{"id":241142,"date":"2025-10-26T03:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T03:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/241142\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T03:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T03:01:09","slug":"terry-roziers-miami-heat-teammates-spill-on-weird-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/241142\/","title":{"rendered":"Terry Rozier’s Miami Heat teammates spill on ‘weird’ fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"

The reality began setting in for the Miami Heat<\/a> on Saturday morning (AEDT) when they gathered for a shootaround practice and Terry Rozier wasn’t with the team.<\/p>\n

And that almost certainly won’t change anytime soon.<\/p>\n

Rozier has been placed on indefinite leave by the NBA<\/a> after he was arrested this week by federal agents and charged for his alleged role in a scheme<\/a> in which prosecutors say he conspired with friends to help them win bets they made based on his performance in a March 2023 game when he was with the Charlotte Hornets.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou support him through and through,” Heat captain Bam Adebayo said in Memphis, Tennessee, before Miami’s game against the Grizzlies.<\/p>\n

“That’s our brother at the end of the day. It felt kind of weird without him being here, actually, because he\u2019s the first person I get to talk to in the morning. He brings that great energy to our team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adebayo made clear how the players still felt about Rozier.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe stand behind him,” Adebayo said. \u201cFull support.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Terry<\/p>\n

Terry Rozier of the Miami Heat.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

The Heat now have to move on, much like how the Portland Trail Blazers must do without coach Chauncey Billups \u2014 also arrested this week and placed on leave for his alleged involvement in another gambling scheme, this one a poker cheating ring backed by the mafia.<\/p>\n

The prop-bet allegations surrounding Rozier first came to light in late January. He didn’t seem bothered in the games that immediately followed, scoring at least 19 points in three of the next four contests.<\/p>\n

But since then, his numbers have plummeted well off his career pace. Over Miami’s last 39 games going into Saturday (AEDT), including the 2025 post-season, Rozier has made only 18 appearances and averaged 5.9 points on 31 per cent shooting. His career norms before that: 13.8 points on 42 per cent shooting.<\/p>\n

\u201cTerry is somebody who is very dear to all of us,\u201d Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said.<\/p>\n

“He\u2019s had a real positive impact on our locker room, and the staff and players alike, and that includes last year, when he wasn\u2019t in the rotation often times. We send our thoughts and our care for him as he goes through this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rozier, through his attorney, has denied any wrongdoing. The Heat aren’t commenting on the legal part of the case, nor are the Hornets, the team that Rozier was with during the March 2023 game in question.<\/p>\n

Rozier was in the starting line-up for Charlotte and played reasonably well in his nine-and-a-half minutes of action, with five points, four rebounds, two assists and a steal. That remains one of only two times in his career that he’s had that many points, rebounds and assists in a first quarter.<\/p>\n

Rozier cited foot pain as his reason for not returning to that game, and he sat out the final eight Charlotte games that season. The Hornets had already been eliminated from playoff contention and it\u2019s not uncommon for players, even those with minor injuries, to be held out of inconsequential games toward the end of a season.<\/p>\n

Heat players met on Friday (AEDT), hours after Rozier was arrested by federal authorities in Orlando, Florida, and spent part of that session discussing how to support their teammate.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s our brother,\u201d forward Jaime Jaquez Jr said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had a lot of time with him. You know, see what happens. There\u2019s a lot of stuff that we don\u2019t know. Just waiting for more information to come out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Portland<\/p>\n

Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncy Billups.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Rozier was not in the playing rotation for Miami’s season-opening game in Orlando this week. He was in uniform and on the bench, eligible to play if the Heat decided they needed him. There was no indication that night that any new legal trouble was looming.<\/p>\n

By the time the team left Orlando, it was obvious that Rozier wouldn’t be with the club again for some time. The challenge now for the Heat, Spoelstra said, is to figure out how to move forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re left with no other choice,” Spoelstra said. “The league doesn\u2019t wait. It doesn\u2019t stop for you … You have to learn how to compartmentalise and focus on the most immediate thing. And that\u2019s preparing for an important game tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The reality began setting in for the Miami Heat on Saturday morning (AEDT) when they gathered for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-241142","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-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241142","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=241142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}