With Ament eventually heading to the Bucks, the Heat missed out on making and keeping a lottery pick for the first time since taking Herro with the 13th overall pick in 2019.<\/p>\n
The Bucks also selected guard Brayden Burries out of Arizona with their own pick at No. 10 in the first round just a few picks before Miami selected for Milwaukee.<\/p>\n
Over the last decade, the No. 13 pick in the draft has proven there is potential to find productive players at that spot. The last 10 players who have been taken at No. 13 in the NBA Draft are Derik Queen in 2025, Devin Carter in 2024, Gradey Dick in 2023, Jalen Duren in 2022, Chris Duarte in 2021, Kira Lewis Jr. in 2020, Herro in 2019, Jerome Robinson in 2018, Donovan Mitchell in 2017 and Georgios Papagiannis in 2017.<\/p>\n
Devin Booker was taken with the No. 13 pick in 2015 and Basketball Hall of Famer Kobe Bryant was selected with the No. 13 pick in the 1996 draft.<\/p>\n
Even after sending a haul of draft capital to the Bucks for Antetokounmpo, the Heat holds three of its next four first-round picks after this year. The Heat is on track to have a first-round pick in either 2027 or 2028, and also has its first-round selections in 2029 and 2030.<\/p>\n
The Heat\u2019s 2027 first-round pick will go to the Hornets if it\u2019s between picks No. 15 and No. 30. If the Heat\u2019s pick in next year\u2019s draft falls between No. 1 and No. 14, Miami would keep that pick and send Charlotte an unprotected first-round pick in 2028.<\/p>\n
The top five selections in this year\u2019s NBA Draft were: No. 1 AJ Dybantsa to the Washington Wizards, No. 2 Darryn Peterson to the Utah Jazz, No. 3 Cameron Boozer (Miami-Columbus High product) to the Memphis Grizzlies, No. 4 Caleb Wilson to the Chicago Bulls and No. 5 Keaton Wagler to the Los Angeles Clippers.<\/p>\n
SECOND ROUND UP NEXT<\/p>\n
While the Heat hasn\u2019t added a player in the first round of this year\u2019s draft, the Heat is set to acquire a player through the draft with the 41st overall pick in the second round on Wednesday (8 p.m., ESPN).<\/p>\n
The Heat received this second-round selection from the Hornets to resolve a dispute over Rozier being under NBA and federal investigation over alleged gambling when Charlotte traded him to Miami in January 2024.<\/p>\n
It marks the first time that the Heat has had a second-round pick since 2024, when it came away with guard Pelle Larsson with the 44th overall selection. Among the other recent players who the Heat selected or traded for in the second round are KZ Okpala in 2019 and Josh Richardson in 2015.<\/p>\n
While first-round picks are slotted into salaries through the NBA\u2019s rookie scale, there isn\u2019t as much structure with second-round selections. NBA teams can use a two-way contract or standard contract to sign a second-round pick.<\/p>\n
The Heat\u2019s doesn\u2019t have cap space, but it can use a minimum contract to sign the No. 41 pick to a standard deal and that would come with a $1.4 million cap hit. Minimum deals can be no longer than two seasons in length.<\/p>\n
The Heat could also use the relatively new second-round pick exception to sign the No. 41 selection to a standard contract that includes a first-year salary worth up to the minimum salary for a player with one year of NBA experience of $2.2 million. Every team that made a second-round selection has a second-round pick exception, which can be used to sign a second-round pick to a three- or four-year contract without needing to use a mid-level exception to do it.<\/p>\n
The Heat also has the ability to purchase an additional second-round pick or sell its second-round selection, which has become commonplace over the years. A team that buys a second-round pick becomes hard-capped at the second apron for the entirety of that upcoming season, but that\u2019s not an issue for Miami since it\u2019s already hard-capped at the first apron because it took back more salary than it sent out in the trade for Antetokounmpo.<\/p>\n
The Heat, which has yet to include cash or receive cash as part of a trade during the 2025-26 NBA calendar, has the full $7.964 million to send out and the full $7.964 million to receive in a potential transaction involving a second-round selection.<\/p>\n
This story was originally published June 23, 2026 at 9:33 PM.<\/p>\n
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