Heat, Suns Explored Trade Talks For Bradley Beal; Heat, Bucks Would Be Interested If Beal Bought Out

[RealGM Wiretap]

The Miami Heat and Phoenix Suns explored a possible trade for Bradley Beal this week, sources told Jake Fischer of The People's Insider.

The discussions ultimately came to an end without any traction.

It is now expected that the Suns buy Beal out of his contract at around the $90 million range. Stretched over five years, the buyout would create a $18 million annual cap hit. 

Beal has two years remaining on his contract totaling $110 million.

Should Beal get bought out, the Heat and the Bucks would have interested in acquiring the guard.

Beal hasn't played at least 60 games since the 2020-21 season. 

Via Jake Fischer/The People's Insider

[AwesomeLife]

In today's NBA and his skillset and availability thats a 5-10mil player at best.
Beal doesn't care about basketball. When players decline so fast and become injury prone so early its 90% cuz they are not taking care of themselves. Beal's game and availability fell off a cliff when he signed that max, but the biggest morons are the PHX taking that player with that contract... even if you get him for free to try to contend thats the worst deal in history... even worse than when Westbrook was on 50mil on the Lakers, cuz at least dumping him was an option instead of losing their superstar, because of him and having to restart a franchise that was on the right path to contend for championships right before they signed him... and if they buy him out they will have 20mil dead cap space for the next 5 years... this is like having a player like Austin Reaves/ Chet Holmgren / Podziemski / Miles Turner / Naz Reed and etc etc for the next 5 years, instead you have a 20mil dead cap space....

[Vegeta10176]

In today's NBA and his skillset and availability thats a 5-10mil player at best.
Beal doesn't care about basketball. When players decline so fast and become injury prone so early its 90% cuz they are not taking care of themselves. Beal's game and availability fell off a cliff when he signed that max, but the biggest morons are the PHX taking that player with that contract... even if you get him for free to try to contend thats the worst deal in history... even worse than when Westbrook was on 50mil on the Lakers, cuz at least dumping him was an option instead of losing their superstar, because of him and having to restart a franchise that was on the right path to contend for championships right before they signed him... and if they buy him out they will have 20mil dead cap space for the next 5 years... this is like having a player like Austin Reaves/ Chet Holmgren / Podziemski / Miles Turner / Naz Reed and etc etc for the next 5 years, instead you have a 20mil dead cap space....

You do know the cost to dump Westbrook was a top 4 protected pick in 2027 that is still to be paid.. Westbrick was horrendous infact be is worse than Beal.. Beal is a much better player but was on a team with heaps of players that do the same thing.. Beal can defend and is an excellent shooter who ever gets him be will be massively additive to their team say its a contender.. As for the suns being on the right trajectory to compete no they weren't the beal trade was horrendous and the reason why it was worse than westbrick is simply the no trade clause which didn't allow them to dump him somewhere he didn't want to be say Utah.. The suns however were screwed even prior to the beal trade that just made it worse they traded all their depth and most of thier picks for KD.. Brooklyn basically turned KD into 9 first rd picks.. KD and Booker are to similar of players then throw in Beal who is also the same you don't have elite wings or an elite centre or point gaurd it's a terrible roster that and ayton wasn't good either..

[Pickled Prunes]

In today's NBA and his skillset and availability thats a 5-10mil player at best.
Beal doesn't care about basketball. When players decline so fast and become injury prone so early its 90% cuz they are not taking care of themselves. Beal's game and availability fell off a cliff when he signed that max, but the biggest morons are the PHX taking that player with that contract... even if you get him for free to try to contend thats the worst deal in history... even worse than when Westbrook was on 50mil on the Lakers, cuz at least dumping him was an option instead of losing their superstar, because of him and having to restart a franchise that was on the right path to contend for championships right before they signed him... and if they buy him out they will have 20mil dead cap space for the next 5 years... this is like having a player like Austin Reaves/ Chet Holmgren / Podziemski / Miles Turner / Naz Reed and etc etc for the next 5 years, instead you have a 20mil dead cap space....

You do know the cost to dump Westbrook was a top 4 protected pick in 2027 that is still to be paid.. Westbrick was horrendous infact be is worse than Beal.. Beal is a much better player but was on a team with heaps of players that do the same thing.. Beal can defend and is an excellent shooter who ever gets him be will be massively additive to their team say its a contender.. As for the suns being on the right trajectory to compete no they weren't the beal trade was horrendous and the reason why it was worse than westbrick is simply the no trade clause which didn't allow them to dump him somewhere he didn't want to be say Utah.. The suns however were screwed even prior to the beal trade that just made it worse they traded all their depth and most of thier picks for KD.. Brooklyn basically turned KD into 9 first rd picks.. KD and Booker are to similar of players then throw in Beal who is also the same you don't have elite wings or an elite centre or point gaurd it's a terrible roster that and ayton wasn't good either..

People can't see the forest for the trees once money is involved. Once a player's contract outpaces their on-court performance they get labeled a bum and people lose all perspective. The media and fans alike are talking about how they doubt if Beal would get picked up at $5mil per season. What are people smoking? Duncan Robinson just got 3/$48m. Shroeder just got 3/$45m. Tre Mann got 3/$24m. Does anyone believe Robinson, Shroeder or Mann are better than Beal? If so, they need to re-calibrate!

There are 115 players that took at least 5 3PA's last season... only seven of them had a better overall FG% than Beal:
LaVine, MPJ, SGA, Lebron, Mikal Bridges, Kawhi and KD

[ReddOktober]

In today's NBA and his skillset and availability thats a 5-10mil player at best.
Beal doesn't care about basketball. When players decline so fast and become injury prone so early its 90% cuz they are not taking care of themselves. Beal's game and availability fell off a cliff when he signed that max, but the biggest morons are the PHX taking that player with that contract... even if you get him for free to try to contend thats the worst deal in history... even worse than when Westbrook was on 50mil on the Lakers, cuz at least dumping him was an option instead of losing their superstar, because of him and having to restart a franchise that was on the right path to contend for championships right before they signed him... and if they buy him out they will have 20mil dead cap space for the next 5 years... this is like having a player like Austin Reaves/ Chet Holmgren / Podziemski / Miles Turner / Naz Reed and etc etc for the next 5 years, instead you have a 20mil dead cap space....

You do know the cost to dump Westbrook was a top 4 protected pick in 2027 that is still to be paid.. Westbrick was horrendous infact be is worse than Beal.. Beal is a much better player but was on a team with heaps of players that do the same thing.. Beal can defend and is an excellent shooter who ever gets him be will be massively additive to their team say its a contender.. As for the suns being on the right trajectory to compete no they weren't the beal trade was horrendous and the reason why it was worse than westbrick is simply the no trade clause which didn't allow them to dump him somewhere he didn't want to be say Utah.. The suns however were screwed even prior to the beal trade that just made it worse they traded all their depth and most of thier picks for KD.. Brooklyn basically turned KD into 9 first rd picks.. KD and Booker are to similar of players then throw in Beal who is also the same you don't have elite wings or an elite centre or point gaurd it's a terrible roster that and ayton wasn't good either..

People can't see the forest for the trees once money is involved. Once a player's contract outpaces their on-court performance they get labeled a bum and people lose all perspective. The media and fans alike are talking about how they doubt if Beal would get picked up at $5mil per season. What are people smoking? Duncan Robinson just got 3/$48m. Shroeder just got 3/$45m. Tre Mann got 3/$24m. Does anyone believe Robinson, Shroeder or Mann are better than Beal? If so, they need to re-calibrate!

There are 115 players that took at least 5 3PA's last season... only seven of them had a better overall FG% than Beal:
LaVine, MPJ, SGA, Lebron, Mikal Bridges, Kawhi and KD

People on this board dont know ball bro. you're completely right. Beal not being able to secure 5-10 mil a year is laughable. He wasn't bad on the Suns he just didnt fit like you said... too many of the same type of player. Bucks would be ecstatic to have him.

[D21]

You do know the cost to dump Westbrook was a top 4 protected pick in 2027 that is still to be paid.. Westbrick was horrendous infact be is worse than Beal.. Beal is a much better player but was on a team with heaps of players that do the same thing.. Beal can defend and is an excellent shooter who ever gets him be will be massively additive to their team say its a contender.. As for the suns being on the right trajectory to compete no they weren't the beal trade was horrendous and the reason why it was worse than westbrick is simply the no trade clause which didn't allow them to dump him somewhere he didn't want to be say Utah.. The suns however were screwed even prior to the beal trade that just made it worse they traded all their depth and most of thier picks for KD.. Brooklyn basically turned KD into 9 first rd picks.. KD and Booker are to similar of players then throw in Beal who is also the same you don't have elite wings or an elite centre or point gaurd it's a terrible roster that and ayton wasn't good either..

People can't see the forest for the trees once money is involved. Once a player's contract outpaces their on-court performance they get labeled a bum and people lose all perspective. The media and fans alike are talking about how they doubt if Beal would get picked up at $5mil per season. What are people smoking? Duncan Robinson just got 3/$48m. Shroeder just got 3/$45m. Tre Mann got 3/$24m. Does anyone believe Robinson, Shroeder or Mann are better than Beal? If so, they need to re-calibrate!

There are 115 players that took at least 5 3PA's last season... only seven of them had a better overall FG% than Beal:
LaVine, MPJ, SGA, Lebron, Mikal Bridges, Kawhi and KD

People on this board dont know ball bro. you're completely right. Beal not being able to secure 5-10 mil a year is laughable. He wasn't bad on the Suns he just didnt fit like you said... too many of the same type of player. Bucks would be ecstatic to have him.

Maybe the ones you think that they don't know anything are wrong, or maybe you are wrong, or maybe... You're all wrong and right because the truth is in the middle

Schroeder and Robinson got paid around twice what Mann.
Schroeder had a Net rating difference of +11 with BKN.
Robinson was average.
Mann was - 10 with LAC, - 4 with ATL.
Beal? -8.5 with PHX, worse of his team

Yes, the Suns were at their worst this season when Beal was on the floor.

So if your are saying that it's because they were too many with the same profile, why the other had more impact than him?

Being dead last like that in team stats is alarming. Maybe he was not motivated anymore with this project, and that a new team will make him play with more impact, but it's not sure at all.

We will see in some months

[Pickled Prunes]

People can't see the forest for the trees once money is involved. Once a player's contract outpaces their on-court performance they get labeled a bum and people lose all perspective. The media and fans alike are talking about how they doubt if Beal would get picked up at $5mil per season. What are people smoking? Duncan Robinson just got 3/$48m. Shroeder just got 3/$45m. Tre Mann got 3/$24m. Does anyone believe Robinson, Shroeder or Mann are better than Beal? If so, they need to re-calibrate!

There are 115 players that took at least 5 3PA's last season... only seven of them had a better overall FG% than Beal:
LaVine, MPJ, SGA, Lebron, Mikal Bridges, Kawhi and KD

People on this board dont know ball bro. you're completely right. Beal not being able to secure 5-10 mil a year is laughable. He wasn't bad on the Suns he just didnt fit like you said... too many of the same type of player. Bucks would be ecstatic to have him.

Maybe the ones you think that they don't know anything are wrong, or maybe you are wrong, or maybe... You're all wrong and right because the truth is in the middle

Schroeder and Robinson got paid around twice what Mann.
Schroeder had a Net rating difference of +11 with BKN.
Robinson was average.
Mann was - 10 with LAC, - 4 with ATL.
Beal? -8.5 with PHX, worse of his team

Yes, the Suns were at their worst this season when Beal was on the floor.

So if your are saying that it's because they were too many with the same profile, why the other had more impact than him?

Being dead last like that in team stats is alarming. Maybe he was not motivated anymore with this project, and that a new team will make him play with more impact, but it's not sure at all.

We will see in some months

Beal is what he is, and what he was for the past two seasons was an afterthought in the Suns offense. It was Booker and KD playing "your turn, my turn" and Beal getting most of his touches while on the floor with the bench players. The Suns were bad when Nurk played; they were bad when Nurk didn't play; they were bad when Beal started, they were bad when Beal sat; they were bad on a plane; they were bad on a train; I did not like them Sam I Am...

It wasn't one players fault. The roster construction was tragic. Beal made shots more efficiently than at any other time in his career, and that's what they brought him in to do. You think there might be a team with a solid roster that might like to add a shooter like Beal?

[D21]

People on this board dont know ball bro. you're completely right. Beal not being able to secure 5-10 mil a year is laughable. He wasn't bad on the Suns he just didnt fit like you said... too many of the same type of player. Bucks would be ecstatic to have him.

Maybe the ones you think that they don't know anything are wrong, or maybe you are wrong, or maybe... You're all wrong and right because the truth is in the middle

Schroeder and Robinson got paid around twice what Mann.
Schroeder had a Net rating difference of +11 with BKN.
Robinson was average.
Mann was - 10 with LAC, - 4 with ATL.
Beal? -8.5 with PHX, worse of his team

Yes, the Suns were at their worst this season when Beal was on the floor.

So if your are saying that it's because they were too many with the same profile, why the other had more impact than him?

Being dead last like that in team stats is alarming. Maybe he was not motivated anymore with this project, and that a new team will make him play with more impact, but it's not sure at all.

We will see in some months

Beal is what he is, and what he was for the past two seasons was an afterthought in the Suns offense. It was Booker and KD playing "your turn, my turn" and Beal getting most of his touches while on the floor with the bench players. The Suns were bad when Nurk played; they were bad when Nurk didn't play; they were bad when Beal started, they were bad when Beal sat; they were bad on a plane; they were bad on a train; I did not like them Sam I Am...

It wasn't one players fault. The roster construction was tragic. Beal made shots more efficiently than at any other time in his career, and that's what they brought him in to do. You think there might be a team with a solid roster that might like to add a shooter like Beal?

It was actually worse this last season, they
They were not so much bad with Beal in 2023-24.
The thing that was incredible is that the system got worse, but almost all PHX fans I've seen were saying the only problem was Nurk, without even thinking about why Nurkic had the best Net rating difference in 2023-24, but was suddenly the worst when 2024-25 started.

Instead of first blaming management for bad trades, coaching staff for bad choices or for letting KD and Booker do their show, it was all on Nurkic, the player they needed the most the previous season to be at their best.
Beal looked less problematic, while costing 3 times Nurkic's salary...

[Pickled Prunes]

Maybe the ones you think that they don't know anything are wrong, or maybe you are wrong, or maybe... You're all wrong and right because the truth is in the middle

Schroeder and Robinson got paid around twice what Mann.
Schroeder had a Net rating difference of +11 with BKN.
Robinson was average.
Mann was - 10 with LAC, - 4 with ATL.
Beal? -8.5 with PHX, worse of his team

Yes, the Suns were at their worst this season when Beal was on the floor.

So if your are saying that it's because they were too many with the same profile, why the other had more impact than him?

Being dead last like that in team stats is alarming. Maybe he was not motivated anymore with this project, and that a new team will make him play with more impact, but it's not sure at all.

We will see in some months

Beal is what he is, and what he was for the past two seasons was an afterthought in the Suns offense. It was Booker and KD playing "your turn, my turn" and Beal getting most of his touches while on the floor with the bench players. The Suns were bad when Nurk played; they were bad when Nurk didn't play; they were bad when Beal started, they were bad when Beal sat; they were bad on a plane; they were bad on a train; I did not like them Sam I Am...

It wasn't one players fault. The roster construction was tragic. Beal made shots more efficiently than at any other time in his career, and that's what they brought him in to do. You think there might be a team with a solid roster that might like to add a shooter like Beal?

It was actually worse this last season, they
They were not so much bad with Beal in 2023-24.
The thing that was incredible is that the system got worse, but almost all PHX fans I've seen were saying the only problem was Nurk, without even thinking about why Nurkic had the best Net rating difference in 2023-24, but was suddenly the worst when 2024-25 started.

Instead of first blaming management for bad trades, coaching staff for bad choices or for letting KD and Booker do their show, it was all on Nurkic, the player they needed the most the previous season to be at their best.
Beal looked less problematic, while costing 3 times Nurkic's salary...

It was the Island of Misfit Toys down in PHX. There wasn't a single player to blame... but if I were to blame a player it would be KD. Where was his leadership? His demand for excellence? I am interested to see if HOU gets dramatically better with his addition.