Though the Heat are still making an effort to trade for a star like Nets forward Kevin Durant or Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell, the team could eventually consider pivoting to pursuing a solid veteran like John Collins, Myles Turner, or Harrison Barnes in their frontcourt, says Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
Winderman writes that Miami’s front office has had conversations about potentially including young All-Defensive center Bam Adebayo in a deal for Durant, but not everyone in the Heat brain trust is on board with offloading the 25-year-old big man for the injury-prone 33-year-old veteran.
Winderman adds that the team could trade up to three future first-round selections at present, but could theoretically acquire more to include in a deal if it opted to move other young players like Tyler Herro, Max Strus, Omer Yurtseven, Gabe Vincent, or Nikola Jovic in separate trades with other clubs for additional draft picks.
There’s more out of South Beach:
- The Heat will probably wait to move on to Plan B trade targets until they have exhausted their possibilities for adding Durant or Mitchell, writes Anthony Chiang of the Miami Herald. According to Chiang, Miami most likely will want to keep its coffers open should another superstar become available via trade.
- Following summer training obligations with their respective national teams, Heat big men Omer Yurtseven and Nikola Jovic will have to hop directly to a training camp with Miami, with possibly as little as a two weeks off in between, notes Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
- In a separate piece, Winderman wonders if the Heat are hurting themselves as they await a potential Durant deal. With league activities essentially on hold until Durant is moved, Miami finds itself at something of a crossroads. The team currently lacks a true NBA rotational power forward after having let P.J. Tucker walk in free agency and thus far not opting to re-sign Markieff Morris.
Bam, fillers and 3 Firsts for Durant?
Is Bam a top 25 players in the nba now?
This would beat Suns offer
Overpay.
Can’t make that deal while Ben Simmons is still on the Nets.
The Bam bust
Wait how is Durant injury prone? He had like 5 straight years of excellent health. One long injury doesn’t make him injury prone.
What 5 years? Cause it wasnt the last 5 years thats for sure.
The Heat still can’t deal Bam for Durant as long as the Nets have Ben Simmons due to the Designated Rookie rule.
So the Miami front office has to either think they’d get Simmons back in said trade or Simmons would go elsewhere in a trade. Neither of which appear likely at all. So is it someone in the Miami front office or Winderman who doesn’t understand the way NBA trade rules work?
Think outside of box, Riley love 4-team deal
Knicks get Bam
Nets get Turner, Hield, 2 Firsts from Knicks, 3 Heat Firsts
Pacers get any salary from Knicks, 4 Knicks Other teams Firsts
Heat get Durant
Salary filler as needed
Just move Bam to the 4. Simple
Durant is not injury prone. He had one major injury?
Jovic needs to play as much basketball as possible. Throw him out there at the park vs middle school kids if you have to. Dude just needs to play basketball in general
The only one of those players that mairs any sense for the Heat is Kevin Durant, and even though Harrison Barnes makes sense, Sacramento shouldnt be trading him, and I dont see how the Heat could get him where it improves the roster, with what they have to give up
So its wait on KD situation, and sign 1-2 players at the 4, ahead of Highsmith, not Morris, preferably Paul Millsap, and hope to stay relatively healthy for the first time in 9 years
Well if Pat Riley wants a championship next year he need to go after Julius Randle or Russell Westbrook. Might as well forget these heavy TRADE players like KD.