\n\t\t\tJuly 24th 2025 at 2:10pm CST by Dana Gauruder \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Do the Heat need to add another center? Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sun Sentinel<\/a> believes so.<\/p>\n While they have Kel\u2019el Ware<\/a> and Bam Adebayo<\/a> to play that position, the Heat\u2019s options are limited if either has to miss a game or gets in foul trouble.\u00a0 Nikola Jovic<\/a> would be playing out of position if he\u2019s utilized as the No. 3 option and rookie Vladislav Goldin<\/a>, who is on a two-way deal, lacks agility to make defensive switches. However, the Heat are already over the luxury tax, which complicates any effort to bring in a veteran for depth.<\/p>\n We have more on the Heat:<\/p>\n Terry Rozier<\/a>\u2018s trade value is practically non-existent, according to Winderman<\/a>, who doubts any other team would look to acquire him without a sweetener. The Heat aren\u2019t in a position to do that, since they still owe a first-round pick to Charlotte for the Rozier acquisition. The only other trade scenarios involving Rozier, in Winderman\u2019s estimation, is a team looking to acquire his expiring contract for a player signed beyond next season or his salary being packaged as part of a bigger deal.
\nOne thing about Goldin that endeared him to the coaching staff during Summer League appearances was his motor, according to the Miami Herald\u2019s Anthony Chiang<\/a>. \u201cVlad was really good for us,\u201d Heat assistant coach and Summer League head coach Eric Glass said. \u201cHe plays so freakin\u2019 hard out there. He plays so physically. You\u2019d like to have him on the floor even longer, but he goes so hard, sometimes he burns himself out. That\u2019s why we love him,\u201d Glass said. The former University of Michigan big man, who was undrafted, averaged 9.2 points and 4.8 rebounds in six games this month.
\nKeshad Johnson<\/a> has a guaranteed $1.955MM contract for next season and he doesn\u2019t want to wind up at the end of the bench. \u201cThe goal is to crack the Heat\u2019s rotation and prove that I belong on the floor,\u201d Johnson said entering his second NBA season. Johnson\u2019s Summer League outings were generally positive, according to Chiang<\/a>, but somewhat inconsistent. Johnson would have to leapfrog two or three other players at the small forward spot to get minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 24th 2025 at 2:10pm CST by Dana Gauruder Do the Heat need to add another center? Ira…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3778],"tags":[1179,7,144,1248,295,189,3881,6,2202,1677,3548],"class_list":{"0":"post-192392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-heat","8":"tag-bam-adebayo","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-heat","11":"tag-keshad-johnson","12":"tag-miami","13":"tag-miami-heat","14":"tag-miamiheat","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-nikola-jovic","17":"tag-terry-rozier","18":"tag-vladislav-goldin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114910212126767907","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192392","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=192392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}