2017-18 Finish: 32-50

Season Highlight: Sins of our fathers

With the rise of the new season Miami Heat had an amazing start, taking advantage of their big Mozgov and the only able to score guard at that moment JJ Redick. Their first week were almost perfect 3-1, beating teams like New York, Los Angeles Lakers and Indiana only losing to New Orleans… for some reason. On the second week they repeat the record winning three games and losing one to the Pistons. After four weeks they were 10 - 6 giving a surprising bright horizon for the supporters. 

 

Season Lowlight: And so we finally had some small tweaks in our patch and center became less dominant sending Mozgov back to the ground…. Not really. However Miami had to slow down and eventually giving up the chance to fight for the Playoffs. On week 6 they lost easy games against Wizards, Blazers and Hawks and fans were already cool down their hype.

 

Best Trade: Miami is not so trade active like Detroit Pistons but they did some interesting deals last season.

The Boston Celtics send Justin Jackson to the Oklahoma City Thunder.

The Miami Heat send Eric Moreland to the Oklahoma City Thunder.

The Oklahoma City Thunder send Michael Beasley, Jevon Carter and Khyri Thomas to the Miami Heat.

The Oklahoma City Thunder send a 2nd-Rounder (LAC) to the Miami Heat.

  

Good value for Eric Moreland which end up renounced by the Thunder. New blood Thomas and Carter will dispute the backup point guard position. Carter is a good scorer, he had huge games in NBA Summer League. A future second is also welcome to build a solid bench

 

Worst Trade:  

The Boston Celtics send Derrick Favors, Avery Bradley and Lucas Nogueira to the Miami Heat.

The Miami Heat send Devin Harris, Channing Frye, Dwight Powell and Kyle Kuzma to the Boston Celtics.

The Miami Heat send a 2nd-Rounder (Sac) to the Boston Celtics.

 

Actually not a bad trade but a risky one. Miami Heat sent away their best prospect Kyle Kuzma, 1 young role player, 2 veterans and one second round pick for 3 players on their last year contract and one first round pick for this season. Destiny smiles at the Heat and these three guys are probably returning this season but with Heat bad record it is possible the franchise have to spend some gm points to make sure.

 

Other Notable Trades:

 The Boston Celtics send Trevor Ariza and Derrick Jones Jr. to the Detroit Pistons.

The Detroit Pistons send Derrick Favors to the Boston Celtics.

 The Detroit Pistons send Bryn Forbes to the Miami Heat.

 

The Miami Heat use their trade exception over $ 1,312,611.

The Detroit Pistons receive 15 GM points. The Miami Heat trade -15 GM points.

 

An ok deal for Bryn Forbes. Good backup point guard for 15 gm points. Forbes will be a restricted free agent this season with a chance to become starter.

 

 The Oklahoma City Thunder send Tomas Satoransky to the Miami Heat.

The Miami Heat send a 2nd-Rounder (Mia) to the Oklahoma City Thunder.

 

Another trade with Thunder and Miami seems to be Oklahoma’s GLeague team. However Tomas is a great player for Miami. Tomas could play on 3 positions. Oklahoma will probably draft this pick and send again to Miami in 2020.

 

Free Agency:

Miami had a lot of room last season to fill. JJ Redick was by far their best sign. Huge money but he had an incredible season with 19 points per game and one of the best three point shooters of the league. The only shooting guard in the league actually shooting btw.

Heat also got Biyombo for 2 seasons and 17 millions. He had some good games but not great as others centers in the league.

 

Star:

JJ Redick: Signed in November, JJ makes Heat’s money worth leading the team in score for the most part of the season. The lack of help on offensive end from inside as big men were last season was the reason why the Heat couldn’t stay between top 8 in the East.

 

Goat:

Bismarck Biyombo: He could become another 20-10 center in this league but for some reason he was just another center. Now as the magic wear off Biyombo won’t see any chance to worth Heat’s money as JJ did.

 

Draft Grades (from Insider):

Bad news. The only rookies this season came from Eric Moreland deal. Carter and Thomas, both guards will help backcourt bench and will come this year.

 Upcoming Free Agents:

Heat have only 5 players on contract and some big names to re-sign most of them came from Boston deal. Miami has 39% win rate which gives it a 11% penalty on re-sign players

Derrick Favors: Returns if gm Breece spends some gm points

Micheal Beasley:  Won’t return not even a small chance.

JJ Reddick:  Another one returning and yes for some gm points

Avery Bradley: 20 more gm points and he is back

Lucas Nogueira: Fuenlabrada signed him last week, won’t come back

Bryn Forbes- A restricted free agent, which means not leaving.

Dorian Finney-Smith: Good chances to return next year.

The Future-

Good news: Proid's legacy is gone and the Heat finally has their own pick. Once a veteran team made to win now, as they did actually going to the Playoffs in past, is a broken squad with a lot of expiring contracts and non-long term young players to focus on.

It's time to finally get rid of previous owner sins and build around these future picks or even trade veterans for more if possible. Players like Favors and Bradley if return can be a good exchange good for more picks.

Either way Miami is in good hands and could be a surprise nobody expect in this season even with the team they have now.