{"id":886088,"date":"2026-09-09T20:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T20:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/886088\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T20:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T20:46:09","slug":"heat-notes-irving-holiday-wiggins-thompson-roster-flexibility-larsson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/886088\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat Notes: Irving, Holiday, Wiggins, Thompson, Roster Flexibility, Larsson"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s unrealistic to expect the Heat to add either Kyrie Irving<\/a> or Jrue Holiday<\/a>\u00a0in order to upgrade their point guard situation, according to Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In Irving\u2019s case, his $39.4MM salary this season would be a major roadblock. If the Mavericks chose to trade Irving at some point, the Heat would likely would need to send three players in return and Dallas already has 15 guaranteed contracts. Additionally, the Mavericks would probably want\u00a0 at least one first-round pick in such a deal and the Heat doesn\u2019t have any tradeable first-round picks.<\/p>\n

In Holiday\u2019s case, it\u2019s highly unlikely the Trail Blazers will decide to\u00a0buy him out. He\u2019s due $34.2MM this season and holds a $37.2MM option for the 2027\/28 season. Trading for Holiday would require multiple salaries to be dealt to Portland and it would be difficult to replace them due to Miami\u2019s hard cap status. Portland would also want draft capital that the Heat doesn\u2019t possess.<\/p>\n

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

Andrew Wiggins<\/a> is thrilled to be reunited with Klay Thompson<\/a>, Jackson relays. Wiggins made his comments on a social media video posted by the club. \u201cHe\u2019s one of the most competitive people I played with,\u201d Wiggins said. \u201cTo have him on the squad is going to be amazing. He brings that championship mentality to the team. This is a year that we can do something special, and he\u2019s someone that can be a big part of it.\u201d
\nThe team does have some limited roster flexibility, Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sun Sentinel<\/a> notes. They have enough cap room to add a 15th player on a veteran\u2019s minimum deal, though it might be wise for them to keep that spot open to add a player on the buyout market or to facilitate a trade down the road. They could also have more salary to play with if they don\u2019t fully guarantee Myron Gardner<\/a>\u2019s contract in January. Gardner has a $500K guarantee on his $2,584,539 salary.
\nAt the right price, it would be worthwhile for the front office to sign Pelle Larsson<\/a> to an extension, Winderman<\/a> opines in his latest mailbag. Nikola Jovic<\/a>\u2019s four-year, $62.4MM extension kicks in this season and a reader noted that might have been a mistake by the front office, considering how Jovic underachieved last season. However, Winderman notes that the price of quality reserves continues to rise, plus Thompson and Tim Hardaway Jr.<\/a> could enter free agency next summer, which gives the team\u2019s brass even more incentive to lock in Larsson to a long-term deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s unrealistic to expect the Heat to add either Kyrie Irving or Jrue Holiday\u00a0in order to upgrade their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":886089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[20446,64,63,726,7217,14231,13798,372215,65416,71148,85,4701],"class_list":["post-886088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-andrew-wiggins","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-jrue-holiday","tag-klay-thompson","tag-kyrie-irving","tag-myron-gardner","tag-nikola-jovic","tag-pelle-larsson","tag-sports","tag-tim-hardaway-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886088","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=886088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}