{"id":789230,"date":"2026-07-09T13:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/789230\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T13:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:08:11","slug":"heat-notes-gardner-k-johnson-giannis-conwell-hardaway-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/789230\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat Notes: Gardner, K. Johnson, Giannis, Conwell, Hardaway Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"

Summer League play is already over for Heat forward Myron Gardner<\/a>, Anthony Chiang of The Miami Herald<\/a> writes in a subscriber-only story. Gardner sprained his left ankle seven minutes into the team\u2019s first game Friday in the California Classic and was held out for the rest of the competition. He has been sent back to Miami for treatment and won\u2019t be available for the Las Vegas Summer League.<\/p>\n

Gardner, 25, was a standout last summer, helping him earn a two-way contract with the Heat. He was promoted to a standard deal in mid-February and wound up playing 45 games (seven starts) while averaging 3.6 points and 2.7 rebounds in 9.1 minutes per night during his rookie season.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s tough for him individually,\u201d Summer League head coach Wayne Ellington said. \u201cI felt like he was going to have a great Summer League. He\u2019s been in the gym all offseason, working, grinding. So it\u2019s tough, but it\u2019s basketball. It\u2019s part of it. And he\u2019ll still get his opportunities to get out there on the floor and show his development and things that he\u2019s worked on this summer so far.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s more on the Heat:<\/p>\n

Keshad Johnson<\/a> didn\u2019t receive a qualifying offer<\/a> last month, but he was seen with Miami\u2019s California Classic team in San Francisco, Chiang adds. There\u2019s a possibility that Johnson could join the roster in Las Vegas, according to Chiang, but he didn\u2019t practice with the team on Wednesday. An unrestricted free agent, the 25-year-old small forward is looking for an opportunity after spending his first two NBA seasons with the Heat.
\nGiannis Antetokounmpo<\/a> won\u2019t be wearing his trademark No. 34 with the Heat next season, Chiang states in a separate story<\/a>. The team began selling Antetokounmpo jerseys with that number shortly after the trade was finalized on Monday, but found out seven hours later than he plans to change to No. 7. Fans who bought erroneous jerseys will be able to exchange them for the correct model. Second-round pick Ryan Conwell<\/a>, who had been slated to wear No. 7, decided to switch to No. 4 after being notified by the team\u2019s equipment staff. \u201cI mean, Giannis, he gets whatever he wants. I\u2019m just now coming into the league,\u201d Conwell said. \u201cSo I got a lot of work to do and I\u2019m trying to get to where he\u2019s at.\u201d
\nContrary to earlier reports<\/a>, Tim Hardaway Jr.<\/a> will get to wear his father\u2019s retired No. 10 after signing with the Heat in free agency, per Tim Reynolds of The Associated Press<\/a>. During an introductory press conference on Wednesday, the younger Hardaway said seeing the number in the rafters gave him a \u201csuperpower\u201d when he came to Miami as a visiting player. He added that joining forces with Antetokounmpo and Bam Adebayo<\/a> was an easy decision. \u201cOnce the call came, I think it was kind of a no-brainer,\u201d Hardaway said. \u201cIt\u2019s the right fit, not only for this franchise, but for me personally \u2014 especially when you have two guys out there that definitely need spacing for them to go out there and operate and do what they do best. My job here, it\u2019s just to make their life easy and that\u2019s to knock down shots.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summer League play is already over for Heat forward Myron Gardner, Anthony Chiang of The Miami Herald writes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,7228,243305,372215,71680,85,4701],"class_list":["post-789230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","tag-keshad-johnson","tag-myron-gardner","tag-ryan-conwell","tag-sports","tag-tim-hardaway-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789230","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=789230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}