2025-26 Miami Heat Regular Season Thread 3.0

[Crazy-Canuck]

They should trade fontecchio for looney at the deadline. He's a C that could pair well with bam like a big pj Tucker. Smart defender, great screener, and great at boxing out. A big upgrade over jovic.

Small deal, but possibly big impact.

[Flash4thewin]

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Giannis is going to get paid regardless, just less if he traded in the off season. But money, be damn, I'm not sure he wants to deal with this for 2 more seasons.

He wants to win, he’s not going to extend with Milwaukee and waste yet another season of his prime there next year.

Money talks. Also it was never about the winning, if it was he would be asking about the Spurs or OKC, no its about living his best life and becoming a true super star in a market that will make that happen. Thats why NY and LA keep on popping up. Giannis in NY would be marketed like the second coming lol, if he and Brunson can will they will go down as legends. If he teams up with Luka they have a potential dynasty in the making, the marketing and the narrative write themselves. We cant offer that unfortunately.

[contract]

if the lakers want to do an early divorce from lebron.. im offering herro and anyone not named bam, ware kasp or larrson.. take your pick..

Bron is 41 years old, and he's not putting us over the top. Certainly not if we trade anything of value for him. I can do without the retirement tour, and I sure as hell can do without the circus.

The only way you make that trade is if your team is having trouble filling seats.

I didnt name a single player of value. Im trying to get rid of trash. And hes better than all that tradh combined even at 41.

He can have anyone not named bam, ware, larrson, kasp.. and let me add powell.. the rest of the team, can go for him

Herro trash is still better value if we don't extend him. At the very least, Herro isn't creating drama, bringing his kid to work, or having his agent undermine the front office and his teammates.

[3ammy3uck3ts]

Rumblings that the number 1 seed Pistons franchise player has a wrist injury so bad that he really needs to shut it down and get surgery but he’s playing through it because he would have to miss the season if he did. I’ve been watching some Pistons games lately and he’s looked horrible so that would make sense. The East is so watered down this year, we need to make a swing

The whole league. Its only one dominate team

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And they’re beatable. Nuggets are legit too with Watson and even Murray seemingly taking a step this year. If they’re healthy they can beat the Thunder in a playoff setting

[3ammy3uck3ts]

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Giannis is going to get paid regardless, just less if he traded in the off season. But money, be damn, I'm not sure he wants to deal with this for 2 more seasons.

He wants to win, he’s not going to extend with Milwaukee and waste yet another season of his prime there next year.

Money talks. Also it was never about the winning, if it was he would be asking about the Spurs or OKC, no its about living his best life and becoming a true super star in a market that will make that happen. Thats why NY and LA keep on popping up. Giannis in NY would be marketed like the second coming lol, if he and Brunson can will they will go down as legends. If he teams up with Luka they have a potential dynasty in the making, the marketing and the narrative write themselves. We cant offer that unfortunately.

He’s not extending with Milwaukee, I’d bet a large amount of money on that if I could

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[MettaWorldPanda]

He wants to win, he’s not going to extend with Milwaukee and waste yet another season of his prime there next year.

Money talks. Also it was never about the winning, if it was he would be asking about the Spurs or OKC, no its about living his best life and becoming a true super star in a market that will make that happen. Thats why NY and LA keep on popping up. Giannis in NY would be marketed like the second coming lol, if he and Brunson can will they will go down as legends. If he teams up with Luka they have a potential dynasty in the making, the marketing and the narrative write themselves. We cant offer that unfortunately.

He’s not extending with Milwaukee, I’d bet a large amount of money on that if I could

The history of the new CBA favors him resigning with Bucks but he could still be traded in offseason. I just don’t see a trade any longer at the deadline. Bucks ain’t doing us any favors and our assets are not needle movers enough for them not to wait. If Luka can get screwed out of his supermax so can Giannis but I think in the end the Bucks try to regroup in offseason and offer Giannis the supermax. If he turns it down they trade him and stir up a max bidding war.

[al bondiga]

They should trade fontecchio for looney at the deadline. He's a C that could pair well with bam like a big pj Tucker. Smart defender, great screener, and great at boxing out. A big upgrade over jovic.

Small deal, but possibly big impact.

[youtube][/youtube]looney is a good young player fontecchio is misht not be enough??

[MettaWorldPanda]

Trade Wiggins for Kuminga, Horford, and 1st. Give Kuminga a trial run for ROS. Don’t work out we have that future 1st. Win win for both sides.

[Crazy-Canuck]

Money talks. Also it was never about the winning, if it was he would be asking about the Spurs or OKC, no its about living his best life and becoming a true super star in a market that will make that happen. Thats why NY and LA keep on popping up. Giannis in NY would be marketed like the second coming lol, if he and Brunson can will they will go down as legends. If he teams up with Luka they have a potential dynasty in the making, the marketing and the narrative write themselves. We cant offer that unfortunately.

He’s not extending with Milwaukee, I’d bet a large amount of money on that if I could

The history of the new CBA favors him resigning with Bucks but he could still be traded in offseason. I just don’t see a trade any longer at the deadline. Bucks ain’t doing us any favors and our assets are not needle movers enough for them not to wait. If Luka can get screwed out of his supermax so can Giannis but I think in the end the Bucks try to regroup in offseason and offer Giannis the supermax. If he turns it down they trade him and stir up a max bidding war.

Luka situation doesnt apply. Giannis qualifies for the 10 year vet max (both 35% of cap). The only restriction is 6 months on a team before October 1. If he gets traded in the offseason, he kinda gets screwed.

[MettaWorldPanda]

He’s not extending with Milwaukee, I’d bet a large amount of money on that if I could

The history of the new CBA favors him resigning with Bucks but he could still be traded in offseason. I just don’t see a trade any longer at the deadline. Bucks ain’t doing us any favors and our assets are not needle movers enough for them not to wait. If Luka can get screwed out of his supermax so can Giannis but I think in the end the Bucks try to regroup in offseason and offer Giannis the supermax. If he turns it down they trade him and stir up a max bidding war.

Luka situation doesnt apply. Giannis qualifies for the 10 year vet max (both 35% of cap). The only restriction is 6 months on a team before October 1. If he gets traded in the offseason, he kinda gets screwed.

Yeah he does but the Bucks are not going to treat it like it’s a gun to there head forcing a deadline trade especially with Giannis now forecasted to be out for well past the trade deadline.

[greg4012]

Also now that I'm home and can format more easily, I'm not sure the point on Bam making it in the playoffs farther as a top 2 impact player than Zo did is really all that relevant.

majority of the text I'm reading isn't all that relevant. But here we are.

I'll circle it back around then. Bam to me isn't an anchor but his superpower and value comes from his portability. Not sure if you read the PC board a lot but ElGee (prominent poster there who started the thinking basketball website and does youtube videos now) championed it a lot back then, think Doctor MJ had a lot of great posts on the subject as well.

An anchor (defensive or offensive) to me is a guy you drop on a team and they all get better and you build around him. They give you 50 wins as a floor. I don't think Bam's quite at that level. But he's like a 9 or a 10 on the portability scale, he can fit on almost any squad in the NBA. There's a ton of value in that.

Weird anchor definition to me. It suggests there are no more than 10 players in the NBA that can be considered an anchor--and that's assuming that all the 50+ win teams are driven by one star player rather than a collection. And it infers that these "anchors" should always or almost always have 50+ win seasons. If you control for all those parameters, I'd bet that the number of players that fit that definition in the NBA is 5 or less. So, I'm 1000% with you in contending that Bam is not a top 5 player in the NBA. I don't think anyone ever posited otherwise.

And it's pretty distinct from a discussion of a "defensive anchor" imo. It basically suggests that a "defensive anchor" as a concept doesn't exist. Then we just get into weird semantics.

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[Enso]

Now sprinkle in some injuries to add to the trade deadline drama

[3ammy3uck3ts]

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[3ammy3uck3ts]

Watchout doesn’t have anything for us?!

[Crazy-Canuck]

Im wondering if the interest in kuminga is to flip him to Milwaukee because they have no interest in herro. And podz, who is also a Milwaukee kid.

Kuminga, rozier, ware, pelle, podz, and 2 picks + 3 swaps should work.

Davion/dru
Herro/kj
Powell/jaime
Giannis/jovic
Bam/jovic

[MartyCONLONNN]

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What does this translate to exactly?

[vagelis]

Kuminga+ Podziemski for Wiggins??

Then send them to Bucks?

[SoFlaKingReal]

Giannis and Ja are constantly injured, it’s a bad joke to think they are saving this mediocre team. Tear it down and start over, this isn’t complicated.