{"id":227293,"date":"2026-04-11T05:58:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/227293\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T05:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:58:20","slug":"heat-waive-rozier-open-roster-spot-to-ink-player-for-postseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/227293\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat waive Rozier, open roster spot to ink player for postseason"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Miami Heat<\/a> waived embattled guard Terry Rozier<\/a> on Friday, opening up a roster spot to sign a player for the postseason.<\/p>\n

Miami has until Sunday to sign another player. The Heat open play in the play-in tournament either Tuesday or Wednesday.<\/p>\n

NBA teams had until 5 p.m. Friday to waive a player with either an expiring contract or one where the team held an option for next season. Rozier is in the final year of a four-year, $97 million contract he originally signed with the Charlotte Hornets<\/a> — a deal that pays him $26.6 million this season with Miami.<\/p>\n

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Rozier has been away from the Heat since his arrest on Oct. 23<\/a> as part of a wide-ranging investigation into illegal sports betting<\/a>. He was placed on leave by the NBA shortly thereafter for his alleged involvement in illegal sports betting dating back to his time with the Hornets.<\/p>\n

Rozier has pleaded not guilty to conspiracy charges of wire fraud and money laundering.<\/p>\n

Rozier was traded<\/a> from Charlotte to Miami in January 2024, a deal that has come under scrutiny over whether the Heat should have been made aware of NBA and federal investigations into the alleged gambling conspiracy before the trade was completed.<\/p>\n

The Hornets agreed to send a second-round pick in this June’s NBA draft to Miami to resolve the dispute<\/a>. Miami owes its 2027 first-round pick (lottery protected, which becomes an unprotected 2028 first if it doesn’t convey) to Charlotte as part of the deal.<\/p>\n

Commissioner Adam Silver called it an “unprecedented situation” in a news conference at the NBA Cup in Las Vegas in December.<\/p>\n

Rozier has averaged 13.9 points per game in his career. He spent his first four seasons in Boston<\/a> before stops with the Hornets and Heat.<\/p>\n

ESPN’s Tim Bontemps and The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Heat waived embattled guard Terry Rozier on Friday, opening up a roster spot to sign a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-227293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227293","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=227293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}