The following is what Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sentinel about the Heat’s power forward situation. Love and Martin are the two leading candidates for the job. In addition to figuring out, who will take the 14th spot and potentially the 15th spot on the roster, the Heat needs to settle on a starter at power forward. Miami does have a pretty versatile roster. PG – Kyle Lowry, Jamarea Bouyea (2-way), Alondes Williams (TC) So we’re excited about it.” Heat’s Training Camp Roster Tyler is healthy, Jimmy and Ba m, that’s a great core. So we’re adding those guys to our mix and bringing everybody back. He’s a little bit older and he has a great deal of experience. He’s a guy you can plug and play right now. T h omas B ryant, who we’ve been a big fan of. Jo sh Richardson, getting another family member back into our program. It seems like it’s moving faster now than even four, five, six years ago. Things are so transient, things are moving fast. We’re bringing back the majority of our players and that’s a luxury in this league. Spoelstra, who is with Team USA in Abu Dhabi preparing for the FIBA World Cup, spoke to ESPN’s Brian Windhorst on NBA Today on Thursday. While Miami is still hopeful of landing Lillard at some point, head coach Erik Spoelstra is content with the Heat’s offseason and ready to move forward with the roster as it is. They also lost Gabe Vincent to the Los Angeles Lakers in free agency.Īdding those six players gives Miami 21 players, the maximum a team can take to training camp. Their biggest moves were trading Max Strusand Victor Oladipo to free up some money for Lillard and re-signing Kevin Love. Through the first month of free agency, the Heat had 15 players under contract, including two with two-way deals. Miami hasn’t done much this offseason, as they hoped to have a deal done for Lillard by now. NBA Rumors: Heat’s Erik Spoelstra Happy With Roster, Little To Do To me, Lillard has much of leverage based on how messy he's willing to make this (unknown) in what is reportedly Portland's only national TV game. Meanwhile, as of early this week, Portland was still showing no interest in doing a deal with Heat, who visit Blazers in late Feb. Currently, Portland doesn’t seem inclined to send him to Miami, as Barry Jackson of The Miami Herald tweeted. The Miami Heat are still hoping to convince the Portland Trail Blazers that they should help Damian Lillard land in his preferred destination.
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