{"id":223185,"date":"2025-10-18T17:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T17:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/223185\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T17:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T17:11:08","slug":"heat-waive-precious-achiuwa-three-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/223185\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat Waive Precious Achiuwa, Three Others"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oct. 18: Miami has indeed added Young on a two-way contract, per Michael Scotto of Hoops Hype (Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Oct. 17: The Heat have waived big man Precious Achiuwa<\/a> ahead of the regular season, per Anthony Chiang of The Miami Herald (Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"\"Miami has also released Ethan Thompson<\/a>, Dain Dainja<\/a>, and Bez Mbeng<\/a>, Chiang adds.<\/p>\n

All four players were signed to non-guaranteed contracts for training camp, so the Heat won\u2019t carry any money on their books by cutting them loose.<\/p>\n

A 6\u20198\u2033 forward\/center, Achiuwa has spent the past five years in the NBA after being selected 20th overall by Miami in the 2020 draft. The 26-year-old has appeared in 320 regular season games with the Heat, Raptors and Knicks over that span, with career averages of 7.6 points and 5.7 rebounds in 20.0 minutes per contest.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear where Achiuwa will land next after he was unable to find a new team for most of the offseason \u2014 he didn\u2019t sign with the Heat until late September<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thompson, Dainja and Mbeng were on Exhibit 10 deals with Miami are now eligible for bonuses worth up to $85,300 as long as they spend at least 60 days with the team\u2019s G League affiliate, the Sioux Falls Skyforce.<\/p>\n

By process of elimination, it appears that guard Jahmir Young<\/a> will fill the Heat\u2019s third and final two-way spot, as Ira Winderman of The South Florida Sun Sentinel tweets<\/a>. The Heat can simply convert Young\u2019s Exhibit 10 deal to a two-way pact and intend to do so, per Michael Scotto of HoopsHype (Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

A 6\u20191\u2033 point guard who went undrafted out of Maryland in 2024, Young opened his first professional season with the Grand Rapids Gold, before signing a two-way deal with Chicago in February and finishing the year with the Bulls.<\/p>\n

Although he logged just 30 total minutes in six games at the NBA level, but starred in the NBAGL, averaging 21.7 points, 7.0 assists, 4.5 rebounds, and 1.9 steals per game in 43 total outings for the Nuggets\u2019 and Bulls\u2019 affiliates. The 24-year-old was named<\/a> to the G League\u2019s All-Rookie team and finished third<\/a> in Rookie of the Year voting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct. 18: Miami has indeed added Young on a two-way contract, per Michael Scotto of Hoops Hype (Twitter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,135522,135523,135524,80900,16094,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-223185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-bez-mbeng","12":"tag-dain-dainja","13":"tag-ethan-thompson","14":"tag-jahmir-young","15":"tag-precious-achiuwa","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}