Q:\u00a0 What will Miami do with Norman Powell\u2019s contract next year? He has become the team\u2019s best player with all due respect to Tyler Herro, and Powell has been highly consistent, as well. \u2013 Ed.<\/p>\n
A: Agree about Norman Powell and his consistency<\/a>, and availability. But the Heat also don\u2019t have to do anything immediately, with that extension window open though the season, otherwise with Bird Rights to re-sign Norman in free agency in the offseason. What the Heat can\u2019t do at the moment is get caught up in the moment<\/a>, even with Norman\u2019s solid performances this past week. If you are the Heat, you do not commit to anything else extensive going forward (including a Tyler Herro extension) unless you are certainly you are more, far more, than a play-in team. At the moment, we\u2019re talking about a team that is 20-16 and in seventh place \u2013 play-in place \u2013 in the East.<\/p>\n Q: Ira, explain how Tyler Herro was back in uniform but not on the court? \u2013 Alan.<\/p>\n A: I\u2019m not sure I can. To be that close, to go through pregame warmups, and then to watch the game in uniform, listed as \u201cDid Not Play \u2013 Coach\u2019s Decision,\u201d it certainly is odd. If you didn\u2019t know better, you would think management was tiring of Tyler\u2019s game-day fashion choices when out of uniform. Erik Spoelstra said Tyler would travel, which he did not on the last trip to Atlanta, so perhaps back on Tuesday night in Minnesota.<\/p>\n Q: Hi Ira, what do we have to do to save Pelle Larsson\u2019s face? I\u2019ve never seen anything like it. Every game. Every single game. He\u2019s too handsome for that and the NBA needs to step in. \u2013 Eddie.<\/p>\n A: Actually, the Panthers need to step in and give him one of Sergei Bobrovsky\u2019s masks. Or perhaps since Pelle is from Sweden, get one that Henrik Lundqvist doesn\u2019t need anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Q:\u00a0 What will Miami do with Norman Powell\u2019s contract next year? He has become the team\u2019s best player…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17325,114,123,125,2490,16151,124,2295,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-106123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-ask-ira","9":"tag-latest-headlines","10":"tag-miami","11":"tag-miami-headlines","12":"tag-miami-heat","13":"tag-miami-heat-blog","14":"tag-miami-news","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}