{"id":301002,"date":"2026-06-09T06:21:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T06:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/301002\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T06:21:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T06:21:24","slug":"windhorst-heat-the-team-to-watch-in-giannis-trade-sweepstakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/301002\/","title":{"rendered":"Windhorst: Heat \u2018The Team To Watch\u2019 In Giannis Trade Sweepstakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Heat are \u201cthe team to watch\u201d as trade talks surrounding Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a> intensify, Brian Windhorst said Monday morning on ESPN\u2019s \u201cGet Up\u201d during a panel discussion of the Bucks star (Twitter video link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cMiami would say \u2026 well, we\u2019ve got Tyler Herro<\/a>, who is a young player who\u2019s been an All-Star, we\u2019ve got draft picks, including the 13th pick in this draft \u2013 we can give you a lottery pick in this draft \u2013 and Giannis, I think, wants to be in Miami,\u201d Windhorst said. \u201cThere\u2019s more checkmarks on Miami.\u201d<\/p>\n

A report<\/a> last week from Sam Amick and Eric Nehm of The Athletic listed Herro and the No. 13 pick as part of the Heat\u2019s likely offer to Milwaukee, along with second-year center Kel\u2019el Ware<\/a>, Sixth Man of the Year runner-up Jaime Jaquez Jr.<\/a> and two future first-rounders. However, Amick stated Friday on a radio show that Antetokounmpo has \u201cquestions\u201d<\/a> about the quality of Miami\u2019s remaining roster if that deal were to go through.<\/p>\n

Antetokounmpo is under contract for one more season at $58.5MM and holds a $62.8MM player option for 2027\/28, so there\u2019s some risk involved in trading for him if he\u2019s not fully committed to staying with his new team.<\/p>\n

The Bucks are reportedly hoping to resolve the Antetokounmpo situation before the draft begins on June 23, either by trading the 10-time All-Star or getting him to commit to a long-term extension that he\u2019ll become eligible to sign later in the year. Numerous teams have been pursuing Antetokounmpo since the trade deadline or even longer, with the Heat being among the most aggressive.<\/p>\n

During the discussion, Windhorst became the latest reporter to throw cold water on the idea that the Thunder might part with Chet Holmgren<\/a> or Jalen Williams<\/a> to acquire Antetokounmpo following their playoff loss or that the Celtics may get involved with a multi-team deal involving Jaylen Brown<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe message that Oklahoma City is sending out is that they are not touching that core,\u201d Windhorst said. \u201cYou can choose to not believe them if you want; they say they\u2019re running it back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Regarding the Celtics, Windhorst stated, \u201cI\u2019m not sure Boston is ready to trade Jaylen Brown. Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum<\/a> have won a championship together. I thought there was a decent chance we\u2019d be in Boston right now for Game 3 of these Finals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Heat are \u201cthe team to watch\u201d as trade talks surrounding Giannis Antetokounmpo intensify, Brian Windhorst said Monday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[45901,38421,38341,26180,123,125,124,13465],"class_list":["post-301002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-chet-holmgren","tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","tag-jalen-williams","tag-jaylen-brown","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-tyler-herro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301002","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=301002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}