{"id":48538,"date":"2025-11-16T10:09:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T10:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/48538\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T10:09:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T10:09:23","slug":"miami-heat-assign-rookie-guard-to-g-league-hot-hot-hoops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/48538\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Heat assign rookie guard to G-League &#8211; Hot Hot Hoops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-15-12.27PM.jpg\" alt=\"Kasparas Jakucionis\" class=\"wp-image-12553\"  \/>Miami Heat guard Kasparas Jakucionis is one of three players drafted in the top-20 who have yet to play through one month. (Mandatory Credit: Harry How\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Despite all of the encouraging performances leaguewide from this year\u2019s rookie class, one player who still hasn\u2019t seen the hardwood through the first month is Miami Heat guard Kasparas Jakucionis.<\/p>\n<p>Jakucionis, selected No. 20 overall in last June\u2019s draft, missed the team\u2019s seven games with a groin injury. But head coach Erik Spoelstra still hasn\u2019t found a way to wiggle the 19-year-old into the rotation since he\u2019s been available.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Miami will be sending him down to the Sioux Falls Skyforce, the Heat\u2019s G-League affiliate, Anthony Chiang (Miami Herald) and Ira Winderman (South Florida Sun Sentinel) were <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IraHeatBeat\/status\/1989742359446524092?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">among the first to report<\/a> Saturday.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Heat have sent Kasparas Jakucionis to Sioux Falls of the G League.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ira Winderman (@IraHeatBeat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IraHeatBeat\/status\/1989742359446524092?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 15, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Heat sent Kasparas Jakucionis to Sioux Falls today for some work. Jakucionis hasn\u2019t played yet this season after missing the first seven games with a groin injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anthony Chiang (@Anthony_Chiang) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Anthony_Chiang\/status\/1989742207562310058?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 15, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jakucionis was excellent in his preseason debut against the San Antonio Spurs, dishing out 10 assists with eight points, two steals and one block. <\/p>\n<p>But the 6-foot-5 guard appeared in just two preseason contests after a rocky Summer League. Thus, reps as a primary initiator will be crucial to Jakucionis\u2019 development, even in the G-League.<\/p>\n<p>Jakucionis is just one of three players drafted in the top-20 who haven\u2019t played a single second. The others are Oklahoma City\u2019s Thomas Sorber, who will miss the season with a torn ACL, and Chicago\u2019s Noa Essengue.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the Heat have called up two-way guard Jahmir Young. <\/p>\n<p>Jakucionis\u2019 first game with the Skyforce will be on Sunday against the Windy City Bulls (Chicago\u2019s affiliate).<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>To check out our other content, click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hothothoops.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Hot Hot Hoops on Twitter\/X\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hothothoops?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Follow Hot Hot Hoops on Instagram\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/hothothoops?fbclid=PAAaZK-uxa3cMPUQcM2z6aGmK3faJ-G1R7YKtEOcPJNPO4VwfOvw1epBIoCyk_aem_Ad_aZ7zQwWkfVN5rHfd0UkIWrYEnU4j4Ulz0SRK__Qt1738L-NeQ3cZC5voFks7V6K8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Check out Hot Hot Hoops on Facebook\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/1GUQbKhsRp\/?mibextid=wwXIfr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our YouTube channel\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hothothoops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Heat guard Kasparas Jakucionis is one of three players drafted in the top-20 who have yet to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[21562,1454,31265,31266,31267,31268,31269,31270,31271,31272,123,125,2490,31273,124,31274,31275],"class_list":["post-48538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-2025-26-miami-heat-season","tag-heat","tag-heat-news","tag-kasparas-jakucionis","tag-kasparas-jakucionis-g-league","tag-kasparas-jakucionis-heat","tag-kasparas-jakucionis-miami-heat","tag-kasparas-jakucionis-news","tag-kasparas-jakucionis-sioux-falls-skyforce","tag-kasparas-jakucionis-skyforce","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-heat","tag-miami-heat-news","tag-miami-news","tag-sioux-falls-skyforce","tag-skyforce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48538","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=48538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}