Miami Heat MISSED OUT On A Franchise Changing Moment

Miami Heat MISSED OUT On A Franchise Changing Moment

I’m in absolute shambles. There’s no other way to put it. After what happened in the NBA draft lottery on Monday night, it feels like the Miami Heat missed out on a chance to turn their franchise around and really make a push to be one of the top teams in the Eastern Conference over the next decade. I’m Nick Rolloff. This is the Heat Report by Chat Sports. You might be wondering why. Well, guess what, folks? The Mavericks won the lottery. They just won Cooper Flag. They went into the draft, the lottery with the 11th odds to get the number one pick. 1.8% chance. If you do not remember, that was the Miami Heats lottery pick before they made the NBA playoffs. If the Heat just lost to the Bulls in the playin or lost to the Hawks in the planin, the Heat would have had Cooper flag, we are cursed. I I mean, there’s just no other way to put it. And for the people in the comments that will say, “Well, we wouldn’t have won the lottery because it’s a different No, no. It’s the same. The 11th pick combination odds that won the lottery. It doesn’t matter who had the 11th pick. It’s a matters that the 11th pick won the lottery, which would have been Miami. I am so utterly disgusted. I have never been more upset around the Miami Heat, I think, in my entire life than last night because they made the playoffs in a meaningless throwaway year. lost in embarrassing fashion. The largest deficit in a series in history, losing one playoff game, by the way, by 55% or 55 points. Like, how ridiculous is that? And they lost out on their chance to get Cooper flag. Just absolutely ridiculous. I’m You can’t tell I’m absolutely furious. Like I I it’s hard to put my anger into words to be honest, but let me know. Are you pissed about what just happened over the last 24 hours? Rate your anger level on a scale of 1 to 10. Mine is I don’t even know how many zeros I put. I I really just when I was typing out the script, making the graphics, whole nine yards. I just typed in as many zeros as I thought would fit on this bottom L3 here because I like I was crashing out on Twitter yesterday after it was announced. And you know the fun thing is it’s not fun but I tweeted out yesterday morning when I woke up can’t wait for the Mavericks to move up in the lottery so I crash out because I always knew the Heat were going to find a way to screw themselves. And the part that really sucks to me is not that I am acting as some frontr runner here about being upset but I want the Heat to make the playoffs. No, I was very much adamant about the Heat missing the playoffs and rebuilding for the future through the draft because as much as the front office tries to deny it, the only way to really improve long term is via the draft and it tries to say that it can’t and it and they don’t want to tank. They don’t want to be picking the lottery. But how are they where they are right now? They drafted Tyler Herro and Bamabio in the lottery. They drafted Dwayne Wade inside the top five. Like I I don’t get the thought process of not wanting to be in the lottery. If your team has no chance to win the title, I’m not saying tank, but you got to be in the lottery to potentially take one of these top end prospects. You see it here. February 14th. February 14th, the Heat are going nowhere. It’s time to tank. It’s time to lose games. And then when the Heat were getting absolutely obliterated and when they made the playoffs and they lost to the first round in the Cavs, I tweeted out this might have ruined the team’s best chance of being a title cer next five years. And then on the night the Heat beat the Hawks in the playin game to make the postseason, a lot of people are going to refer to my excitement, my reaction to DaVon Mitchell in overtime. I’ll always admit if the Heat are on the TV, it’s going to be hard for me to root against them, but my stance was always for the Heat to the playoffs. And this was tweeted out right after the game went final against the Hawks. On the real, I’m sick of being not being in the lottery in such a low class. Only way I get over this is if Miami beats the Cavs. Well, they did not. They got abolished. They got obliterated. And the thing that’s so frustrating to me is that I don’t even really like I wasn’t expecting to get the number one pick if you’re in the lottery. It just adds salt into the wound. I was just happy to be in the 11th pick potentially and get a top prospect in a loaded lottery class. And you don’t want to add in even more of a disaster here. It’s not even that the Heat would have had Cooper flag and missed out on him. is that he went to the Dallas effing Mavericks, a team that, yeah, I know it was over a decade ago. I still can’t stand them. I hate the Mavericks with every fiber in my being. They’re up there with the Knicks, the Celtics, is teams that I hate in the NBA because of the battles we had in the late 2000s, early 2010s. I truly do believe that yesterday was one of the darkest days in Miami Heat history. the fact that he went to the Mavericks, which would have been the Miami Heat if they ultimately missed the playoffs. All they had to do is lose to the Bulls or the Hawks. Instead, they wanted to be playin Warriors and say, “You know what? We can make the playoffs. We’ll get playoff experience for KL Wear and Himeme Hawkeye Jr.” News flash barely played in the playoffs because he was unplayable and Hawkeyez Jr. sucks. Glad some fans wanted that though. To me, this feels worse than losing the finals. Like, I’ve witnessed multiple finals loss in my fandom, and I’m sure all of you have as well against the Mavericks, against the Spurs, against the Lakers, against the Nuggets, four of them. I feel as bad waking up on this Tuesday morning, Tuesday afternoon, as I did the day after those series went finals against the Mavericks, Spurs, Lakers, Nuggets. That’s how disgusted I feel knowing that we missed out on Cooper Flat. It just feels terrible. It feels like we will never have a chance to win. It really does. No chance ever. You You It would have been a lottery card. It would have been a lottery ticket. That’s why it’s called the lottery, folks, because we would have somehow went from mediocrity in the East to a chance to be at the top of the East in three to four years. Unbelievable. But that’s why you subscribe to the channel because, well, we talk about the good, bad, and the ugly around the Miami Heat on a daily basis. Hit that sub button. Join the channel today for daily Miami Heat content. This was the full draft lottery results by the way and I wanted to showcase this because not only did the Heat miss out on Cooper flag and the number one pick went to the Mavs which was the Heats draft slot if they missed the play in the implications of this lottery result will absolutely be massive. There’s a couple teams that I want to point out here. One, Philly moved up from five to three. They kept their pick. It was top six protected, but now they have the choice of Ace Bailey, BJ Edgecom, and whoever they want outside of Dylan Harper and Cooper Black. The Spurs moving up to number two is fascinating for a lot of reasons. Now, you might say Miami got a little bit of help in terms of Charlotte moving down to four, Washington down to six. Two division rivals not in the top three, which was the projected number for those two teams. They remember they tied for the number one odds at 14%. But these results set up a lot of things here because San Antonio jumping up from eight to number two, we have labeled them as a team for Giannis Anton Kmpo in a trade. And right now that feels like the most likely outcome. Now, I’m not ruling out, by the way, the Dallas Mavericks going rogue with Nico Harrison once again trading the number one pick for Giannis. Now, I actually would rather have the number one pick in this draft than Anthony Koopo because of Cooper Flag’s ability to me of an NBA MVP type of guy and being 18 years old while Giannis is 30 and you have Cooper Flag on $13 million per season over the next four years rather than paying Giannis 60 plus million for the remainder of his career. So, I would rather have the number one pick, but if you’re San Antonio, you have so many pieces. the number two pick would be highly coveted and you could trade less now for Anthony Koopo then you would have had to if you kept the eighth pick rather than moving up to number two like Dylan Harper would be such a like holy crap are we getting lucky here if you’re Milwaukee like if you’re the Bucks can you get Devin Vel Jeremy Sohan Kell Johnson the number two pick for Giannis like I would be thrilled with that you instantly add Harper and Vel to your team. Hello. And not to mention the fact if you’re San Antonio now, you get to potentially keep Stefan Castle because you got the number two pick and now you have Fox, Castle, Wem, and Giannis. Like, it just adds a lot here. But I know we’re talking about the NBA as a whole and not the Heat here. But when you really dive into it, there is a silver lining for Miami in a positive spin. Like, is the door getting open in the Eastern Conference? If Giannis truly does get traded out west to the Dallas Mavericks or the Spurs, which I think is the most likely outcome at this point, like he’s out of your conference. You don’t have to deal with him until the NBA Finals. And this is terrible. I hate to bring this up, but Jason Tatum last night in that game against the Knicks looks like he tore his Achilles. We’ll see the official ruling, but most people believe it is a serious Achilles injury, which means he is probably out for the 2026 season. And the Celtics are now not really a legit title contender in 2026. And as sad as that is, and prayers up to Tatum, the East may be wide open. Giannis out, Tatum out for 2026. The best teams in the East next year might be the New York Knicks, Indiana Pacers, Detroit Pistons, and Cavaliers. Like, if I’m Miami, I’m probably all in on KD now. And we’ve talked a lot about how KD is probably the top option for Pat Riley in the Heat this off season. But now that you know Tatum might be out for a year, Giannis might be leaving the conference, that just to me shows added incentive of maybe trying to capitalize on this two to threeyear window of the Celtics almost retooling the Bucks going into a full rebuild. And you might try to go for the Darela right now, who by the way, yeah, he’s going to be 37 in the fall, is still elite, one of the best peer scorers in the NBA. I don’t know how you don’t want to acquire Durant because you’d keep hero, you’d keep Bam. We always talked about a hero, Bam, KD, big three, if you will, being a top four or five team in the East. Well, next year, if you do that, it might be top two or three team in the East. If Durant continues to play at the level he is, because now Hero gets a burden off of his shoulder, and he’s going to hopefully continue to improve his game. Adabio moves to his more natural role on the offensive end as a third option and is able to be that elite defensive chess piece that he has been so often in his career. Like it just makes more and more sense to go in for KD now that you’ve seen the Eastern Conference potentially having window of possibility here with Tatum’s injury and with Jiannis Antono out of the conference and maybe you were not in on Katie and you wanted to just stay young. Have you changed your tune now? Could and should the Miami Heat trade for Kevin Durant? Type T for trade, type P for pass. Let me know your thoughts. Most of you know my KD trade idea. It’s Wiggins and Duncan for salary, Hawz, and maybe two first round picks. Like, if you do that trade, you still have one players to complement KD Bam and Hero. You’d still have a Yoic. You could resign DaVon Mitchell. still have Palo Larson, but you would also have more assets to make a move if you did that trade. And you might not have to offer two first round picks for KD because if Houston does not really go into the KD sweep stakes, then who are you competing against for Durant? Minnesota. They don’t have a lot they can offer picks-wise. What kind of young players can they offer? Is Rob Dillingham that enticing for Phoenix? Probably not. Is Terence Shannon? Like, who are the Timberwolves trading? Because they don’t have a lot of tradable first round picks. So, your offer might be able to beat Minnesota’s pretty easily by offering one first round pick. And how about this craziness? Now, this is a pure hypothetical, but I thought it was fun to talk about. What if you went all in for the next three seasons? You acquired both KD and John Mor. you are financially able to do so. And I think there is a pathway. You see the trade for KD, it just gets opened up to a three-team deal where maybe instead of two first round picks, you offer the 20th pick in this draft and a 2027 second round pick to get Durant, but then you package two first rounders in 2030 and 2032 alongside Nicole Yovic Rosir and Kyle Anderson for John Moran. And maybe you might need to trade for more for John a vacuum. But there is also a avenue I think that the Grizzlies ultimately just say, you know what, we want to move off of Morant. He’s too injuryprone. The off the court concerns we don’t want to deal with anymore. We’ll recoup a young player salary and two firsts. Well, then if you’re able to pull this off, yeah, you unload every tradeable pick possible. And you could include pick swaps in here, by the way, to help sweeten the deal with Phoenix or Memphis. I just didn’t include those in the package. But now you have a starting lineup where we kept Colar a back court of Jaw Tyler Herro front court of KD Bam and Wear like that’s an allstar level team that is four all-star level players with a rising secondyear center in KL Wear and we would by the way have a bench of Pel Larson and Haywood Highmith. Yeah, you would need to add a lot of players to that roster likely on vetmin UDFA potentials as well. And your bench and depth might be in question, but it works financially for this season at least and you have the draft capital to potentially make it happen. Now, I will be honest, if you’re talking from a realistic lens, there is an absolute 0% chance that happens and like none better chance of like becoming the next pope. like me personally like that that’s the same amount of chances as Pat Riley making that trade but you want to talk about a fun hypothetical to go all in in a week east and it just shows you the possibilities that Miami has this off season and maybe they now get more aggressive seeing the Giannis stuff seeing the Jason Tatum injury and it’s just like okay hold on maybe we were just going to try to like figure out how to be a competitive team in East again but now that We’ve seen dominoes fall. All right, now we go all in. We try to pounce on this two to threeyear window because as good as the Knicks have looked in this playoffs, like I’m still not sold on that. Like I’m not scared of them. I really am not. Like I I I truly believe a team that is really put together from Miami’s point of view where you get Tyler Hero help in the back court, add another wing scorer, and still have Bam there. Like I think that could compete, man. I do. So, is this the one way I’m pulled back in? Maybe. But like, my goodness, it it’s hard for me not to get giddy, excited about like, all right, let’s make a move. It’s like a horse race. They’re they’re they’re falling back a little bit in the front. Timer to make our move from the back. Why not? and we’ll be here all off season long. So, hit that sub button for Daily Miami Heat content. A little bit of a weird video here today, I know, but I just had to get my thoughts on what happened in the NBA last night because it was one of the most maybe monumental nights in the NBA that we’ve seen in a while between the lottery odds, Tatum’s injury, like a lot of the NBA landscape changed. So, we had to come over and talk about it.

The 2025 NBA Draft Lottery finished Monday night in a wild fashion which saw the Dallas Mavericks win the top pick, and the right to draft Duke F Cooper Flagg. Miami Heat fans aren’t happy as the Mavericks won the lottery with the exact chances the Miami Heat would have had if they missed the NBA Playoffs. Heat Report host Nic Rohloff talks about all the Miami Heat news following the NBA Draft Lottery and how it impacts the NBA landscape. Also featured in this Miami Heat YouTube show, Jayson Tatum injury news could greatly impact the Eastern Conference in 2026.

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Miami Heat trade rumors on Kevin Durant and Ja Morant could heat up in the NBA Offseason as well. Heat president Pat Riley could decide to make a big splash this offseason to compete in the Eastern Conference if Giannis Antetokounmpo is traded to the West, and Jayson Tatum is out for the 2026 NBA Season.

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