How the Miami Heat Can Add Another Center & Draymond Green Calls Out Heat For Highsmith Trade

How the Miami Heat Can Add Another Center & Draymond Green Calls Out Heat For Highsmith Trade

After struggling for most of last season, could Terry Rosier’s days in Miami be nearly at an end? We break down the possibilities on today’s episode of Locked on Heat. [Music] You are Locked on Heat, your daily Miami Heat podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network. Your team every day. All right, welcome to Locked on Heat, your daily podcast on the Miami Heat. Whether you’re tuning in on YouTube or your favorite podcast app, thanks for making Locked on Heat your first listen every day. I’m Wes Goldberg here with David Ramil. Both of us are credentialed Heat Media members who cover this team every day. For daily content on the Heat, join more than 17,000 Everydayers and click that subscribe button on YouTube. Today’s episode is brought to you by FanDuel. Football season is around the corner. Visit the FanDuel app today. Start planning your future bets now. Dolphins with a nice little preseason win on Saturday. David, uh, how are we feeling about the Dolphins? There’s still the Dolphins, so I don’t know that there’s much to be optimistic about. You know, preseason win notwithstanding. A lot of injuries lately. It’s um, it does seem like and but you know what? There has been some on the- field success. They tied the Bears. I thought they looked okay in the first preseason game. They looked they won the second preseason game. No starters played, but wins a win, I guess, but yeah, maybe not in the preseason. Um, we do have a fun show for you today. We’re still talking about the fallout of the Heats moves to trade Haywood Heismith, sign Drew Smith, get under the luxury tax. We’re going to talk about a creative way the Heat can sign another player, perhaps a potential big man here in a second. But first, Count Draymond Green among the critics of the Heat’s decision to trade Haywood Highmith. He uh went on social media and said essentially and you can see it here up on YouTube. Y’all internet experts wanted Jimmy to come off the bench behind the dude. Dude being Heywood Highmith and five months later that he traded him for a bag of chips. That’s wild, David. Uh we could get into this but like this is just this is some next level straw manning. Who has said this? Who said this? Who said that the Heat wanted to bench Jimmy Butler for Hwood Highmith at any point? Like, what is this weird internet straw manning that Draymond is doing here? Well, I don’t know that anybody actually said that, but I mean, that was the the plan, right? I mean, that was what was going on with Miami had he not been suspended a number of times, he was going to be coming off the bench. At least that was the the idea that I So, I and I think that’s what it is. Maybe they’re internet experts or not, but I I think Draymond’s kind of overlooking the the huge elephant in the room and he’s just like, “No, that that elephant ain’t here, which is Jimmy was being a complete jerk and he was kind of, you know, sabotaging the entire season.” And I get he wanted to get paid and he was done and he was making all these public uh announcements via the media about being unhappy and couldn’t finding find his joy, etc. But he was just he was just done with the year. he was done with the team and he was kind of making a big stink about it and that’s why he was coming off the bench for conduct detrimental to the team. And so that’s convenient of Dre to just say like nah, you know, people on the internet, random people on the internet wanted Haywood Heismith of all people to start over Jimmy Butler. No, that’s kind of only telling one very small part of the story. Yes. Did uh was the plan going to be that Haywood would start over Jimmy? More than likely, right? And I don’t know how many more minutes he would have gotten than Jimmy. Had Jimmy bought in and not been a problem for most of the start of last season, then that wouldn’t have been an issue at all. So, it’s it’s funny how context matters, doesn’t it? Like, while it could be technically true, the context of all of it actually counts. And not to go off on a whole old media versus new media, Draymond Green being like this is players have podcasts, new media thing, it’s like, well, sometimes new media kind of sucks. And this is a good re example of why. Not to say that old media would wouldn’t do something like this and straw man and kind of take things out of context or out of proportion also, but new media was supposed to come along to protect the players. That was the idea behind it. And yet all I see in all these p player hosted podcast, former player hosted podcast are players taking shots at other players. Now you’ve got Draymond Green on social media, taking a shot at Haywood Highmith for no reason, taking a shot at another organization for absolutely no reason. Um, and and so it kind of rubbed me the wrong way, but that’s nothing. It’s like it’s like me saying, “Why’ Jordan Pool have a problem with the Warriors?” I don’t get it. It’s like, you know, wait a minute. Wait a minute. There’s a little bit more to that story than just Jordan not wanting to play for Golden State, right? You guys wanted Jordan Pool off the team. We can’t figure out why. Well, he got punched in the face. All right. By you. By you. Uh, the the part about criticizing the team, that’s an interesting one because I wonder how it’s viewed across the league. Uh I I if Draymond and look this is Draymond being Draymond so you have to take it with a huge grain of salt. At the same time he does it does feel like he he kind of represents a vocal minority around the league in terms of what players think or what they might believe. And Jimmy not exactly the most popular player around the league because mostly he just does his own thing. At the same time I wonder whether or not other people are going damn that Jimmy Butler situation really took a turn. you know, a team that he was almost synonymous with in terms of his work ethic and and how he kind of symbolized what the team represents and of course being a star for that team and then it soured very completely and it Heywood maybe theoretically being a starter over Jimmy. I wonder how players are viewing those kinds of transactions. I I I don’t maybe it’s not that big a transaction like it’s not making waves across the league that Heywood Heismith was traded to the Brooklyn Nets, but in terms of how Miami is viewed around the league, I wonder whether or not there’s some kind of a ripple effect taking place. You’ve brought this up a couple of different times. I think it’s a fair concern to bring up. Absolutely. What sticks out to me about the Haywood thing and what is being lost again without any of the context in the Draymond Green comment here is if if I’m a player, the conversation that I’m interested in right now is not the drama the the the soap opera part of this. It’s oh teams are just trading away good players to get under the luxury tax. Now, whether it’s Boston trading away Drew Holidayiday and Christophorzingis, who accomplished way more in Boston than Haywood Heismith did in Miami, they won a championship. uh or or Miami trading a guy like Haywood Heismith who is a success story for players around the league. Undrafted, worked his way through the G-League and through a training camp deal and a two-way contract and ended up establishing himself as a rotation quality player for one of the more respected franchises and certainly one of the most respected coaches in the league. Heywood Heismith was a success story. And these are players whether it’s Haywood Highmith or Drew Holiday who is universally beloved in NBA circles. Kristoff Sporzingis who is well respected in NBA circles. All these guys are just getting traded because teams got to save money for one reason or the other. That’s the conversation if I’m a player I’m more interested having. What Draymond is doing here is kicking up fodder for his podcast or whatever it is. where really what it sounds like is like Jimmy Butler behind the scenes perhaps maybe saying some stuff about his ex and Draymond Green going on social media being like, “You’re not that hot.” It does sound that way. Draymond, it’s it’s kind of funny that Draymond has taken to Jimmy in a way that he hasn’t taken to many teammates in the past. Like I’m not saying that Draymond’s been problematic or anything. I mean, the most glaring example of one end of the spectrum, clearly Jordan P. And yet, I I think there they kind of um there’s a shared camaraderie and maybe just a this is when you’re out there, we leave it all on the floor kind of thing. And he’s kind of been very public in not just defending Jimmy, but kind of lauding him and and talking about what a great addition he was to the team, etc. So, I I wonder how much Jimmy has said about Miami. And look, look, even he hasn’t said nothing. He hasn’t said nothing. So double negative on purpose. That Yes. So he said a lot is what you’re trying to say. He said something even though publicly he got traded and he was asked about it and he said, “I don’t want to talk about that. That’s in my past.” Whatever. But Jimmy, and I’m not doing any reporting on this, but I these players were human. I cannot believe that he didn’t say nothing. No, he he he can’t keep that kind of stuff under wraps like on the team playing. And that’s the whole thing like you and I could be as plugged in as whatever and it doesn’t really matter because we’re only going to see a small part of this. This is not, you know, the 1970s. This isn’t David Halbertson traveling with the Portland Trailblazers, right? And eating with them and and being there at team practices and traveling on the team. This isn’t Bob Ry Brian Bob Ryan putting out putting back beers with Larry Bird at the bar after the game anymore. Can I can I can I go back to something you said though about Draymond being very pro Jimmy Butler? As people know, I covered the Warriors. I traveled with the team, you know, wasn’t drinking with Draymond Green, like Bob Randle, Larry Bird, but I spent a lot of time around Draymond Green, like more than the average person, let’s put it that way. Um, and I do feel like I got to know him pretty well. And and so even just a as as well as a reporter can know a player these days, right? He is dramatically and proudly pro player and it is a big part of his personality and I have heard him be very publicly critical of other organizations. Yes. And pro player in the past. But this one speaks loudly for two reasons. A, it’s Jimmy Butler and he’s a star player and not everybody that he’s done that with in the past has been a star player. And B, he’s now he’s doing it on social media instead of in front of microphones uh that are being held by reporters and cameramen. So, but I remember a very specific time he go him going off on like a 15minute like a a straight 15minute quote on why the Phoenix Suns did Maris Chris wrong. Maris Chris former teammate too, former warrior, right? He did right. That and that was it. That was the context. So Chris was having a good run there in for a week or so and somebody asked him about it and I’m sitting there in the scrum and and Draymond just went off for 10 15 minutes and it was I thought actually brought up a lot of really great points. I respect a lot of Draymond Green’s thoughts on these things. I don’t respect when he goes onto social media and just says this absent of all the context and what he’s supposed to represent with new media, but he is dramatically pro player and one of the things he always talks about is how context and and the team dynamic matters a lot and we put too much blame on players and not enough blame on organizations sometimes. And I could disagree with a little bit of that, but I understand the overall point in that the players do tend to brunt the individual criticism while the organizations do tend to get off, you know, when a player scott free when a player doesn’t necessarily work out. I I don’t want to belabor this point because it feels like we’ve already talked about this and it’s it’s already so far in the rearview mirror. But I wonder and this is honestly the first time I’ve even considered this. I thought 90% of Jimmy’s argument against Miami in the front office was pay me my money. Had they offered him the money and paid him whatever it was, I think there would not have been a problem. He would still be on the team, etc. Agreed. Having said that, I wonder how much of it is there were there legitimate concerns about the team not nearly improving enough for his taste and him kind of voicing that to now players in the Warriors locker room. Well, you can hear it now when he talks about, “Hey, we got Steph Curry, we have a chance. We’ve got Draymond Green.” He talks about the talent all the time. I do think that that was part of it, but like I said back then, it’s arguing about the toaster after you’ve already decided to end things, right? Like that’s that’s it’s the stuff that comes up afterwards. If they to your point, if they would have just paid him, he would have been happy and just stayed. But, you know, um, all right, so let’s we’re going to move on to the fallout from the Haywood Highmith trade. We discovered a creative way that the He can sign a 14th player or a 15th player, another player before the start of the season. We’ll tell you what it is after this. Stay tuned. Today’s episode is brought to you by FanDuel. August 26 is officially Fan Fool FanDuel Futures Day, a brand new holiday for football fans who live for bold predictions and preseason hunches. for just 24 hours. That’s August 26. FanDuel is giving you deals on NFL season predictions. So whether you’re calling your MVP eyeing a longot division winner or ready to crown your Super Bowl champ before week one even kicks off, this is your moment. Listen, a lot of people picking Lamar Jackson to finally win the MVP. Maybe it’s his year. But let’s say you go crazy. Maybe Wes is right. Maybe it’s Tua’s year. Could he be in the MVP race? Yes, you did. you mentioned it was implied. In any case, if you’re willing to take a chance, FanDuel on August 26, that’s the place to be. So, visit the FanDuel app today and start planning your futures bets now because futures day is one day and one day only. FanDuel, play your game. We’ll be right back. [Music] Thanks again for making Lockdown Heat your first listen every day. Uh, so the Heat are about $1.8 $8 million under the tax, which means they don’t have enough room to sign a 15th player to a contract right now this after trading Haywood Highmith to the Brooklyn Nets. Getting under the tax, using some of that money to resign Drew Smith to a three-year deal. The first year being fully guaranteed, the second and third years partial guarantees. So, by doing that, they do get under the tax. We were asked a lot, okay, well, they signed Drew Smith. Can they sign a 15th player now? because as we talked about yesterday, David, still a glaring need at in the front court behind Bam and behind KL Wear. So, um, we were asked, hey, can they sign another player? The answer right now is no, because they don’t have enough room to even sign a minimum contract with the $1.8 million they have under the tax. They’d have to wait until mid-season to sign, say, a backup center to a pro-rated contract. So, that’s where Miami’s roster stands now. Unless they do this. I found a way where they can save enough money to sign another player and they can do it right now. All they have to do is wave Terry Rosier. If they do that, because remember his contract is partially guaranteed. It’s mostly guaranteed. 24.9 million of Tea Rosier’s $26.6 million is guaranteed. So that’s an additional $1.7 million that they can create. Do the math. 1.8 under the tax right now. You added 1.7 to that, that would give them about $3.5 million in space. That’s enough room under the luxury tax to sign a player to a minimum standard roster contract before the start of the season. They could do that right now. David, should they? Absolutely not. I just as much as Miami should make an addition there. Like, you’re talking about such a minuscule amount of savings compared to the brunt of already having Terry Rosier’s contract in the books. I I think it’s a decision. Uh let me ask you this. Is there a deadline by which they’d have to wave him? Would it have to be prior to the start of the season? Uh, I don’t believe that there’s a point where that contract comes fully guaranteed and unless it’s but let me uh let me check on that while you’re talking. Okay. No, I because my my feeling is look, you’ve got to be able to at least see what Terry can do this season. Maybe the offc court pressures might have been getting to him. Maybe it was a lingering injury issue. We we never know. Look, the players lives are so private and there we only see even us as reporters only see a very small glimpse of it. And uh I just wonder whether or not Terry might have been going through like his ceiling is never going to get particularly high. I think we’re all familiar with who Terry Rosier is, whether he’s playing for the Boston Celtics, the Charlotte Hornets, or now Miami. Expectations for him were never so outsized that he was going to turn into an MVP caliber player or even an All-Star caliber player. You knew he was going to have inconsistencies. He was going to be able to do some things offensively. I just have never seen a drop off as dramatic as of the one I saw last year. And so I wonder what might be those contributing factors because Terry Rosier looked like not an NBA player and that might be putting it as kindly as anybody ever has put it. Um there were just really glaring issues all over the place defensively, offensively, and everything in between. So he’s already on the books. You’re not going to save that much money. To me, I think you have to at the very least give him another chance. And I know it seems for a lot of fans it might be one chance too many, but hell, you’re gonna have to pay him $25 million anyway. It’s on the books. To me, if he is able to somehow have a a bounceback year and wind up being a contributing player, it’s worth the sacrifice. Now, if there’s no deadline and there’s no timeline from which you have to wave them, you could still make this decision in November, you could still make this decision in December and still wind up saving money there. Like maybe your center options might be a little bit more limited at that point. But I still think you take the chance because I think Terry Rosier at his best or maybe even close to what his best is is probably better for this version of the Miami Heat than any center you’re going to be able to pick up at this point unless there’s a significant name that’s cut in between now and the start of the season. And I don’t think that that will be the case. So I any addition I’m sorry I have some names that I want to get to later. All right. I love it. But um to the money point to the guarantee point. So, uh, it becomes fully guaranteed, this part’s interesting, it becomes fully guaranteed if the Heat get to the second round of the playoffs this year, then he gets that extra $1.7 million. What’s interesting about that is in the new CBA that was signed in 2023, this was I this was this would have fallen into the category of unlikely bonuses. And unlikely bonuses is a poorly named thing. it just qualifies as a bonus. But um this would have qualified as an unlikely bonus if we remember what was that summer 2016 17 18 one of those summers where they he resigned like all their guys like James Johnson, Deion, all those guys. Yeah. They were able to get them all under the cap with a series of unlikely bonuses. Yep. and they kind of like broke quote unquote broke the rules and it did kind of take off a lot of other front offices and within the new CBA when that was negotiated and ratified in 2023 it was worked into the new CBA that you can’t do that that the unlikely bonuses that are a part of a contract will count towards the cap whereas before they didn’t right so had Rosier’s contract been signed with the old CBA rules Miami would already have the room necessary to sign one more player, but that’s not the case. It’s under these new rules and uh they don’t have that money because the unlikely bonus, even if Rosier never makes it, even if Miami doesn’t make the second round of the playoffs, it still counts toward Miami’s cap, even if Rosier isn’t making that money in a strange way. So, that’s where it is. I understand where you’re coming from, David, in terms of Terry Rosier’s talent. The upside there is too much to just say we’re gonna walk away from it so that we can go sign some journeyman center who’s currently not on our roster. I understand that perspective and I would say that’s probably how the Heat feel. That’s why they haven’t just waved Ter Rosier already and done this, right? If they felt like the obvious thing to do would be to trade Rosier because they know this. If they thought the obvious thing to do would be to wave Rosier and just sign a center, they would have done that already. But they’re obviously holding out for a reason. Now, there could be a couple of different reasons why that’s the case. Maybe they think that Terry Rosier does have some more upside. Maybe they feel like Rosier can actually reestablish himself as an asset between now and the trade deadline. Or maybe they’re waiting for something else. We’ll talk about that after this. So I again I understand where you’re coming from in terms of you can’t just wave Terry Rosier outright. I would say this though even if he can bounce back and and reclaim some of his value. How much value are we really talking here? Like is there even a role for this guy on the team? You just traded for Norm Pal. You trade you you drafted Yakonis. You ressigned Drew Smith. You brought back Dave Mitchell. Where are the minutes for this guy? Part of me is almost like, yeah, you kind of have to eat the $25 million, and I’d understand why that might not be frothy for the Miami Heat and Mickey to do, but you said it on yesterday’s show. Who cares about Mickey Harrison’s money? This is the exact scenario where fans should be like, I don’t care about Mickey’s money. Pay for Tay Rosier to go away if it means that we could fill a major hole on our roster with whoever it might be, and that player does matter for this purpose. But I I could see both sides of it. Part of me is kind of on the side of ah I don’t know that we should bet on Rosier having a role big enough to reclaim some of that value. And you the one reason I would say you hold on to Rosier is because the salary is so big that you would hope by the trade deadline that could be a chunky salary to go get a superstar player. That’s the reason why I think you hold on to Rosier. Not because he might reclaim his trade value or because he might actually become a part of your rotation that it’s somehow useful. It’s hey, we have $25 million here that we could potentially use as sort of the salary filler in a potential star trade should somebody come available in January or February. Yeah, I don’t I don’t know. I’m trying to think to your first question there where where the minutes would come for Rosier or what his role would be. I’m kind of envisioning it as occasional offensive spark plug. I don’t think he’s going to be a regular part of the rotation. You and I have talked about this before. I think the best approach for Eric Spolster and he’s going to do what he does. Uh so we don’t know for certain whether or not he might approach this season with a different mindset, but typically he’s not one to have a very different rotation. I think he sticks with his eight or nine guys that he feels comfortable with and that’s basically it. Having said that, this team is deep enough, even with the loss of Highmith and now the addition of Drew Smith, that he can go with many different players in many different roles. And I think one of the things that you could do is play Terry every two, three games and you could play him 10 to 15 minutes and see if he’s got it going. Maybe that’s not the right approach. I’m sure it’s probably not one that Rosier wants to hear, but I think it it would work in this idea that he can come off the bench. I think he can. Again, assuming that he has the bounce back that the Heat Front Office is likely hoping he’ll have, then maybe you can play him as that kind of Energizer offensive type player to create some points for you because look, even in his first season with Miami, we did see that saw flashes that, you know, so I I I assume that’s probably something similar to what they would want from him this year as well. coming off the bench 15 minutes maybe go in there see if you can score seven to 10 points in a short relatively short amount of time. I don’t know uh if they were to kind of put him in that role is that enough to keep his value at least high enough so the team would be like yeah we can take on Terry for the rest of the season or is he’s he’s just going to be viewed as an expiring contract. That’s it. I think he’s going to be viewed as a salary point blank. That’s it. There’s I I don’t see a road where a team actually calls Miami and says, “We could really use Terry Rosier. Would you trade him to us?” It would be a contender that would want that kind of energizing spark plug off at $25 million a year. That’s the thing, though. And so that would cost him something. And see, that’s why and that’s why I just don’t see it happening. There’s too many reasons. The reason why you don’t just wave Terry Rosier to sign a backup center right now is because by February, if Giannis comes free, you’re going to need that salary. So, let’s say you want to trade for Giannis, the idea would be to pair Giannis with Bam and Tyler Herro or whatever. Right. Right. Well, if you don’t have Tero Zero in the books, then you have to trade Andrew Wiggins and Norm Pal or Andrew Wiggins and Tyler Hero or Andrew. It gets a lot and and I don’t know, maybe there’s a team that doesn’t want that. Maybe it just you could trade Norm Pal and Ter Rosier and offer a team two expiring contracts and a ton of cap space over the summer or Andrew Wiggins and and Ter Rosier. I think the reason why you do it is because you need Rosier’s expiring contract. Now maybe you don’t. Maybe you never signed Norm Pal to an extension and maybe he’s an expiring contract that you could pair with Andrew Wiggins. But I do what one thing we don’t know about Miami is they want options and Rosier would be a very palatable option for a team that is forced to trade a superstar player away considering that Rosier’s salary just comes off the books and you don’t have to worry about that if you’re a rebuilding team. Um but let’s just say for the sake of argument that Miami says you know what we have to have a backup center. We don’t really care about that option for Terara Rosier. We’d rather get him off the books move forward. we see other ways that we can go get that star player if that’s something that we have to go and do. Who are the names that they can go out and sign if they were to wave to Rosier and create $3.5 million of space under the luxury tax? Unless you have anything else on the Ter Rosier front because this is a quick list of names. It almost feels moot because we don’t know what we’re going to get from Terry. Um Kai Jones is the obvious one. Worked out for the Heat. They didn’t sign him. They signed Drew Smith instead. That’s what their decision was. He’s still available. Trey Lyles has also been linked to Miami. Precious Achua has been linked to a possible Heat return. Thomas Bryant is out there. They’ve brought him back before. They could bring him back again. Um Charles Bassie, who I just I can’t quit. My Charles Bassie love for some reason. He’s out there still. Hasn’t signed after playing for the Celtic summer league team. And then the other option is in terms of hey, why haven’t they done anything yet? Could they be waiting for buyouts? Could they be waiting for players waved um before the start of the season when when teams have to trim their rosters down? Could Charlotte walk away from Grant Williams? Could Chicago buy out Nicola Vousvich? Could Washington wave Marvin Baggley? And do they view those options as maybe more preferable to some of the names who are already unrestricted free agents? Uh, or could they wave Terros here, create $3.5 million of cap space, and then do what Brooklyn just did with Haywood and absorb a player into space, helping out another team either save money or get under the 15 player limit and and just absorb that player into space and potentially even add some assets. I think all of these are potential options, but um any of those names or options jump out to you? I think the one that seems most aligned with Miami’s typical course of action is the the last option, which is the the waiting game to determine which player comes up because I I think um if they were able to somehow create the space for it, I think they would want to see the market and determine and I we they’ve done this before because they could wave other players on this roster. They they’d find some other creative way, not necessarily one involving Rosier to create said cap space. And I think that being the case, if there’s a name out there that they think would significantly improve the roster, having said that, it’s also a move that they typically make when they view their roster as competitive or likely to contend or potentially even contend. And so I don’t know how they view this current team. Do, and we brought this up in talking about Haywood Heismith, do they view Drew Smith as almost at the same level as Haywood Heismith, just another guy that can provide whatever it was that they saw Haywood provide? I don’t know. I think Haywood is clearly a better player than Drew Smith is, but maybe they expect Drew Smith to return back to the form that he showed last year where he was he was playing great. He was looking like a really good solid rotation player around the league. And if that’s the case, then maybe they do think, you know what, waving or trading away Haywood isn’t detrimental to how far we think we can go. You know, outwardly they’re always going to say that this team is going to be a playoffs contender. They want to make some noise. The East is wide open, etc., etc. But it’s not how they’ve operated. They haven’t made the kind of moves that feel like we really believe in our team and we’re going to do everything possible to shore up our chances of contention. I don’t know. I think if a Vuvich comes about, I would think Miami would really look into that. I I just think that there’s enough mutual respect for a guy like Vu where they would absolutely think, you know what, he could add something to our roster as a as a veteran, as a guy who’s been around and knows how to continue to work hard and improve his game and and and contribute something because he is a shooter from the perimeter. He can rebound well even at this stage in his career. So I I think they would probably want to have somebody like that even over say a Rosier or a Fonteo or whomever else is on this roster. There’s no urgency to do this wave T Rosier thing now, right? If they thought Kai Jones looked like a future starting caliber center every night rotation, then they probably would have signed him instead of Drew Smith, right? Like they um so there’s no rush to do anything now. they’ll probably wait and and there’s a lot of reasons to not wave Terry Rosier even though I think a lot of Heat fans would love the idea of just get get him off the roster, sign a backup center and let’s get this thing rolling with a roster that makes a lot of sense because right now it is pretty heavy in certain spots at the guard spot and then there’s clearly not enough enough depth in the front court. I I count three playable rotation guys in the front court total, you know, between wear, bam, and yo, and that’s it. and and there’s a debate whether or not you how much front court minutes YoIC should actually be playing. So, right, um I understand the concerns over the roster, but again, Miami, if they thought that they needed to do it now, they probably would. Not saying they’re right or wrong, but I I I don’t see any of these names that I just talked about in terms of uh uh being compelling enough to go ahead and make that move, swallow the $25 million, and punt on the chance to potentially trade Terry Rosier. I don’t look at any of these guys and say, “Yeah, punt on all of that to make sure that you get Trey Lyles on the roster.” You know what I mean? So, um maybe it is just round to Thomas Bryant. You know, you gota gota go through that experiment again. See what he can provide us. Thanks for making Lockdown Heat your first listen today. 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Wes Goldberg and David Ramil discuss why Draymond Green’s criticism of the Miami Heat for the Haywood Highsmith trade falls short before digging into a creative way that the Heat could add a center to the roster without going over the luxury tax. Finally, they put together some options that the Heat can sign in free agency.

0:00 Intro
1:30 Draymond Green on Highsmith trade
13:30 How the Heat can create cap space
21:30 Options at center

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