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The Heat have been rebuilding around Tyler Herro and Bam Adebayo ever since Jimmy Butler was traded to the Warriors. But the direction in which that rebuild has been going so far is not very impressive to many experts around the NBA world. The Heat recently traded Haywood Highsmith to the Nets for a 2026 second-round pick. This did not sit well with Draymond Green, who took a shot at 'Internet experts' who followed the Heat and felt that Highsmith should have started over Jimmy Butler during his final months with the Heat. "Y'all (internet experts) wanted Jimmy to come off the bench behind dude, and 5 months later the Heat traded him for a bag of chips, that's wild."
Reaves will be a free agent. There is zero chance he is picking up his $14.9 million player option, even if he plans to stay with the Lakers. Reaves reportedly wants to be paid in the Tyler Herro range of $30 million a year (and Herro is a good comp in a lot of ways).
On Monday, I asked a longtime Eastern Conference scout to offer his perspective on Miami’s place in the East following the addition of Norman Powell. Some feedback: “Let’s start with who’s better. I see six teams for sure: New York, Cleveland, Orlando, Atlanta, Detroit, Milwaukee. Philadelphia is better if they’re healthy. So I would say the Heat’s a solid play-in team, in the same ballpark as Indiana and potentially better than Boston. They’re not 10 or 11; they’re more like 7, 8 or 9. “It’s around a .500 team. If they won 45, it would be a great year. They’re not bad, but they’re not good. Chicago is mediocre; the Heat is maybe a little better than mediocre. They have three very good NBA players with [Bam] Adebayo, [Tyler] Herro and Powell. We’ll see about Ware. Andrew Wiggins is meh at this point.”
What about Powell sharing some of the ball-handling duties with Herro and Adebayo if Mitchell plays off the bench? “Powell is not a handler,” the scout said. “He’s not a secondary ballhandler either, in my view. He is a scorer. He is laser focused on shooting and scoring.”
Amid the stream of Fischer and Bontemps’ reporting, one league source told NetsDaily where Thomas sees his market, using comparable players around the league: Jalen Green, making $33.3 million per year until 2027-28, when he has a $36 million player option Immanuel Quickley, making $32.5 million over the next four years Tyler Herro averaging $32 million over the next two years “That’s where he sees his market, if not higher,” said the source.
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A source familiar with Cam Thomas’ thinking said he does not consider himself inferior to Immanuel Quickley ($32.5 million this upcoming season), Tyler Herro ($31 million) or RJ Barrett ($27.7 million).
But Wade expanded on that three-word endorsement of Powell this week on the latest episode of his show, “Time Out with Dwyane Wade.” “He’s a great piece, man,” Wade said on his show. “Y’all know how good Norman is. He was an All-Star this year out there in the West. So for the Heat to be able to get a player like that with Bam [Adebayo], with Tyler [Herro] as the No. 1 and No. 2 options, all right. Let’s go.”
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The Miami Heat are an oft-mentioned potential Kuminga suitor and do have a clear need on the wing between All-Star guard Tyler Herro and All-Defensive Team big man Bam Adebayo. The Heat have also been linked to Kings scoring guard DeMar DeRozan by various league sources and likewise mentioned as a potential destination for Utah's very available John Collins.
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Miami Heat star Tyler Herro said he “doesn’t believe in history” before 1950 and some events after — including the moon landing and NBA legend Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point game. Herro, 25, was livestreaming with popular Twitch streamers Adin Ross and N3on last week when, about halfway through, a fan asked the 2019 first-round pick if he believed “Wilt [Chamberlain] would be top five in today’s league?” “I don’t even know what Wilt looked like, played like,” Herro admitted.
Ross then asked Herro if he thought Chamberlain “dropped 100” while playing for the Philadelphia Warriors in a game against the New York Knicks in March 1962. “Yeah,” the Kentucky alumni muttered, before questioning the popular streamer if he believed in history. “You think history is a real thing?” Herro asked, to which Ross replied with a confident “yeah.” “Nah, I don’t believe in history,” the NBA star said, shaking his head and leaning back in his chair. “No, I’m deadass.”
“What about the moon landing?” N3on asked. “Nah, I don’t believe in that. I don’t believe in anything that happened before 1950,” Herro doubled down, leaving the streamers briefly speechless.
Tyler Herro says he doesn't believe in history before 1950 😕 pic.twitter.com/dA5sD17OF8
— Underdog (@Underdog) June 13, 2025
Miami Heat star Tyler Herro is known for his sharpshooting on the court, but it turns out he’s developing a reputation as a front-office mastermind—at least in the virtual world. During a live stream with content creators Adin Ross and NEON on the Kick, Herro revealed a unique gaming habit that’s now going viral, he rebuilds every NBA team he plays against in NBA 2K. This candid moment came during a casual conversation streamed to thousands. In a clip shared by user @Vinod_r108 on X, formerly Twitter in response to a post from @Fearbuck, Herro explains that he often plays 2K’s “MyGM” mode after games, using real matchups as his inspiration.
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