RUMOR: NBA Insider Reveals Miami Heat’s TOP Offer Could Land Giannis Antetokounmpo—LEAGUE SCARED?

RUMOR: NBA Insider Reveals Miami Heat’s TOP Offer Could Land Giannis Antetokounmpo—LEAGUE SCARED?

A Heat legend had some strong comments about the team's recent play, and an NBA insider likes Miami's chances in a potential deal for Giannis Admpo. Plus, is there a key stat that could change the offense? >> I think I found one. We'll talk about it next. >> You are Locked on Heat, your daily Miami Heat podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network. your team every day. >> All right, welcome to Locked on Heat, your daily podcast on the Miami Heat, part of the locked on podcast network, now the number one sports podcast network. Whether you're tuning in on YouTube or on your favorite podcast app, thanks for making Locked on Heat your first listen every day. Join the Cookie Gang, become an everydayer. That means subscribing, tuning in every day, Monday through Friday, and signing up for the Everydayer Club with the link in the show notes. Today's episode is brought to you by Game Time. Download the Game Time app, create an account, use the code locked on NBA for $20 off your first purchase. I'm Wes Goldberg, host of Locked on NBA Daily and Real GM radio. I'm here with David Rmill. Both of us are credentialed Heat Media members who cover this team every day. We have a bunch to get to today. Dwayne Wade is calling out the Heat, and I've got a surprising stat to share about the Heat's offense. We'll get to all of that here in a second, but first, we have to start with the latest on Giannis. That's right. Giannis watch is continuing. Uh it doesn't seem like this is going to come to an end anytime soon, but we do have some new information. According to Jake Fischer of the Stein Line, some teams are concerned about Giannis's injury history when it comes to trading for him and of course signing him to an extension. He's currently out with a calf strain. Remember, uh it was a non-cont injury that uh he suffered in uh the middle of the game. Goes down. People feel the we fearing are fearing the worst at that time. It's not an Achilles. It's a calf strain. But I don't know that there's two more scary words in sports right now, especially in the NBA, than calf strain. So, teams are going to want to see Giannis when he comes back from this injury before they trade for him and commit to him. Um, but it's not just that, right? He's also missed two of the last postseasons because of injuries, >> and he's on the other side of he's he's 31 years old. He's he turned 31 years old 10 days ago. Um, all of that according to Fischer could drive down Giannis' trade value despite the fact that he's a consensus top three or four player in the NBA. So then this is what Jake Fischer writes and I think this is the part that will be uh particularly interesting for for Heat fans. He goes, quote, "I'm not so sure I agree when I hear rival teams denounce Miami's best possible trade package as not being good enough to ultimately land at Tenmpo. In terms of in-season suitors, I'm struggling to pinpoint another team capable of presenting a deal that would clearly trump the Heat's richest pitch. With the Thunder, Spurs, and Rockets not expected to join a theoretical Giannis sweep stakes, what team could elbow into the bidding and appeal to Giannis as a team he wants to stay with an offer that trumps Miami's ability to package Tyler Herro, KL Wear, draft compensation, and maybe more. End quote. David, when you hear that, when you read that, um, we had, we did a recent episode about Giannis optimism, you were trying to keep down expectations. I think I was trying to temper expectations a little bit more. But it is interesting that when Jake Fischer talks to teams, they tend to do the thing that we talked about on that latest episode about, yeah, you know what, that Miami never really has the best trade package. Are they really going to land the superstar this time around because they keep swinging and missing on these guys? But as Jake writes, there doesn't seem to be an offer out there with a suitable team clearly better than the Heats offer, at least theoretically. >> I agree with him. I think that's the reality. I think whatever you can put together that might include Tyler Khil and anything else, I think probably is the best offer you're going to get for Giannis. Even if you don't necessarily consider his injury history as a major concern, I I don't think it's the same thing. Like I think Luca's trade to which is the most recent top five player trade in the NBA. That's what everybody's going to reference. That was a complete and total elaboration. I think that was more just a really poor choice on behalf of the Mavericks for an office for a lot of different reasons. And it wasn't like the Mavericks hadn't been successful. They had just made a trip to the finals. And so the idea of trading Luca was just well a very unusual one. And so they didn't necessarily get requisite value. Not that you are you're not going to get the same kind of value for >> they also only dealt with one team in those negotiations. They didn't open it up to >> um you know sweep stakes. >> Yeah. Right. So I I I tend to agree with Jake's perspective here. But what I did like which I think is even more encouraging is the fact that as you pointed out other teams are kind of downplaying Miami's overall ability to do that. That's strikes me as kind of being afraid of Miami more than anything else. It's like >> such a good take. >> I think what they're saying is no, no, no, there's no chance Miami could do this because it sounds like fear. Like in the past, they've never questioned it. Even recently, the Athletic had a poll about my uh all the front offices in the in the NBA and Miami is still considered third. You look at this fan base and their perspective on the fan on the front office, it's like, oh, they haven't pulled out a betray around the league. They're still always going to be scared of Pat Riley. Pat Riley will be always feared around the league and he is going to have the kind of cache to be able to pull off moves. And I think when other teams start saying, you know what, I don't think they have that good a deal. What I hear is I think they could actually pull it off. And that that's where I think they're kind of a little scared that Miami might be able to land that superstar that vaults them into title contention. So, I want to go back to your point about the Luca trade because I think it's a really good one and it's worth um kind of going into a little bit more. When you trade a superstar, it used to be the case that when you traded that superstar, you at least needed to get a ticket to your next superstar because you're absolutely right. You never get requisite value right away. You're not trading a superstar for a superstar. That doesn't happen. But, are you getting that lottery pick that turns into the next? Are you getting that young rookie who could blossom into uh an allNBA caliber player? That's you need that ticket to your next superstar when you trade super. That used to be the case. >> That's not necessarily true as much lately because of the CBA. Look at recent trades. Not just Luca, but it's a good example. But you also look at Jimmy Butler, >> Kevin Durant. The teams that traded these superstar type players didn't get that ticket back, right? I thought Phoenix did pretty good in that Kevin Durant trade, but they kind of put themselves in a corner after openly shopping them before the trade deadline. The Heat we've talked enough about. They if they would have traded him sooner, maybe they could get a little bit more value out, maybe they do get that lottery ticket. Although, as we talked about on a recent show before that Warriors game, that package is looking pretty good right now for uh for Jimmy Butler, especially the way that Warriors fans are talking about Jimmy right now. But um without going down the uh pity highway too far, um for players who are over 30 years old and do huge extensions, the pool of teams just isn't as big as it used to be because of how uh you know uh uh how how stringent these luxury taxes and these aprons are now. And so when that pool isn't as big, you're not going to drum up the same demand. And when you're not drumming up the same demand, the return that these teams used to get aren't the same. It's why Danny A does what he does, right? Where he always positions himself as I'm not trading this player, even though as soon as he says I'm not trading this player, you could bet your bottom dollar he's probably going to trade that player. But the idea is to increase um leverage. And so for Giannis, like the Bucks aren't going to be able to have that leverage if Giannis just comes in and says, "Hey, I want a trade and oh, by the way, I'm doing an extension." So any team that trades for me, I kind of have not veto power, but something close to it because I can tell that team, you could trade for me, but I'm not going to resign with you. And for the cost that it would take to get me anyway, that's just the the risk is too great for for them to do that. So if Giannis does want to play in Miami >> or New York or wherever and the Heat come up with this trade package, which I do think is pretty good. Tyler Herro, Milwaukee native, Kell Wear might be that ticket to your next superstar player with the leap that he's taken this year. Plus a couple of first round picks. That's that's a pretty good return as long as the Thunder and Spurs stay out of this and that Giannis doesn't want to go to the Atlanta Hawks, which I think is a really big piece in this. Yeah, I I think I mean you brought up the Jimmy trade and I think we saw that even with Butler like he said, "No, I have no interest in Memphis. Oh, I don't have any interest in this team." So, they were scared off like those teams, >> we don't know the level of interest, but he made it clear, him and his agent I should say, made it clear that they were never really in the running. And so, I think you have a similar situation here with Giannis having some level of power in deciding what team he goes to next. And I think in that sense, I think there's enough faith about Miami if he wants to resign here, if he wants to be part of this team, that he can appreciate what this front office has historically been able to pull together and that he views a commitment to Miami as a likely one. So I the look it's not to say and I know we talked about this in that recent episode that you brought up. There is a lot of noise and who knows how to separate all this but I think as I said then I think Giannis would find Miami a palable option. I mean for a lot of reasons. There's stability here. There's consistency. There's the intent of winning even if there the winning actually hasn't taken place. But there's also a front office that's proven and has a track proven track record of being able to get kind of deals done. And and uh I mean it's look it's exciting. It's exciting to even think about and consider. I mean I think even I saw a report that said Jason Williams also mentioned that maybe the Heat would pull off and he said it a lot more strongly that he would that he thought Pat Riley was going to get Giannis out of and John Moran. I don't I don't know how that's going to work out, but that seems like the kind of >> I don't know swing. >> Can we just stick with Giannis for now? >> It might just be those two. Yeah, I know. It might just be those two players and not somebody else >> and Kashad Johnson just running around trying to grab rebounds. >> Uh Dwayne Wade called out the Heat's effort. Uh could it be a wakeup call for the team amongst amidst this fivegame skid? 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Go to locked onheat.supcast.com or check the link in the show notes to learn more. Dwayne Wade on his podcast uh either saw the same thing that you did, David, when the Heat got eliminated uh in the NBA Cup by the Magic or he listened to you on this podcast and agreed, let's play the sound really quick. >> You know, you want you want your your franchise to be, you know, in these moments. I was pissed off watching the effort last night. I ain't like it, but I'm like, y'all don't want to go to Vegas, though? Y'all don't want to go win this money? I need better effort. And Orlando, shout out to Desmond Bane. Put it on them. Put it on the Heat. They had no response. They had They They didn't respond enough. And normally I'm so used to Miami Heat team just keep responding. Resilience. >> David and D. Wade aligned in their thinking here. >> That's right. That's right. It's a It's a better duo, I think, than Dwayne and LeBron James. But you know what? Whatever. That's okay. the new peanut butter and jelly. >> I mean, I I think I I I feel kind of encouraged by that because I know it's kind of reductive to just say, "Oh, the effort's not there." And you've pointed it out, the team, it's not like they're actively not trying, but I think to Dwayne's point, we've gotten used to seeing that level of effort where they're they always felt like they were in it. No matter what the challenge was, no matter what the team was, when something was on the line, that group has historically risen to the occasion. And I didn't see that effort. And I was even more disappointed by what we witnessed against the Toronto Raptors. Again, you just got eliminated. You've had several days off. That should be They should have come in there and blown the doors off of Toronto. They should have come in there and won by 30 because they should have had a significant chip on their shoulder after what happened in the Orlando loss. And you had the time to prepare. You could have you could have analyzed everything. You could have broken down as much game film as possible. you could have seen any possibility of what Toronto might be able to run and found ways to counter that between the coaching staff and the players. There should have been a much greater sense of urgency and I saw none of that. Absolutely none. And so for Dwayne to call him out like that, I think that's great. I don't know that players will listen. Uh I think even for a former player, a guy who's so tied to the franchise as Dwayne is, I think he's viewed more as part of the media landscape. So, it doesn't really matter all that much, but I'm glad he did. I'm glad he called it out. And I think he's he's pointing those comments at certain players on his roster for not leading the charge and not being able to provide that kind of sense of urgency that I talked about. >> So, the stats don't back it up. Their drives are up even during this losing skid. The speed and distance stats that are on the NBA's tracking data stuff is uh they're all the same. That said, and and I said this back then and I'll say it again, like I still don't know the team that looks like they're playing with joy when they're missing every three-pointer and Desmond Bane is doing what Desmond Bane is doing. I still have yet to find that team. That said, when Dwayne Wade says something like that, you tend to listen. And I do think it's the kind of thing that does make it back to that Heat locker room. That's D. Wade. That guy's got a statue outside the arena. That guy's picture is plastered all over that locker room and and the hallways to that locker room. When D Wade says it, that's not just a member of the media. That's an icon. That's everybody. I mean, that for some of these players that trumps Pat Riley saying it, >> you know, like that guy is a legend. >> I do think it's the kind of thing that makes it back to that Heat locker room. And we saw this. We saw this when Udonis Hasslam texted Khal Wear and it just it almost felt like those two things happened and Khal Wear made that leap right away after that text message. This stuff does matter and I do wonder whether or not it will be a wakeup call for this Heat team. Um, I'm with you 100%. That Toronto loss to me was the worst loss of the season given the context, given the fact that he'd already lost four in a row, the days off like you mentioned that that Raptors team was also losing uh they had lost four games in a row at that point. Even with the fiveame skid, this team can win four out of five and be right back in the top three in the Eastern Conference. It is that jumbled right now as the Pistons and the Knicks kind of separate themselves at the top as the top two in the standings. Um, have >> you look have you looked at the player like the hustle stats for the last two weeks? >> Yeah. >> And and do they fit that same like they haven't uh changed that dramatically? >> No. >> Okay. I'm surprised. It just it feels like th those kind of small 50/50 possessions or those kind of like I said hustle stats maybe they just stand out more or they stood out more during the time when the team was winning and they just doesn't feel like they're getting those same kind of opportunities now. They're not generating those same kind of plays at least maybe to my simplistic view. Uh but I I I'm surprised if the statistics don't show it or anything. >> Yeah. So they averaged 4.7 loose balls recovered uh for the season and in December they are 5.7. So they're actually averaging more loose balls recovered during this losing streak. >> That's just that's one hustle stat, right? Like I didn't I you can go into the box outs and the deflections and all that stuff, but they are they're diving on the floor for those 5050 balls. That's what I'm saying. like the there's a little bit of selection bias when you're watching a team lose and they're missing three-pointer after three-pointer and they're missing layup after layup and they start hanging their heads a little bit. It does start to But look again, when Dwayne Wade says that he doesn't see the effort, I I have to take his word. I have to listen to that. He's the guy that played in the league. I didn't play in the league. He's somebody that can't No offense to you, David, but you also didn't play in the league. And so when you say it's a lack of effort, it means one thing. But when Dwayne Wade says it, it just kind of means another thing. So, >> um I I think I think part of that is there and I think the fact that they weren't resilient and they weren't able to bounce back against Orlando or Toronto is meaningful. It would have been nice for them to advance in Las Vegas or to Las Vegas in that NBA cup. Uh I think Eric Sper even talked about it how they were shocked that they lost that game. there was a belief in that locker room that they were going to move on to Las Vegas. And when they believe that, that means that there's a want to, you know what I mean? Like they there was a desire to move on. They just they couldn't get it done for whatever reason. So, I I don't know. I hope this is a wakeup call and and they are able to play with a little bit more effort because obviously playing over your head offensively, that's not going to work. So, you have to make up for it somewhere and maybe it is just extra effort. >> Yeah. Um, the desire I'm sure is there, but at some point it have to you have to show that. I mean, I I don't know. It just there were just it felt like there were just too many opportunities where they kind of hung their head and just words um rising to certain possessions like like we talk about all the time, there are possessions there that can kind of absolutely swing momentum um and and have additional weight to them. you know, that's not just force a turnover, but like coming down and and getting a key stop. >> That's I think defensively is maybe where we've seen the most slippage. >> Yeah, no doubt. And I that's where I like even, you know, Bane going off the way he did and I know he was feeling it. Like there's only so much you can do when a player's on a heater like that, especially a player as competent as he was. Like he struggled this season obviously, but I mean he's had those moments throughout his career. So you knew that there were he was capable of them. But you would just have liked somebody to say, "No, no, I got this. I'm not going to let him score." >> Yeah. >> Uh and I don't think there was anybody on this team that was up to that point. Or you know what? Or even if you can't stop him because you know, sometimes that just happens. He says, "All right, I got this. I'm going to match you point for point." And that didn't happen either. They were just they were just kind of uh watching the spectacle more than anything else. So that's not what they need to do. They need to be much more involved, much more engaged with something on the line like that. And then to come back again, like I said, to come back after a, you know, demoralizing loss that, as you said, the team theoretically wanted to win and advance. They come into their home court, which they've been good this season in that regard, and they lay an absolute egg against a Toronto team that's feisty, but I still I don't think they're dominant. >> No. And they lost, like I said, they lost four in a row at that point. Um, expert takesmanship by Dwayne Wade to have this come out right before they play the Brooklyn Nets, which has been it will be the worst team they've played in a while. It's uh since the Sacramento Kings game. So, if they win that game, then he could be like, "See, my wakeup call worked. I still run that organization or whatever." Expert expert stuff from D. Wade there. Um, in terms of other ways to juice this team, I've got a surprising stat that could show the heat away to improve their offense. We're going to talk about that next here on Locked on Heat. >> Today's episode is brought to you by Game Time. The World Cup is coming back to North America for the first time since 1994. What a different world that was. And with 48 teams for the first time ever, it's going to be massive. But let's be honest, getting tickets is probably going to be the hardest part. And that's why the Game Time app is so clutch because it finally gives fans a real advantage when it comes to snagging seats. 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We'll see what happens uh Thursday night in Brooklyn. Surprising stat time. David, >> no team averages more points per possession when the roll man gets the ball in a pick and roll than the Miami Heat. They're averaging 1.27 points per possession. When the roll man gets the ball in a pick and roll this season, it is by far on the lowest rate in the league. And I do think that that has something to do with it, but that is a surprising number. And for an offense that when it feels like the three ball isn't going in, they don't really have much other recourse, especially when those layups from Haime and Wiggins and those guys aren't going in. >> Right. >> We've gotten a lot of questions about ways to get Kell Wear more involved, ways to get Bam out of bio more touches and get to see him get more aggressive on offense. Is this team's denial of the pick and roll, has it gone too far to the point where maybe they actually do need to include a few more pick and rolls in these games because two of their more off uh reliable offensive weapons, Bam and Claw Wear, are best suited as rollmen as as sort of traditional lob threats. I do wonder whether or not this team should start running a little bit more pick and roll. doesn't mean that they necessarily have to scrap the whole offense, but they're averaging between four and five pick and rolls per game. You could double that and still average the fewest pick and rolls in the league and uh and probably help out your offensive rating quite a bit here. >> Yeah, I I uh anything that will help obviously, but it almost feels like you're abandoning something that was working too quickly, too. So, but I I'd like the idea of, you know, having to find new ways of incorporating different sets and running offense just a little differently when those shots aren't falling. And I think that's the key thing is that we've seen from Miami over this fivegame losing streak and even prior to that, honestly, that when the shots don't fall, their offense is such a struggle and they're not getting the kind of production they need to find a way to win. And so, you have to be able to have more than one trick in your bag. You have to have a deeper repertoire than all that. So, I think Miami could afford to make some changes with the three-point offense, the way that we've seen it, that kind of fast motion offense still being the base of what they've tried to run for most of the game. So, yeah, I'm all for it. You know, I don't I don't know where the fine line is. Again, it feels like it feels like we're kind of prisoner of the moment here because at one point it works out and it's great, but the shots stop falling and it's like, well, we got to look for something different. So, I I think it's just that's just common sensical to me is that you know what, when the shots don't fall, what's your go-to move? What do you go to? You can't keep doing the same thing over and over and still put up 40ome three-point shots per game if you're shooting at 29% or less. Like, that's that's the way you're not going to win that. Your defense isn't good enough. Orlando can get away with that, and they have over the last couple of seasons, but their defense is good enough. Miami is not. And so, if you're going to rely on trying to outscore opponents, then you better find different ways of scoring. If your defense can't lock them down and shut them down and keep them from scoring, >> the Heat got rid of the ball screens and created this offense in order to improve the offense, not in order to get rid of ball screens. It's not as if Eric Spolstra is allergic to ball screens. He was just trying to find a system that took teams by surprise and maximized the abilities of this team. And I do think he found it. I still believe in this system despite the fiveame skid. And as we just talked about, a lot of these problems are with their defense, too. Now, they're still fourth in defensive rating. Their defense isn't a complete disaster. But over this fivegame losing streak, there's just been games where it just hasn't been as good, especially in fourth quarter and crunch time and execution time where it's been a little bit more glaring or where they've made uncharacteristic mistakes. You got to tighten those screws a little bit here defensively. But then offensively, again, you didn't get rid of ball screens because you're anti- ball screen. You got rid of ball screens because you were introducing a new system. And I said this in the leadup to Tyler Herro coming back. Everybody asked, "How's Tyler Herro going to play in this offense? He's a pick and roll ball handler. That's how he thrived last year and made his all-star game." And my answer to that was, "Let him run pick and roll." >> Yeah, >> he's the best guy on the team to do it. And it would maximize Kell Wear and it would help Bam Adabio get to his sweet spots a little bit more on that short roll free throw line jumper and all that stuff. Why not add it? if it's helpful, if it's additive, as long as it doesn't take away from the rest of the offense. And I haven't seen anything so far that leads me to believe that a little bit more pick and roll peppered in here would take away from the offense. In fact, we've seen it already. We've started to see these numbers trend upwards a little bit as this team has struggled. The problem is that Tyler Heroes missed three of these five losses with this injury. And so, you haven't had your best pick and roll ball handler out there. And then Khal's minutes have been up and down a little bit for for some reason. So, um I I I'm in favor of mixing in different looks because teams have clearly scouted Miami's offense already and they're better prepared for it than teams were at the beginning of the year. And I do, by the way, think that some of this pick and roll efficiency number stuff. I brought up the stat because I think it's a good uh jumping off point for this conversation. A lot of what's baked into that stat is the fact that nobody now is expecting the pick and roll. And so when it does happen, Miami usually just has a clear lane to the basket that goes, "Oh, wait. I thought they didn't run this stuff." >> But use that to your advantage, right? Like you you're in a fivegame losing streak. You don't have it like you don't you I don't think they were planning on waiting 82 games to start using pick and roll in the playoffs. You have to add this stuff in as the season goes on. I think now is the right time, David. >> Absolutely. I mean, you've got to do something. I don't think you're in a desperate mode necessarily, but uh you're at a point where you do have to try something differently than what you've done and and see if that works and if you can find the right balance. And we've heard Eric Sper talking about that like it not just with in terms of the blend of offense, but also finding the right combination of players and a rotation that might work. And so the injuries haven't helped, but that's on him. The challenge is on him to find the right combination of players, the right blend of offensive sets and how that ties together that could lead to a win. And I I don't think we've seen that either. I know that it's easy to criticize the players for their lack of effort, etc. But to be honest with you, I I I think Spo, as high as we were on him and what he was doing earlier and his willingness to make changes. And I think he should still get credit for all that. Now, we kind of need him to, as he says, find a counter to the counter. Like we know when a player starts to get better >> and he says, "Okay, now it's a matter of finding out when defenses start to key in on you. When defenses start to try and find ways of taking away your strength, how do you find a counter to the counter?" So that's what Spolzer has to do right now. >> That'll do it for us today. Thanks for tuning in to Locked on Heat. Make sure you're subscribed. Follow Locked on Heat so you get all the latest episodes. Find us on Twitter and Instagram at locked on heat. Did locked on heat make your Spotify wrapped? Prove it on social media to secure a free month of our brand new Everydayer Club. 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Miami Heat emerge as frontrunners in a potential Giannis Antetokounmpo trade as rival front offices quietly admit Miami’s offer—built around Tyler Herro, Kel’el Ware, and key draft assets—could top the market. Wes Goldberg and David Ramil spotlight why other NBA teams fear Pat Riley’s deal-making prowess, and debate what Miami must do to land a top-tier superstar amid Giannis’s injury concerns and shifting trade dynamics.

Dwyane Wade’s blunt critique of the Heat’s recent lackluster effort sparks questions about leadership and resilience after a frustrating skid and missed NBA Cup opportunity. The hosts explore advanced stats, the impact of recent injuries to Tyler Herro and Nikola Jović, and whether Miami’s strategy should pivot back to more pick-and-roll offense to maximize Bam Adebayo and Ware. Can Miami rediscover its trademark toughness and make the offensive adjustments needed for playoff contention?

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