The Miami Heat have a big offseason ahead, but let’s still review what happened this season! To continue with our Miami Heat player review series, we delve into hyper-athletic swingman Keshad Johnson! Past Player Reviews: Brief Overview: 2025-26 stats (32 games): Johnson’s role was more prominent in 2025-26, although he was still on the outside-looking-in […]
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We are rolling onward with our 2025-26 Miami Heat player review series. Today, we break down the season from third-year wing Jaime Jaquez Jr.! Let’s dive into it! Past Player Reviews: Brief Overview: 2025-26 stats (75 games): Heading into 2025-26, question surrounded whether Jaquez was going to acclimate and bounce back from his dismal 2024-25 […]
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While he didn’t play a second in their first-round series due to a hamstring injury, Denver Nuggets fourth-year wing revealed himself as arguably the Nuggets’ biggest X-Factor. Now, he will enter restricted free agency for the first time in his career after the organization elected to pay Christian Braun instead of him last summer. At […]
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We are rolling onward with our 2025-26 Miami Heat player review series. And today, we break down the season from rookie guard Kasparas Jakucionis. Let’s dive into it! Past Player Reviews: Brief Overview: 2025-26 stats (53 games): Jakucionis was the No. 7 player on my 2025 big board entering the draft. I didn’t think there […]
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The Miami Heat are returning to participate in the California Classic Summer League event, hosted in Sacramento and San Francisco, for the eighth-straight season, the league announced Wednesday. The Heat will in the San Francisco pod, which features the Los Angeles Lakers, San Antonio Spurs and Golden State Warriors, held on July 3, 5 and […]
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The Miami Heat are returning to participate in the California Classic Summer League event, hosted in Sacramento and San Francisco, for the eighth-straight season, the league announced Wednesday. The Heat will in the San Francisco pod, which features the Los Angeles Lakers, San Antonio Spurs and Golden State Warriors, held on July 3, 5 and […]
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As we summarized in his player review, which you can find here, it was a turbulent 2025-26 season for Miami Heat guard Tyler Herro. And there are breadcrumbs to suggest he may not be back in 2026-27. Now, at the end of the day, all of it speculatory until it’s not. Herro has been at […]
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Earlier this week, Miami Heat president Pat Riley conducted his annual end-of-season press conference. While many of Riley’s comments were similar to years past, from the team’s anti-tanking doctrine to the 81-year-old, once again, dismissing any rumors about him retiring, the longtime executive — still sharp as a whip — dropped a couple of interesting […]
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NBA offseason rumors are upon us, and the Miami Heat are already at the thick of it as a destination spot for several stars that could hit the trade market. It’s no secret that Giannis Antetokounmpo will assuredly be Miami’s plan A. But if that falls through, a couple other aging stars have been linked […]
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After surviving trade rumors throughout his seven-year career, Tyler Herro and the Miami Heat may be “heading for a divorce” this summer. Following his All-Star campaign in the 2024-25 season, Herro put together a nightmare 2025-26. Not because of his numbers or play on the court, but because of something that has held him back […]
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We are two weeks removed from the conclusion of the 2025-26 Miami Heat season. Our player review series is back! Over the next several days, we will be reviewing how each Heat player performed throughout their campaign. Here is ours for Tyler Herro! Past Player Reviews: Brief Overview: 2025-26 stats (33 games): It was a […]
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On multiple occasions, guard Norman Powell has shown interest in staying with the Miami Heat. While his future remains uncertain, that interest appears to be mutual, according to NBA insider Jake Fischer of The Stein Line. “The Heat have interest in bringing him back,” Fischer said recently on Bleacher Report. “What’s going to happen with […]
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When the greatest player in franchise history speaks up on the current state of the team— you listen. And that’s exactly what former Miami Heat icon Dwyane Wade did recently. Miami had just suffered a season ending play-in elimination, making it the first time since the 2018-19 campaign (ironically in Wade’s farewell tour season) that […]
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When Andrew Wiggins first arrived from the Jimmy Butler trade for the Miami Heat, the organization knew they were getting an established 3 & D wing with championship experience. And that’s exactly what he has been throughout his one-and-a-half seasons in Miami. As the 2014 draft number one overall pick over a decade ago, Wiggins […]
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The Miami Heat’s season ended in painful fashion with a 127-126 overtime loss to the Charlotte Hornets in the 9-10 play-in game earlier this month. So it’s officially time for the offseason, where the Heat will have plenty of work ahead of them. Let’s examine their cap situation this summer! Heat players under contract: As […]
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We are roughly two weeks removed from the conclusion of the 2025-26 Miami Heat season. Our player review series is back! Over the next several days, we will be reviewing how each Heat player performed throughout their campaign. Here is ours for Simone Fontecchio! Brief Overview: 2025-26 stats (70 games): Fontecchio spent most of his […]
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“I’m not going to retire. I’m not going to resign. I’m not going to step aside”… those were one of Pat Riley’s very first words at his 2025-26 end of season press conference. Riley has been the face of the Miami Heat franchise for decades now, and at the age of 81, he is still […]
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The Miami Heat ended another rocky 2025-26 season is disappointment as they were eliminated in the play-in tournament— marking the franchise’s first time since 2019 that they failed to reach the NBA Playoffs. Additionally, it was their first out of four straight appearances that they were unable to make it out of the play-in. Miami […]
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Miami Heat guard Tyler Herro will undergo a minor procedure this week on his right foot that isn’t expected to “significantly” affect his offseason regimen, according to Heat insider Ethan Skolnick from Five Reasons Sports Network first reported on Monday. Herro missed a career high 49 games due to myriad injuries this season, including the […]
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We are roughly two weeks removed from the conclusion of the 2025-26 Miami Heat season. Our player review series is back! Over the next several days, we will be reviewing how each Heat player performed throughout their campaign, beginning with the team’s captain, Bam Adebayo. Brief Overview: 2025-26 stats (73 games): For the second straight […]
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After another disappointing season, the Miami Heat have plenty of questions to answer this summer. There are plenty of changes that must happen to breach this ceiling. Most importantly, they must pick a direction. If you know me, you know which direction I still lean. Even though we’re over two months away from the start […]
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Out of all the ups and down that a fourth straight mediocre play-in season brought to the Miami Heat, the play of Jaime Jaquez Jr. was one of the highlights. And he may have just been snubbed from a well deserved award. Jaquez was named a finalist for the NBA’s Kia Sixth Man of the […]
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It’s impossible not to think back to the unprecedented shooting bombardment Boston endured in a Game 2 loss to the Miami Heat in the opening round of the 2024 playoffs, which will have happened two years to the day when the Celtics travel to Philadelphia for Game 3 of their current first round matchup. On […]
One of the premier positives of the rocky 2025-26 Miami Heat season was how many of their young players progressed, namely Kel’el Ware, Jaime Jaquez Jr. and Pelle Larsson. Ware, in particular, showcased several flashes of stardom — even though consistency still lacked from the sophomore big. Nevertheless, Ware turned in a productive year across […]
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As the Miami Heat’s forgetful 2025-26 campaign is officially over, there was still a sour taste left in the end. Of course, Miami fell short to the Charlotte Hornets in the 9-10 play-in matchup in an overtime thriller. However, it’s only fair to assume if there would still be Heat basketball being played had their […]
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