris Bosh, Bam Adebayo or Glen Rice? Rank em if possible…
As a Heat fan, this is extremely tough even though it probably shouldnt be. Obviously, Tim Hardaway should be a HoFer, and his jersey is in the rafters, but I’m going to have to go with Chris Bosh, especially when factoring in he could have played another 10 years, and been even greater than he already was as the league evolved, and be an all time great. I love Bam; he is the heartbeat of the organization, and the next guy ti carry that after UD and Zo. I love Glen Rice; amazing scorer and shooter, and could defend. I was a big Jamal Mashburn fan; I knew someone who was his neighbor and where his mom lived. Tim Hardaway was one of the most clutch players I’ve possibly ever seen, and he is a childhood hero for me, but I have to go with Bosh.
Bosh, Bam, Hardaway, Glen Rice, Mash
1 – Tim Hardaway
2 – Chris Bosh
3 – Bam Adebayo
4 – Glen Rice
5 – Jamal Mashburn
Question – Does entire career mean injuries for Mashburn and Bosh are gone?
Rice and Hardaway had injuries as well
I was going to say the same. Its actually crazy sometimes looking back at Hardaways numbers with the Heat b/c it feels like they arent as good as you would have thought back then…that being said, the pace of the game and the way things work back then were totally different, so they’re still really strong numbers
1/ Mashburn
2/ Bosh
3/ Bam
4/ Rice
5/ Hardaway
Happy for Chris Silva. He played great in his time with them this year, and picked up like he never left. Wish they could keep him around. He has a lot of UD in him.