{"id":384078,"date":"2025-11-02T16:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T16:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/384078\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T16:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T16:50:10","slug":"heat-notes-powell-rozier-herro-jakucionis-morant-laroche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/384078\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat Notes: Powell, Rozier, Herro, Jakucionis, Morant, LaRoche"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heat guard Norman Powell<\/a> is in the final year of his contract, which will pay him $20.48MM in 2025\/26. He will remain extension-eligible through June 30, 2026, and if a deal is not reached he will become an unrestricted free agent.<\/p>\n

According to Anthony Chiang of The Miami Herald<\/a>, Powell recently made it clear he hopes to sign a long-term extension with the Heat.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love it here. I love everything about the Heat,\u201d Powell emphasized. \u201cI loved them before. They were on my list before I signed my extension in Portland. I wanted to come here and play for the Heat. So I\u2019m excited. I like the culture. I like what they have going on here. I like the mentality and the approach. I feel like they take guys to the next level. They push them past their own expectations, they have high standards. And I always like being around people that have high aspirations and high goals for themselves. It fits who I am, so I want to be here. Hopefully they feel the same way.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Chiang writes, Powell was off to a hot start to the season, averaging 24.0 points, 7.3 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 2.0 steals on .477\/.500\/.913 shooting in three games (31.0 minutes per contest) before suffering a right groin strain that has caused him to miss the past two. The 32-year-old is questionable for Sunday\u2019s contest at the Lakers.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully [the Heat] like everything that\u2019s happened so far and what I bring to the table outside of just on the court,\u201d said Powell, who recently described himself as \u201csuper low-maintenance.\u201d \u201cBut just who I am every single day, stepping into the arena, integrating myself with the team and the staff and the members around. Hopefully everybody appreciates my presence and we\u2019ll be able to get something done. But, yeah, I want to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

Ira Winderman of The South Florida Sun Sentinel<\/a> lists the short-term steps he believes commissioner Adam Silver should take to give the Heat more cap and roster flexibility in the wake of Terry Rozier<\/a>\u2018s arrest \u2014 the veteran guard is facing two federal charges<\/a> as part of an illegal gambling probe. While the information isn\u2019t really relevant now, a source tells Winderman that the Heat considered waiving Rozier before the season began (a small portion of his contract was non-guaranteed at the time) and also had buyout discussions with the 31-year-old.
\nAll-Star Tyler Herro<\/a> (left ankle surgery) and rookie guard Kasparas Jakucionis<\/a> (right groin strain) are traveling with the team on its current four-game road trip, which ends Wednesday in Denver, per Chiang of The Miami Herald<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s good for them,\u201d Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said about Herro and Jakucionis joining the team on the road. \u201cFor us, sure, it\u2019s always good to have them around. But I think it just speeds up the whole process when they\u2019re around the guys, around the game, around the whole travel routine, and participating in some of the things that they can do, which they did this morning.\u201d Both players are out on Sunday, though Jakucionis is closer to making his season debut \u2014 the 2025 first-round pick is considered day-to-day.
\nAlthough the Heat have expressed \u201cmore than passing\u201d interest in Ja Morant<\/a> in the past, Winderman<\/a> doesn\u2019t expect the team to explore the possibility of buying low on the Grizzlies guard in the wake of his latest off-court incident<\/a>, which resulted in a one-game suspension<\/a> for detrimental conduct following a disagreement with the coaching staff.
\nSpeaking of the Grizzlies, former assistant coach Noah LaRoche is now a consultant with the Heat, who have implemented the movement-heavy offense LaRoche was in charge of last season with Memphis, sources tell Brian Windhorst of ESPN<\/a>. It\u2019s only been five games, but the Heat currently rank seventh in the league in offensive efficiency after finishing 21st, 21st and 25th in the league in that category over the past three years, Windhorst notes. \u201cYou know Spo is running the polar opposite of the system that [Heat president] Pat Riley used to run, where he called every play and each play design was exact,\u201d a league executive said. \u201cAnd it makes me further appreciate and respect that the organization is about the right s\u2014. They\u2019re about exploring and teaching in Miami.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heat guard Norman Powell is in the final year of his contract, which will pay him $20.48MM in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[2214,7,1200,178,229,52521,558,2483,1677,492],"class_list":{"0":"post-384078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-adam-silver","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-erik-spoelstra","11":"tag-ja-morant","12":"tag-kasparas-jakucionis","13":"tag-noah-laroche","14":"tag-norman-powell","15":"tag-pat-riley","16":"tag-terry-rozier","17":"tag-tyler-herro"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115481137867333092","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384078","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=384078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}