Miami Heat(Mandatory Credit: Bob DeChiara-Imagn Images)

We are nearly one month away from the start of training camp! The Miami Heat currently have 18 of their 21 maximum spots filled, so let’s examine which players will be heading into camp for the 2025-26 season!

Players on standard contracts (14):

Bam Adebayo

Tyler Herro

Kasparas Jakucionis

Jaime Jaquez Jr.

Keshad Johnson

Nikola Jovic

Pelle Larsson

Davion Mitchell

Norman Powell

Terry Rozier

Dru Smith

Kel’el Ware

Andrew Wiggins

Bam Adebayo and Tyler Herro headline the 2025-26 roster, hoping to bounce back from an embarrassing first-round exit in the playoffs against the top-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers.

Herro is coming off his first All-Star appearance, tallying a career-high 23.9 points on 47.2 percent shooting and 37.5 percent from 3-point range.

After a sluggish start to the season, Adebayo finished the 2024-25 campaign very strongly, even though his final numbers may not be indicative of that. He averaged 18.1 points and 9.6 rebounds on just 56.1 percent true shooting, the lowest of his career.

Among the new faces on the roster are Powell, Jakucionis and Fontecchio. Powell was acquired in a three-team trade away from the Los Angeles Clippers, while Fontecchio was the sole piece in the Duncan Robinson sign-and-trade in July.

The Heat drafted Jakucionis with the No. 20 overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft. The 19-year-old, one of the best point guards in the class, is arguably the Heat’s best pure passer right now. He had a strong showing in the Las Vegas Summer League after a disappointing California Classic.

Players on two-way contracts (2):

Teams can have up to three players on two-way contracts; those players are paid roughly half of the rookie minimum (~$636K), but they don’t count against the cap.

They are eligible to be active for up to 50 regular-season games, except if the team isn’t carrying a full 15-man roster. In that case, they could only be active for a combined 90 games. They are not eligible to play in the playoffs.

Myron Gardner:

Listed at 6-foot-6, Gardner, 24, was one of the Heat’s Summer League standouts.

He signed a two-year, two-way contract (most are just for one year). In Las Vegas, he averaged 13.2 points, 4.2 rebounds and 2.8 steals on 64.5 percent true shooting, including a 16-point, six-rebound, four-steal effort in their final game against the Milwaukee Bucks.

Gardner spent his last two seasons playing professionally with the Osceola Magic, Orlando’s G-League squad. He averaged 10.0 points and 6.3 rebounds on 49.0 percent shooting, 35.3 percent from 3-point range and 76.1 percent from the free-throw line.

Vlad Goldin:

Goldin, an undrafted rookie, signed a two-way deal with the Heat upon the end of the 2025 NBA Draft.

In six Summer League games, the 7-foot-1 big averaged 9.2 points, 4.8 rebounds and 1.0 block per game on 68.3 percent true shooting. Goldin will have to become more flexible at the NBA level, but he’s a mammoth when he’s on the court.

Goldin, 24, averaged 16.6 points and 7.9 rebounds in his lone season at Michigan last year — one year after posting a 16-8-2 block stat line in just 24.9 minutes at Florida Atlantic in 2023-24. He is the Heat’s lone option behind Bam Adebayo and Kel’el Ware at center.

Players on Exhibit 10 contracts (6):

Exhibit 10 contracts are non-guaranteed training camp deals. These players will presumably fight for either a roster spot or a two-way contract. They can be waived and sign with the organization’s G-League affiliate for at least 60 days if they want to earn a contract bonus

Ethan Thompson:

Thompson has spent the last four professional seasons in the G-League with the Windy City Bulls, Mexico City Capitanes and Osceola Magic. Last year with Osceola, he averaged 17.8 points, 4.7 rebounds and 1.1 steals on 41.5 percent shooting, 39.6 percent from beyond the arc and 80.5 percent from the charity stripe. He’s an undrafted guard from Oregon State and was most recently on a two-way contract with the Magic.

Jahmir Young:

Young spent last season in the Chicago Bulls organization. The 6-foot-1 guard averaged 21.7 points and 7.1 assists across 43 G-League regular season games with Windy City, shooting 46.7 percent and 30.2 percent from 3-point range.

With Chicago’s Summer League team, the Maryland alum averaged 13.6 points and four dimes on 53.3/56.3/84.6 shooting splits, including an insane 40-point performance (13-18 FG, 7-8 3PT) against the Milwaukee Bucks.

Dain Dainja:

Dainja, a rookie out of Memphis, spent the Summer with the Heat organization. In five Summer League games, he averaged 9.2 points and 2.6 rebounds per game, converting on 16 of his 26 field goal attempts (61.5 percent). He was a much strong rebounder at Memphis with good mobility for his size at 6-foot-9, 255 pounds.

Gabe Madsen:

Madsen, a rookie out of Utah, spent the Summer with the Golden State Warriors. A 6-foot-6 wing, he averaged 9.2 points on 51.9 percent shooting from 3-point range on 4.5 3-point attempts per game. He struggled from distance in his senior season (32.2 3P%), but he shot 38.2 percent from beyond the arc while averaging 11.0 points and 2.7 rebounds over his three previous seasons (2021-24).

Trevor Keels:

Keels is entering his fourth professional season. He spent the last two with the Iowa Wolves — the Minnesota Timberwolves G-League squad — averaging 19.8 points, 3.4 rebounds and 3.7 assists on 44.2/36.9/78.6 shooting splits across 46 games last year. He was the No. 42 overall pick out of Duke in the 2022 NBA Draft.

Precious Achiuwa:

Achiuwa, 26, is the only multi-year NBA vet on this list. He signed a one-year fully non-guaranteed contract Wednesday. Last season with the New York Knicks, he averaged 6.6 points and 5.6 rebounds. The Heat drafted Achiuwa No. 20 overall in the 2020 NBA Draft, but he was traded after one season in the Kyle Lowry sign-and-trade.

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