Wut da blood clot??: The Official Miami Heat 2015-16 Offseason Thread

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The Miami Heat have extended a qualifying offer to third-year guard Tyler Johnson, the team announced Tuesday.

The move guarantees the Heat the chance to match any outside offers Johnson, a restricted free agent, gets from another team when he enters free agency July 1.

Johnson, 24, earned $845,059 during his second season in Miami. He was an undrafted guard out of Fresno State.

Heat coach Erik Spoelstra regarded Johnson as a key member of a rapidly developing young core on the team, a unit that also includes 2015 draft picks Justise Winslow and Josh Richardson.

But Johnson endured growing pains last season when he missed nearly three months after undergoing left shoulder surgery in February. He averaged 8.7 points, 3.0 rebounds and 2.2 assists in 36 games and also returned to make five appearances in the playoffs at both guard spots.

Johnson's versatility in the backcourt and his 37.8 percent shooting from 3-point range made retaining him a high priority for the Heat this offseason.
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Richardson, Weber stand as Heat answer for no 2016 draft picks

Pat Riley calls the Miami Heat "an every-other-year draft team."

His perspective is that when living in the moment when it comes to remaining in contention, there is a time and a place for the NBA Draft.


This year appears to be neither the time nor the place for the Heat.

In fact, a case could (and perhaps should) be made that the Heat already have taken care of the 2016 NBA Draft in advance of Thursday's selections at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

Heat 2015 second-round pick Josh Richardson? Now with a resume as strong as anyone who could be selected in Thursday's first round beyond the initial picks.

"That," ESPN draft analyst Chad Ford said, "was amazing scouting."

Thursday's NBA Draft all about the 'after party' for Heat

Heat late-season addition Briante Weber, who went undrafted out of Virginia Commonwealth last June? He stands with as much upside as any player expected to go in Thursday's second round.

"We loved him last year," said Ryan Blake, who scouts for the NBA's draft-consulting firm. "He was high on a lot of people's lists. Eighty to eight-five percent of the teams wanted to see him last year."


For Richardson, sliding a year ago was the result of Tennessee's uneven play. For Weber, it was a devastating knee injury that left him 11 steals shy of the NCAA Division I record.


Without a selection in either round of Thursday's NBA Draft, the Heat essentially expect to make the No. 61 pick their own.


Now both are under contract, already planning their Heat participation in the Orlando Pro Summer League starting July 2.

While the rest of the league has to deal with the guesswork of the draft, the Heat, even after dealing out of both rounds, already have two advance-purchase answers.

"Yeah, I think you could probably say that Josh and Briante could be those kinds of players for us," Riley said of Richardson emerging as a first-round talent and Weber likely of at least second-round value. "And it gives us a little bit more relief going into the draft."

While Riley embraced the opportunity to come away with Justise Winslow in last year's first round, his philosophy of team building long has been more centered around free agency, which opens July 1, and the trade market.

"Having a pick every other year is good," Riley said.

For Riley, it all is part of his personal personnel metric, a metric that has a place for Richardson and Weber, likely to minimize Heat inertia to trade into Thursday's draft.

"I've always believe," he said, "in five-five-five: Five talented or semi-talented veterans. And then your middle group of players. And you have guys on the edge that will serve you in the youth-development capacity or a veteran who can help you in timely moments. Yeah, I think we definitely have the youth covered."

Because of Richardson.

Potentially because of Weber.

As well as having Winslow under contract, a qualifying offer in place to Tyler Johnson, and a primary focus in free agency on Hassan Whiteside.

That doesn't mean that the Heat will be disinterested bystanders Thursday.

While the Heat do not have any cash to immediately buy a pick, with their complete NBA-maximum $3.4 million allotment for fiscal 2015-16 already spent, they can get another team to draft a player for them and then, when a new NBA spending allowance becomes available on July 1, obtain such a pre-determined player at that time. Another possibility is to put the Heat's 2022 second-round pick in play to obtain a second-round pick Thursday. The target for the Heat likely would be a rangy perimeter defender.

Otherwise, they'll move ahead by being the Heat, with this setting up as one of Riley "every other" years.

"The Heat have a couple things going for them," ESPN's Ford said. "One, they have an owner that's willing to spend. They're in a big market. They have a very desirable location. NBA free agents like to play in Miami. There's a draw there that allows them to draw elite free agents, and so some of that eschews away from using the draft as a building tool because they know that they can lure players there that are going to be elite players."

Or, in this case, they already have a pair of prospects who have filled their draft quota in advance.

"I actually think, interestingly, even though, the Heat don't value the draft as much as some other teams do," Ford said, "they have a really incredible scouting staff."
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((ReFleX)) said:
so do yall still want harrison barnes?:mjlol:.....fukk that dude. straight up garbage.
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There we some people among us salivating at the thought of Barnes being in a Heat uniform as Wade's replacement (i assumed the Wade part). Might have been @Primetime21 but i could be wrong
I never bought into the hype. He might be that good. Who knows. I havent watched enough GSW games to give an educated opinion of Barnes. :yeshrug:
 
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Intruder v3.0 said:
There we some people among us salivating at the thought of Barnes being in a Heat uniform as Wade's replacement (i assumed the Wade part). Might have been @Primetime21 but i could be wrong
I never bought into the hype. He might be that good. Who knows. I havent watched enough GSW games to give an educated opinion of Barnes. :yeshrug:
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:usure: now hold the hell up chief. At the beginning of the season I said I would target Barnes as an economic alternative to the pipe dream of Durant. And I never thought it was a Wade replacement just another piece on the roster :ufdup:

my original off-season plan when the season started was Ryan Anderson + Jeff Green but I think Anderson priced himself out of our pay range
 
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:usure: now hold the hell up chief. At the beginning of the season I said I would target Barnes as an economic alternative to the pipe dream of Durant. And I never thought it was a Wade replacement just another piece on the roster :ufdup:

my original off-season plan when the season started was Ryan Anderson + Jeff Green but I think Anderson priced himself out of our pay range
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Some are saying Barnes could get max money. That's why i was never on board since i had never heard of dude before this year and they were talking max
 
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On one hand I know what the team was thinking. 6'10 guy, stretches the floor, can handle the ball, facilitate. This cat is such a colossal waste of talent

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I could see it too but that was with the assumption that LeBron would be here. On top of that he got hurt. Im not mad at the signing at all to this day. But injuries happen and some players struggle to recover from injuries.
 
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