{"id":632288,"date":"2026-03-01T13:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/632288\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T13:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T13:00:16","slug":"will-miami-heat-regret-davion-mitchell-nikola-jovic-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/632288\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Miami Heat regret Davion Mitchell, Nikola Jovic deals?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Q: You mentioned Norman Powell\u2019s extension in the piece about his injury and have mentioned Tyler Herro and his extension situation. Here\u2019s my question: What about the bad extensions the Heat gave out last summer? Nikola Jovic has been awful and Davion Mitchell is struggling. They should have waited. \u2013 Edwin.<\/p>\n

A: Which, of course, always is easier in hindsight. To be fair, Davion Mitchell has been playing through illness recently, but mostly has played to the value of his extension, which pays $11.6 million this season, less than the midlevel exception. And keep in mind, it only is a two-year deal, so it\u2019s not as if the Heat are locked into anything long-term, say if Kasparas Jakucionis is to emerge as their starting point guard. As for Nikola Jovic<\/a>, that extension is not looking great now, and for more than the $15 million average as much as it has four full seasons to run, starting with next season. So getting that right has to matter. For now, his back issue has him out of play.<\/p>\n

Q: On the topic of Herro vs. Powell, there can be little doubt that Tyler Herro has the most left in the tank (when he\u2019s available) and he still offers the hope of even more improvement.\u00a0 Norman Powell has visibly slowed<\/a> a step this season and has been turning the ball over at an alarming rate and will be on the downslide. Still a very good puzzle piece, but should be coming off the bench when he returns, as he had been nearly his entire career. \u2013 Brian, Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n

A: Which would require being paid as a reserve, which I\u2019m not sure Norman Powell would feel comfortable with coming off of an All-Star season. Either way, it would be difficult to envision the Heat extending both Tyler and Norman. For that matter, it might prove to be a case of neither this summer, with the Heat instead allowing Tyler to play out the final, 2026-27 season on his current contract.<\/p>\n

Q: Why is everyone so obsessed with Miami taking a step back and trying not to make the playoffs? Tyrese Maxey, and even Bam Adebayo are reminders that it\u2019s not always about having a Top 10 pick. I say keep playing hard and try to win every game and let the chips fall where they may.\u00a0 \u2013 David, Fort Laudderdale.<\/p>\n

A: But they also are very much the exceptions. It\u2019s a lot easier to get it right at No. 1 or No. 5 or No. 10 than at No. 14 or No. 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Q: You mentioned Norman Powell\u2019s extension in the piece about his injury and have mentioned Tyler Herro and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3778],"tags":[3879,7,144,165,295,189,3880,3881,6,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-632288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-heat","8":"tag-ask-ira","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-heat","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-miami","13":"tag-miami-heat","14":"tag-miami-heat-blog","15":"tag-miamiheat","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116154048403458860","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632288","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=632288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}