{"id":785198,"date":"2026-07-26T08:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T08:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/785198\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T08:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T08:42:08","slug":"klay-thompson-remains-miamis-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/785198\/","title":{"rendered":"Klay Thompson remains Miami&#8217;s priority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/sports\/nba\/miami-heat\/article316539202.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Thompson remains the Heat priority,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Thompson remains the Heat priority,&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Thompson remains the Heat priority,<\/a> even though there\u2019s no indication when or if he will shake free from Dallas. The Mavericks, well below the luxury tax line, have no particular financial incentive to dump Thompson \u2014 who\u2019s owed $17.5 million in the final year of a three-year contract \u2014 unless he\u2019s willing to take a significant pay cut on a buyout. The Heat might end up needing that $8 million in exception money to bridge the gap with what he would be losing by taking a buyout with Dallas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/sports\/nba\/miami-heat\/article316539202.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Miami Herald;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Miami Herald&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Miami Herald<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thompson remains the Heat priority, even though there\u2019s no indication when or if he will shake free from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[334100,355,99,114980,37567,8228],"class_list":["post-785198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-financial-incentive","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-the-heat","tag-the-mavericks","tag-thompson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}