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Eric Nehm: FINAL: Heat 145, Pacers 125 - Antetokounmpo 31pts/17reb/10ast - Adebayo 27pts/9reb/3ast - Thompson 25pts/3ast - Larsson 18pts/3reb/3ast - Mitchell 15pts/6reb/11ast - Wiggins 12pts The Heat are now 2-4 on the season. They start a 5-game West Coast trip on Monday vs. the Lakers.
“What I would tell him all the time is like, ‘You gotta do some of the things that you don’t want to do to do the things that you want to do,’” Warriors assistant Kris Weems told the Chronicle in October. “And I don’t think he really understood that. Steve wasn’t necessarily — he was asking, like, run the floor, get to the corner, and everything. But JK wasn’t always absorbing how important playing off the ball was for us. “Like, Wiggs figured it out, even though Wiggs didn’t always understand why he was in certain places,” Weems continued, reflecting on former Warriors forward Andrew Wiggins. “But he started to figure out the pin-ins, and how to be able to attack, using (Stephen Curry) as the decoy. JK just was like, ‘Just give me the ball, man.’”
Eric Nehm: FINAL: Mavericks 113, Heat 109 - Antetokounmpo 29pts/15reb/11ast - Mitchell 21pts/2ast/3stl - Wiggins 12pts/3reb - Larsson 12pts/4ast The Heat are now 0-4, continuing to look for answers to try to get into the win column. They play again on Wednesday in Atlanta.
Eric Nehm: FINAL: Timberwolves 131, Heat 106 - Antetokounmpo 35pts/6reb - Adebayo 15pts/7reb/4ast/3stl - Wiggins 11pts/2reb - Mitchell 11pts/10ast - Thompson 10pts The Heat are now 0-1 this season. Antetokounmpo put up great numbers, but Miami just didn't have any answers defensively.
CURRY WAS AMONG a large contingent within the Warriors initially skeptical of acquiring Butler after his elongated final chapter in Miami played out like a soap opera. They had discussed Zach LaVine as an alternative option, team sources said. Curry was also fond of Andrew Wiggins, a beloved teammate who helped push Curry to that legacy-cementing fourth title in 2022 but would need to be moved to make a deal work. So Curry, while informed, stayed mostly out of front office business, as he prefers.
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But when the Heat took the floor against the Raptors, Antetokounmpo set multiple screens for Davion Mitchell in semi-transition to initiate pick-and-roll actions between the point guard and big man. Antetokounmpo’s second of seven assists came on a set where he found Andrew Wiggins for a corner 3 as the roll man in a middle pick-and-roll with Mitchell. Overwhelmingly, the Heat still played at the same fast pace as last season and created most of their space through cutting and movement, but Antetokounmpo was setting on-ball screens for his teammates and trying to use his gravity to create for his teammates. And that was, well … different. “I think that’s something to get used to because last year, we didn’t run that many ball screens, especially in transition,” Mitchell told The Athletic after Miami’s practice Wednesday. “So, I gotta kind of get used to it just because of how much gravity (Antetokounmpo) brings and how much everyone knows he can finish at the rim.”
Anthony Chiang: Pelle Larsson and Andrew Wiggins, who are both sick, will not play in tonight's scrimmage. Keshad Johnson and Dru Smith also remain out with their respective injuries.
Zachary Weinberger: Asked Spo about Andrew Wiggins’ fit as a complementary piece next to Giannis and others: #Heat “He's been able to fit around great teams, great players, and do it seamlessly. Makes it look easier than it actually is, especially for a guy that used to be a number one option…”
Heat Central: Tim Hardaway Jr with high praise for Andrew Wiggins: “He does everything man. Guards the best player, rebounds the ball, can score, Jump over anybody and dunk on you. The sky is the limit for my man. He’s put in the work” Andrew Wiggins is going to be a very underrated piece to this Heat team this season. Expecting a big year for him 🔥 (@5ReasonsSports)
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Jon Krawczynski: Former Wolves executive Robby Sikka has developed a new app called SMART that helps people better understand their health and connect to care. Anthony Edwards, Karl-Anthony Towns and Andrew Wiggins are among the investors in this technology. getsmart.app
Kwame Brown: "I thought LeBron James was a regular individual and then I realized he's a part of a group. LeBron James is a machine, it's a marketing machine, he's not an individual. And so, once I realized that, when you go up against a machine, it gives off toxic waste. So what makes it look good, it destroys things around it. And if you look at the careers that he's destroyed, Westbrook, you got Dalton Knecht because of his son, he didn't get a chance to develop. And he comes there with Andrew Wiggins as the number one draft pick, they make up stories about him to trade him for Kevin Love. It's just like I know what that's like and when I see him go places, I'm like, okay, I want to know which player is going to have to be taken away from for this machine to still look like what it is."
Mitchell also spoke of the tantalizing defensive possibilities with a roster featuring Antetokounmpo, Bam Adebayo, Andrew Wiggins and himself. “People knew where to put Bam because they know how good he is defensively,” Mitchell said. “But now they have [to deal with] Giannis too? Where are they going to put him? I can pick somebody out of bounds, and if they blow by me, I know someone will have my back. “They want to win Defensive Player of the Year too just as much as we do. We have this competitive spirit, where, ‘I’m trying to win Defensive Player of the Year’ and ‘I’m trying to win Defensive Player of the Year.’ “We have three, really four [great defenders], with Wiggs. There are some matchups he guards the best player. Sometimes I do. I’ve got shifty, quicker guys. He’s got guys who are much taller, get to their spots. The defense is going to be amazing. I can’t wait.”
Heat Central: Donovan Mitchell believes this Heat team adding Giannis and Klay Thompson will be a dangerous team: “All he (Klay) gotta do is stand right there because Giannis has so much gravity. If you help on Giannis, who you gonna help off of? That’s what makes them dangerous. They also got Davion, Wiggins, Bam, Larsson. And they got Spo. He’s a great coach. — Klay is a top 5 shooter ever!”