against the Wizards on Sunday<\/a>, considering the willingness to win and risk lottery position is minimal at this stage for Washington. And that probably goes for playing Kasparas Jakucionis ahead of Dru Smith on Sunday. Clearly, Erik Spoelstra saw the opportunity to experiment once it became clear there would not be any resistance from the Wizards. so perhaps more of the same against the Jazz and even Pelicans before the All-Star break, but probably would stop short of saying this is now definitively\u00a0 a thing.<\/p>\nQ: Why hasn\u2019t Terry Rozier been released yet? \u2013 Sid.<\/p>\n
A: I\u2019d say mostly because of the lack of urgency,\u00a0 as well as wanting and needing to make the right choice, since no more than two players can be added without risking the luxury tax, which is not happening. As it is, Dru Smith and Nikola Jovic only played mop-up duty Sunday in Washington. At this stage, it is better to take the All-Star break to reassess, or even wait to see who else shakes free on the buyout market.<\/p>\n
Q: Did the Heat wait to watch the Super Bowl after Sunday\u2019s game? \u2013 Nan.<\/p>\n
A: Such an approach would not be unusual. But in this case, with Sunday\u2019s game in Washington part of a back-to-back set that concludes Monday against the Jazz<\/a> at Kaseya Center, there was no such luxury. As it is, the schedule has been so compacted that the Heat then immediately head out Tuesday for Wednesday night\u2019s game in New Orleans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Q: Ira, you can play anyone against Washington and win, so I\u2019m not falling for Kel\u2019el Ware and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148741,"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-148740","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\/148740","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=148740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}