🚨Miami Heat Make A FLURRY Of Roster Moves

🚨Miami Heat Make A FLURRY Of Roster Moves

Welcome into the Heat Report by Chad Sports. I am Nick Rolloloff and we have a lot of roster moves to go over as the Heat trim down their preseason roster to their regular season roster with the first game of the season upcoming this Wednesday against the Orlando Magic. But before we get into all of that, hit that thumbs up icon if you’re excited for the season to get started on Wednesday. Let’s get over 300 likes on this video. All right, so the Heat upgraded a player to a two-way contract, waved a bunch of guys. Let’s start with the upgraded player to the two-way contract. That is guard Jamir Young. Now, if you have been subscribed and watching our content the past couple of weeks and in the preseason, I’ve been telling you that if I would have expected anybody on the current Heat roster, whether it is the Exhibit 10 guys or people that didn’t have a standard NBA contract to get the two-way, I always thought it would have been Jir Young. He has been the most impressive to me. The former Maryland guard played extremely well for the Chicago Bulls in the summer league this past summer in Vegas. had a 40-point game for the Bulls squad and showcased his scoring ability throughout the preseason for Miami, appearing in four of the six preseason games, playing about 19 minutes a night, and he averaged nine points. Nothing crazy. Shot 45% from the field, but shot 50% from three on two attempts per game. So to me, watching Jamir Young, you see his creativity, you see his shotmaking ability, and it’s a guard worth keeping around because I do believe in an absolute crazy pinch, he would be able to be playable, at least in some degree. We’ve seen him appear in some NBA games, but nothing crazy. And with the Heat being so lackluster at guard due to Casperachonis’ injury, Tyler Herro’s injury, Rosir being a little banged up, but we did see him in that final preseason game, which we’ll touch on here in just a second. I think it was just really smart to keep another guard away or on the roster when it comes to a two-way contract. Remember, you can play in around 40 games in the regular season on a two-way deal, but you’re ineligible for the playoffs. So Miami can pick and choose their spots with Young if they want to bring up to the active big league roster at any point throughout the season. Now if you are not aware, the three two-way contract players after the Jir Young upgraded contract is Young, is Vlad Golden, and then guard/forward Myron Gardner. So those three will exclusively play in the G-League. And then if the Heat have an injured player at guard or forward or just would like to have a third big in rotation, maybe they bring up Vlad Golden from time to time, but I doubt it because Golden really didn’t play at all in the preseason. Like I was stunned by the lack of usage from Vlad Golden. He only play appeared in three games and played eight minutes a game in those three. So it’s not like the Heat were showcasing his talents whatsoever. So very uh hit or miss on Mr. Vlad Golden. Those are the three two-way contracts for the Miami Heat entering the regular season. Let me know, are you happy that Jir Young got the final two-way contract? Type Y for yes or a type N for no. All right, the player that Miami waved was actually well, they did a lot of them, but Precious Aua was the one that caught the most attention, right? Miami signed him to a non-G guaranteed standard contract right before training camp ultimately began. I was pretty excited about that because one, this is the former 20th pick in the 2020 draft by the Miami Heat. We talked all off seasonason about how Miami needed to add a third big to this group because all they had was Bameabio and KL Wear. And if they plan on starting the two together, you have no true backup center because I don’t view Yoic as a center. He is more of a wing/forward and I don’t want to play him at the small ball five really anymore in his career. I don’t know if that’s going to be the case, but pressures not being here certainly makes it more likely. And when you think about the Heat rotation, yeah, KL Wear and Bam started together in the final two preseason games of the season. I still don’t think it’s smart to start the two together. And I know We looked awesome in the preseason. He was the Heat’s leading scorer, leading rebounder. He actually led the preseason in rebounds total. Um, he did play in all six preseason games for Miami. um one of two player or excuse me like four players to do that. Yeah, the only four players that did play all six preseason games were Khal Wear, Himemehz, Kashad Johnson and Myron Gardner. So those were the only four. But Wear played a ton of minutes and he dominated. He looked great and that’s how it should be. A secondyear center that’s emerging, you would have expected him to dominate if playing a ton of minutes against other teams, backups and third string type of guys. That’s the type of Kell wear that you were hoping to see in the summer league but just ultimately did not get. Um either way though I still think it’s smart to stagger the two. I think Yovic in the starting lineup makes a ton of sense. He should be ready to go for Wednesday’s season opener as he’s returning from some back soreness. I think they just kept him out as a precaution. Um he did practice late last week. So I feel very good about Nico being ready to roll to start the year. And with him, he just brings so much spacing, so much ball handling, and the flow of the offense just works so much more smooth with Yoic in that group. He makes Norman Powell better. He makes Andrew Wiggins better. He makes Bam better. He makes wear better, too, when they play together. The point I’m trying to make is Yovic is one of your best five players. You paid him like that. and he should be in that starting five because you’d absolutely need his creativity and secondary ball handling with a unit that lacks creation since Tyler Herro is going to be out for at least the first two three weeks of the regular season and then we see how quickly he can actually return and heal. But Kel Wear um started that game, but I still think Yoic should absolutely be in the starting five. And we’ll circle this back to close out pressure’s conversation. Miami may bring him back. We saw the Warriors do this. They waved Seth Curry, not Steph, Seth. And they also announced that they plan to bring him back in a month at the end of November, early December. And this is all cap related. You have different contracts and different like cap hits. Like if the Heat wanted to, they could sign a veteran big man, keyword veteran, in free agency in the first two weeks of December, and then their cap hit for the year would be significantly less. So the cap hit for Precious signing him in December, hypothetically, or any veteran big for the rest of the year is about 1.1 $1.4 million. Right now, if you kept Precious Chua for the entire year, it would be 2.2. Miami is 1.7 underneath the luxury tax. So I’ll say this, if you start Precious on the year and you kept him on the roster the entire year, you would have either had to wave Terrosir before January 10th and his contract became guaranteed or you would have had to wave Precious by January 10th before his contract becomes guaranteed if you wanted to stay underneath the luxury tax that is barring any other trade. So, it was more or less a money move in the Heat betting on themselves and their ability to survive the first month of the season basically with not a third big. And then I do expect Miami to sign a center uh in December when they are allowed to without it having a big cap hit. Make sure you are subscribed because when the season begins, we’ll be live on Wednesday. We also update you on everything Miami Heat roster move rumors. We got you covered. So, join the family here at the Heat Report. Other players waved by the Miami Heat, very simple. Dane Danja, uh, Bez Bang, and Ethan Thompson. Bez Bang was signed to an exhibit 10 right before the last preseason game, and the Heat waves Steve Settle. Uh, that is just roster movement stuff there. All of those players will likely land on the Miami Heat G-League team, that Souf Falls squad. We know they like Dane Dan to a degree. He was on the summer league team. uh the UDFA out of Memphis, was with the preseason roster and will likely join Sou Falls. Uh Ethan Thompson could be a soughtafter guy. Um he played really well in the G- League last season, so maybe a team gives him a look for their two-way spot um since he was waved by Miami. ultimately remains to be seen, but I would bet Bezb Bang, former Ivy League defensive player of the year from uh Yale, Thompson, and Dane Danja all end up on the Heats G-League team alongside Steve Settle, alongside Gabe Madson. We’ll see when that becomes official, but I do expect all those guys to stay with the Miami Heat in some capacity. All right, before we get out of here on today’s show, I did want to talk about Terry Rosier’s debut in the preseason. He only played um about 10 11 minutes in that game. Had four points, two of four from the field. Uh missed one three-point attempt. But I actually thought I liked what I saw from Terry from the most part. Like he looked fresh, which you would have expected since he hasn’t played in a while. He looked a little bit more free. It is the preeason. We’ll see what happens in the regular season if he gets any minutes. He actually kind of preached to the choir, if you will, after the game about just wanting a fair shot to crack this Heat rotation because I think he knows they’re writing on the wall about him being on the outside looking in and likely not a featured player this season, entering the final year of his deal at that price point and all the drama surrounding him. It’ll be fascinating to see how Terry Rosier ultimately does this season. If he’s able to come back and contribute anything this year, it would be very uh great if he did. like that would be an added bump for this Heat bench if they could get not even the Rosier that Miami thought they were going to get when they traded for him a couple years ago at the deadline. But if they got like 60% of that, like Rosier was averaging 20 points a game when they traded for him and he was pretty solid the last couple months of the year from Miami and then just fell off a cliff last season. If you could just give me 65 70% of the 23 24 Terry Rosier off the bench, that would be a massive win for the Miami Heat. And we’ll see what ultimately happens. We’re going to take a look at some more rumors. We got some Tyler Hero discussions to have before the season opener on Wednesday. So, make sure you subscribe. We got two videos going out before the Wednesday season opener. We’ll have a preview of night one. We’ll have some rumors. So, hit that sub button. Follow your boy on Twitter, nick_rolloff. And boy, Miami Heat basketball is officially here. The next time they lace him up, it will really count for regular season action. I’m fired up for it. Hope you are, too. And I hope to see you on Wednesday in our live show. Peace out and go Heat.

The Miami Heat have made a bunch of roster moves before the start of the 2025-26 NBA Season! Heat GM Pat Riley has finalized the Heat roster for the Heat vs. Magic 2026-26 NBA Season Opener. Miami signed Jahmir Young to their third two-way contract, he joins Vlad Goldin and Myron Gardner as the other Heat two-way players. The Heat waived Precious Achiuwa, which keeps the NBA Luxury Tax threshold but only gives the Heat two big men in Bam Adebayo and Kel’el Ware. Heat Report host Nic Rohloff gives you the latest on the Miami Heat roster moves!

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Miami Heat roster moves:
Jahmir Young Signed to a Two Way Contract
Precious Achiuwa Waived (Back under Luxury Tax)
Dain Dainja, Bez Mbeng and Ethan Thompson all waived

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