Q: Ira, what about the Heat getting another first-round pick if they have to send No. 13 to Milwaukee in a Giannis Antetokounmpo trade? Something later is better than nothing. \u2013 Eddie.<\/p>\n
A: Is it? If you\u2019re talking about a selection in the 20s, do you really need to take on that salary hit, while also trying to fill out your post-trade roster following a Giannis Antetokounmpo deal<\/a>? But that also could come down to how much young talent is sent out, with the Heat with plenty of youth and neophytes at the moment. Plus, the Heat also have No. 41 in Wednesday night\u2019s second round, which is 11 picks removed from the first round. And the way such picks are presented, it assuredly would be a player the Heat would say had a first-round grade in their books. Yes, this year\u2019s draft is loaded. But for now, the main thing has to be the main thing, mainly finding a path to Giannis.<\/p>\n Q: Thank you for the well-deserved Tyler Herro tribute. Let\u2019s hope that this time it wasn\u2019t premature. But he\u2019s not in the same class as Jamal Murray, James Harden and Donovan Mitchell. Unlike those three, he\u2019s low or middling in the advanced analytics stats that as a group are accurate indicators of having a strong impact on winning: PER, VORP and the various versions of plus\/minus. \u2013 Morgan, New Orleans.<\/p>\n