{"id":64651,"date":"2025-11-29T18:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T18:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/64651\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T18:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T18:32:10","slug":"duncan-robinson-return-to-miami-will-be-fun-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/64651\/","title":{"rendered":"Duncan Robinson: Return To Miami Will Be Fun, Weird"},"content":{"rendered":"

Duncan Robinson<\/a> spent his first seven NBA seasons with the Heat. He\u2019ll return to Miami for the first time in a different uniform when the Pistons visit on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited. It is definitely going to be a fun experience, but weird. I have so much rhythm and flow of being on the other side of that building, it\u2019s going to be interesting,\u201d Robinson told the Detroit News\u2019 Coty Davis<\/a>. \u201cBut, I am excited, especially the chance to go in there with this group, go out there and try to get a win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Robinson wound up<\/a> in Detroit as part of a sign-and-trade at the beginning of free agency. Robinson\u00a0terminated<\/a>\u00a0his contract with the\u00a0Heat\u00a0in order to become a free agent. Had Robinson opted into the final year of his deal, his $19.9MM salary for \u201925\/26 would have become partially guaranteed for $9.9MM, which would have forced Miami to decide whether to guarantee his remaining $10MM or waive him in order to create $10MM in savings.<\/p>\n

He signed a three-year, $48MM deal with Detroit. It\u2019s only partially guaranteed in year two and non-guaranteed in year three.<\/p>\n

Robinson has started all 19 games with the Pistons, averaging 12.3 points. He\u2019s shooting 40.6 percent from beyond the arc but feels he can do more.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are still working through some things, building synergy on both sides of the ball,\u201d Robinson said. \u201cWe have a system on both ends that we are trying to play to. The goal throughout the season is to optimize that. From an individual standpoint, continue to become more comfortable and aggressive and find my spots.\u201d<\/p>\n

Robinson appreciates the time he spent in the Heat organization.<\/p>\n

\u201cHeat culture is all about maximizing every day, putting your best foot forward and taking advantage of every opportunity,\u201d Robinson said. \u201cPat (Riley) is a legend himself. I was a beneficiary of the stability of that organization and learned a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Heat\u2019s coach still keeps close tabs on his former player.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019ll be strange,\u201d Erik Spoelstra said, per Ira Winderman of the Sun Sentinel<\/a>. \u201cI catch a lot of their games and I\u2019ve watched their highlights a lot. I still root for Duncan. He\u2019s one of the great success stories from our building. I wrote him a note after the deal, and I\u2019ve told him this before, but I really do think his story is so inspirational that eventually it can be a book, a movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Robinson holds the Heat franchise record with 1,202 made 3-pointers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat just doesn\u2019t happen, where you come from Division III, then transfer, be a sixth man (at Michigan), and then to come into the league and get to 1,000 threes as quickly as he did and break our record for threes, and then he\u2019s going to continue to go,\u201d Spoelstra said.\u00a0\u201cThat\u2019s just a credit to his fortitude and grit, just an amazing super power. So I do root for him, but it looks strange, him in that uniform, it really does.\u201d<\/p>\n

The franchise will show a Robinson tribute video prior to the contest, Anthony Chiang of the Miami Herald tweets<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Duncan Robinson spent his first seven NBA seasons with the Heat. He\u2019ll return to Miami for the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[38475,8088,123,125,124],"class_list":{"0":"post-64651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-duncan-robinson","9":"tag-erik-spoelstra","10":"tag-miami","11":"tag-miami-headlines","12":"tag-miami-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64651","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=64651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}