Why the Miami Heat Were Quiet on NBA Trade Deadline Day | Miami Heat Podcast

Why the Miami Heat Were Quiet on NBA Trade Deadline Day | Miami Heat Podcast

As expected the heat stood Pat at the NBA trade deadline either unable or unwilling to find a player that might significantly improve their chances at a title this season but with a flurry of moves around the Eastern Conference was that the right decision we break down

What trades took place and if Miami is taking a big risk by not getting anything done at the NBA trade deadline on a special live episode of Locked on heat you are locked on heat your daily Miami Heat podcast part of the locked on podcast Network your team Every day all right welcome to locked on heat your daily podcast on the Miami Heat I’m West Goldberg editor at allou can heat.com joining me as always it’s longtime NBA reporter David however you’re tuning in YouTube Odyssey or your favorite podcast app or if you’re joining us live after the trade deadline

Thanks so much for making lock on heat your first listen every day well it is 38 PM Eastern Time David right after the 3M trade deadline the Miami Heat a quiet day for them does not appear that they have made a move we talked about so many different options going into today but

You and I I don’t think we if we had to bet on it I don’t think we would have bet on a move being made uh but but your your takeaway from Miami not making a move today I can see why some fans are a little disappointed but I think it was

Also you have to temper those expectations and be a little more realistic you weren’t going to get a significant upgrade over Tyler you weren’t going to get a significant upgrade over Caleb Martin and anything else would have been acquiring a small role player that probably wouldn’t have garnered a significant amount of playing

Time in Eric spoler rotation and so if you look at it from that perspective what’s the point like they could have made a move that would have been either viewed as a lateral move at best or maybe even a downgrade at worst and that’s much more realistic that options

So to me I I’m not surprised by it I think their team has as good a chance of any and I’ve said this before and I’ll say this again I’ve said this for years now this team is only measured by what they accomplished in the postseason and

Yes the road there is going to be ugly it’s not going to be comfortable it’s not g to be fun but they can get to the postseason and they can make noise despite what moves Milwaukee made despite whatever the Knicks and the and the the Celtics have done Miami is still

A dangerous team in the Eastern Conference they might not be good enough to win a title but at the very least they are good enough to advance deep into the playoffs they might not make it and I think that’s also a realistic possibility but you have to take that

Into consideration is that you can’t just trade away Tyler’s $25 million salary and expect to get a superstar that’s not GNA happen and I think Miami probably was prudent maybe a little too safe for my liking but they were also prudent and saying you know what when during the offseason depending on what

This team can do in the in the postseason that’s when will reassess and major moves will be made during the summer I know that’s not something that Heat fans want to hear no it’s you’re right yeah you’re right no major moves that that stuff was always do for the

Summer and by the way let’s not pretend that the Heat have not made a major move already they traded Kyle lry and a first round pick for Terry Rosier that qualifies on this season based on this trade deadline that qualifies as a major inseason trade right it is the biggest

In season trade the he have made since basically I would say the gor drage trade if want to argue the Andre guadala Jay Crowder kind of super multiplayer deal maybe that one is in there too obviously that one helped them get to the finals but in terms of just a

Singular player that he’ have not traded for a player like Rosier in quite a long time in the middle of a season so they already made their major move I do understand the want for maybe some minor moves on the fringes you look at what the Celtics did getting a guy like

Xavier Tilman for a couple of second round picks and you do wonder why Miami couldn’t do something like that now what the reason reason is because Miami basically has one and a half second round picks that they could trade they have an unprotected 2026 pick coming over from the Lakers via Cleveland that

They have that’s really their only pick that doesn’t come with protections they have a couple other ones that are conditional they have one conditional pick I think the 2024 second round pick is conditional uh protected or it only conveys if it falls between 31 and 50 something 55 chances are that that one

Would convey but it’s still conditional so it’s there there’s weird picks they don’t really have and that’s sort of my point here they don’t have all the stuff that these other teams have to trade to make those minor moves it’s kind of big swing or bust for Miami when you

Consider the assets that they have they’re not willing to trade those assets for lesser assets because they don’t want to take a downgrade right they’re not going to trade for instance Caleb Martin for a bundle of second round picks that they can use later on this year next year or the year after

That they’re not interested in downgrading the roster right now because they’re most interested in trying to maximize this Championship window and probably this one last year so they’re kind of going all in for this season and then like you said they’ll re evaluate in the summer I I don’t know that you

Can evaluate the trade deadline based on well you couldn’t get anybody that was going to factor into the rotation I I push back on that logic a little bit I think there’s something to be said about going and getting a guy who might not be in your night toight rotation but could

Be useful Off the Bench when you have basically already decided that Thomas Bryant ain’t it if you’re the Miami Heat I you you’ve signaled that as much he’s out of the rotation as been out of the rotation from basically the second week of the Season he hasn’t played a whole

Lot regularly um Josh Richardson is fine as as sort of this replacement pseudo ball handler but I think with Drew Smith being hurt for the rest of the season they could have went out and used sort of a break glass in case of emergency point guard they didn’t they didn’t to

Go out and make those some big Landmark point they already got it they got Rosier but I think they could have used depth there depending on what happens with Haywood heith and the car accident that he was involved in and all the any sort of legal ramifications that may

Come out of that or not there was no police report uh file on that yet we don’t really know what the what the outcome of all this is going to be or what the consequences might be but maybe they could have used another forward now

I do want to get to some buyout options that remains an option I think an important one for Miami and I would actually be well we’ll get to the buyout stuff later on I think it’s an important thing for us to cover but you know there’s a difference when you’re looking

At the Eastern Conference and you see Milwaukee Boston Philadelphia New York I mean New York’s making major moves but all these other like hey they’re not man they’re just like hey Xavier Tillman just in case and he don’t really have any just in case guys unless they just

Maybe they just maybe it’s just that they trust their own guys that’s exactly what it is they put such a heavy premium on players that they’ve seen put in the work inhouse not what we’ve heard not even what we’ve seen around the league or anything like that you come in here

And you do the work you’ll earn a spot in their rotation if you had said at the beginning of the Season you can have either Thomas Bryant as your Center or Xavier Tillman who’s kind of undersized and not I would have picked Xavier Tillman yeah maybe maybe but I don’t

Think it would have been now we’re seeing Boston acquire Xavier Tillman and there’s all this oh why didn’t the heat you know throw in a couple of second rounders or trade Nico yovic for Xavier Tillman and it’s like I you know I think nobody of the right mind is saying they

Should have traded yic for tman you be surprised but I think phom is yeah pH the trade deadline craziness out of all of us you know but your point David like Boston has a bunch of second round picks that they could just throw out a Xavier Tillman if Miami were to

Use their two second round picks and again it’s sort of like one and a half second round picks that’s okay now you have no second round picks you went all in quote unquote on zavier Tillman and so that’s Miami’s mindset is if we’re gonna make a trade it’s gonna be a big

Swing and we don’t really think that there’s a big difference between your role players and our role players who we could develop in-house for free and yes honestly I’m fine with that mentality I’m not sitting here it’s worked it’s worked they find the role players who fit their scheme what does Miami always

Tell you you talk to AIC exposer you talk to the front office people you talk to even play some of the players in the locker room we have a specific kind of player who works here and then we find and we develop them and we turn them

Into role players and it’s very sort of like Daryl moresque also where darald Mor is like hey if it’s not a superstar I’m really not all that interested in trading a bunch of stuff for him he thinks role players are are replaceable and I and I think the Heats

They they’re like it’s not so much saying role players are replaceable but it’s we can make our own we have the role players at home we can kind of fashion these guys from nothing into something we don’t need to go out and spend assets on other role players and

So I think that’s fine let’s talk about Caleb Martin really quick uh I think he was sort of the big one uh that if they were going to move sort of a major piece that might have been the piece to move $6.8 million this year player oper for

7.1 next year expected to opt out of that contract he might be and because of that more than likely going to have to walk away in free agency to find that long-term lucrative deal that he wants uh you and I talked a lot about Caleb

Martin and what it would take to pry him away from Miami ultimately the heat decided hey this is our starting power forward now we’re g to keep this guy uh there were other teams contenders I know the Sacramento Kings you and I have talked a lot about Sacramento then it

Got more widely reported uh today and yesterday that the kings were interested in Caleb Martin kind of backing up what you and I have been saying for a couple of weeks now on here ultimately that didn’t happen uh your thoughts on Kale Martin stay put I’m happy with it you

Know I same my expectations are that he’ll find a way to contribute just as he did he’s been rounding into form he was injured for most of the start of the Season he’s looked so much better of late and he’s going to provide a spark is it going to be an ultimate ceiling

Razor probably not but it helps Miami maintain the status quo which has been higher than anybody else’s in the Eastern Conference for the last four years and that’s the reality is that you’re not looking to look Caleb to be a 20 point per game score during the

Regular season because you don’t give a damn about the 82 game regular season it’s what happens in April when you’re going against the bucks or the Celtics or the Sixers or whomever you might face there it’s those opportunities that Caleb has found a way to shine during

That makes him a special player and again it kind of reinforces the same thing we know what we’re getting in Caleb Martin this is from the front office’s perspective we’ve worked him we’ve developed him he’s provided that spark we know when he’s not playing well it’s because yeah it’s because of injury

Or something else he’s proven he’s our guy you know we’re not for everybody but he is for us and that’s why we want it unless you’re G to trade somehow a $6.8 million player in Caleb Martin for a star level player that’s going to raise your cealing there’s no need to make

That move because you’re just get it’s gonna be a lateral move or a downgrade more than likely a downgrade like who in the $6.8 million raise uh range is going to help Miami’s chances of winning the next you know 20 out of 30 games more than Caleb nobody that got traded

Today and and so yeah that was sort of the calculus Miami Miami had to make it’s even if we take a downgrade is it worth it to us to take that downgrade now for a player who might be under contract longer it could be part of our rotation next year ultimately the Heat

Have decided we like Caleb Martin we want to keep Caleb Martin and if he walks away no problems look they lost Max stru and Gabe Vincent for nothing that wasn’t an L because that was your starting back courtt for a finals run that’s a w that’s a w buddy and so if

Caleb Martin is a major player for you in a playoff push or if you think he can be then he has more value to you now even if he does walk away for nothing I think fans kind of think too much and even I I don’t even mean to blame fans I

Think NBA media like dorky salary cap NBA Twitter they’re like oh why would you like let him go away for nothing I don’t because he’s good right now and we still have some games to play that’s why right and that’s what Miami came down to they’re looking at it from a ledger

Perspective it has to balance on both sides you want to end up in the black as opposed to the red and that’s how they see these transactions but there not that’s not how it is it’s not in a vacuum in a financial sense it’s a it’s a actual Personnel level of play right

Now trying to win games right now he helps us win games right now and nothing that we can trade him for is going to help us win games as much as Caleb Martin happy that he’s sticking around uh the heat of one4 of the last five

Games kale Martin has been a big part of that

The Miami Heat were quiet on NBA trade deadline day. Wes Goldberg and David Ramil break down why they didn’t make a move, Caleb Martin sticking around and what happens next.

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