{"id":142969,"date":"2025-07-03T00:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T00:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/142969\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T00:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T00:43:10","slug":"heat-rumors-young-core-adebayo-herro-rozier-wiggins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/142969\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat Rumors: Young Core, Adebayo, Herro, Rozier, Wiggins"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been a relatively quiet free agency period so far for the Heat, who agreed to re-sign<\/a> Davion Mitchell<\/a> on Saturday and worked out a sign-and-trade deal<\/a> sending Duncan Robinson<\/a> to Detroit, but haven\u2019t made any veteran roster additions outside of Simone Fontecchio<\/a>, who will be sent to Miami in that trade with the Pistons.<\/p>\n

According to Barry Jackson of The Miami Herald<\/a>, Miami are content to \u201clet our young guys show what they can do\u201d this fall, with a full training camp together. As Jackson explains, the Heat believe they can\u2019t accurately judge the current group based on last season\u2019s results due to the Jimmy Butler<\/a> chaos, changing roles, and Andrew Wiggins<\/a>\u2018 health issues, among other factors.<\/p>\n

The team also believes that its young prospects \u2013 Kel\u2019el Ware<\/a>, Jaime Jaquez<\/a>, Nikola Jovic<\/a>, Pelle Larsson<\/a>, and Kasparas Jakucionis<\/a> \u2013 all have a chance to be \u201creally good players,\u201d with some of them set to take on increased roles this season, Jackson writes.<\/p>\n

The Heat are remaining open to taking a bigger swing if a star hits the trade market, but would only be aggressive if a player in his prime is available, Jackson continues. That\u2019s why Miami wasn\u2019t willing to go all-in for Kevin Durant<\/a>, with multiple sources telling the Herald that the team never thought it was close to landing the 36-year-old forward.<\/p>\n

Whether or not the Heat have the assets to beat out rival suitors if an in-his-prime star such as Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a> is on the trade block is a fair question, Jackson notes.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s more on the Heat:<\/p>\n

Miami haven\u2019t considered the idea of trading Bam Adebayo<\/a> and\/or Tyler Herro<\/a> in order to launch a rebuild, a source with knowledge of the situation tells the Herald. The Heat believe that tanking fails more often than it works and doesn\u2019t plan to rethink that philosophy, according to Jackson.
\nThe Heat also aren\u2019t weighing the idea of waiving and stretching the final year of Terry Rozier<\/a>\u2018s contract, which will pay him $26.6MM this season, Jackson says. Unlike Milwaukee with Damian Lillard<\/a>, Miami doesn\u2019t need the immediate cap savings, so the plan is to either trade Rozier at some point or simply keep him for next season, Jackson adds.
\nAlthough the Heat are entertaining inquiries on Wiggins, there\u2019s no urgency to move him, according to Jackson, who says the club acquired him from Golden State in February because it likes his game, not to use his contract in a subsequent deal. The Heat view him as a player who can complement Adebayo and Herro.
\nThe Heat officially signed undrafted rookie Vladislav Goldin<\/a> to a two-way contract on Wednesday. Our story on the deal can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been a relatively quiet free agency period so far for the Heat, who agreed to re-sign…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[500,1179,7,7278,313,229,981,938,2202,2248,1677,492,3548],"class_list":{"0":"post-142969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-andrew-wiggins","9":"tag-bam-adebayo","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-jaime-jaquez","12":"tag-jimmy-butler","13":"tag-kasparas-jakucionis","14":"tag-kelel-ware","15":"tag-kevin-durant","16":"tag-nikola-jovic","17":"tag-pelle-larsson","18":"tag-terry-rozier","19":"tag-tyler-herro","20":"tag-vladislav-goldin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114786533784677509","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}