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Just for comparison purposes, the 2025-26 team:<\/p>\n\n\n\n In July the Heat traded Herro, Jaquez, Ware, Jaku\u010dionis, the No. 13 pick (Nate Ament), unprotected 2031 and 2033 firsts, a 2030 pick swap and a 2033 second-rounder for Giannis Antetokounmpo and Bobby Portis. Powell left for the Bulls because the Heat couldn\u2019t fit him under the first apron. They filled in around the stars with Klay Thompson and Tim Hardaway Jr. (splitting about $11.7M of the mid-level exception), Nick Richards, and extensions for Wiggins and Larsson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The map has two big shifts compared with last year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Spoelstra\u2019s staff, Riley\u2019s front office and the star-hunting doctrine are all green now. The Heat had missed on Mitchell, Durant and Lillard before landing Giannis. The player-development pipeline is still green, but it paid for the trade, since Herro, Jaquez, Ware and Jaku\u010dionis were all developed in-house and then traded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the binding constraint. The three firsts and the pick swap are gone, so the trade assets that were the \u201cgenesis\u201d unknown last year are spent. The apron limits what the Heat can add, as Powell\u2019s exit shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Official 2026-27 lines:<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-6-932x1024.png\")
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