{"id":728361,"date":"2026-06-10T22:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T22:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/728361\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T22:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T22:51:11","slug":"new-nba-rumors-reveal-kelel-wares-trade-value-amid-giannis-to-heat-buzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/728361\/","title":{"rendered":"New NBA Rumors Reveal Kel&#8217;el Ware&#8217;s Trade Value Amid Giannis to Heat Buzz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Rumors linking Giannis Antetokounmpo to the Miami Heat continue to persist despite the Heat arguably having far worse trade packages to offer than many other potential suitors. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">One such player who would almost assuredly be in those conversations is center Kel&#8217;el Ware, and on Wednesday <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/sports\/nba\/miami-heat\/article316076567.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Barry Jackson<\/a> of the Miami Herald discussed what he&#8217;s heard around the league regarding Ware&#8217;s trade value.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;With regard to Ware, I&#8217;m not sure why the Bucks would want to flip him, even though they have underachieving Myles Turner under contract for three more years,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;If the Heat simply traded Ware on his own, Miami very likely would get a first-round pick back based on interest shown in the league, a source said. (The Heat has no intention of trading Ware on his own.)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Ware, 22, averaged 11.1 points, nine rebounds and 1.1 blocks in 77 games during the 2025-26 season (34 starts), shooting 53 percent from the field and 39.5 percent from three. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">He&#8217;s emerging as a solid player, though he&#8217;s hardly a signature piece in a trade for a player of Antetokounmpo&#8217;s stature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;At the end of the day, though, it goes back to the original point. I think if Giannis winds up in Miami, it&#8217;s because the Heat were the last team standing,&#8221; ESPN&#8217;s Tim Bontemps said during Wednesday&#8217;s Hoop Collective podcast (7:37 mark). &#8220;I think if there&#8217;s other teams in the race, at least for me, if I was (general manager) Jon Horst in Milwaukee and I was looking at it, the Heat package is fine. But it&#8217;s not enough for me if any of these other teams decide to get in the mix.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">A Giannis trade is almost assuredly coming, with NBA insiders\u00a0<a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/marcstein.substack.com\/p\/the-nbas-up-to-the-minute-trade-chatter\">Marc Stein and Jake Fischer<\/a>\u00a0writing Tuesday that &#8220;there really is a growing expectation throughout the NBA&#8221;\u00a0of such a deal before the NBA draft on June 23. And if Giannis expresses that he wants the Heat and doesn&#8217;t want to play for other franchises, that could impact the trade market favorably for Miami. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Bucks still have their own leverage, however\u2014they get final say on the trade they agree to make, or whether they make one at all. And in the meantime, players like Ware wait to see where they&#8217;ll be playing their basketball next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rumors linking Giannis Antetokounmpo to the Miami Heat continue to persist despite the Heat arguably having far worse&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-728361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728361","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=728361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}