The Miami Heat were dealt some unfortunate injury news as the team’s best scorer, Tyler Herro, suffered a left ankle injury and is expected to miss the next eight weeks.
In a weak Eastern Conference, the Heat will now have to rely on Bam Adebayo and Andrew Wiggins to carry the load until Herro can return.
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While the team continues to decide whether or not they want to trade Wiggins — potentially to the Los Angeles Lakers — there’s reportedly one player the team is certain it wants to move off of.
Veteran guard Terry Rozier, who’s entering the final season of his four-year, $96.3 million deal, doesn’t appear to be a part of the team’s future plans. While they’ve tried to trade him, those efforts have been unsuccessful, and the Heat are reportedly “seriously considering” just cutting ties with him before the new season gets underway, per Brett Siegel of ClutchPoints.
“Before training camp begins at the end of the month, the Heat are seriously considering cutting ties with Rozier, sources said. However, with no trade market existing and the veteran guard informing the team he has no interest in a buyout, Miami’s only path to moving off Rozier would be waiving him and taking on his $26.6 million contract as dead money,” Siegel wrote.
“If the organization were to cut Rozier, it would open up more immediate minutes for Davion Mitchell, Dru Smith, and 2025 first-round pick Kasparus Jakucionis. Nonetheless, Rozier won’t be a primary piece of Spoelstra’s rotations should he be on their opening night roster.”
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Rozier, 31, is entering his 11th season in the NBA. He’s coming off a 2024-25 season in which he appeared in 64 games, averaging 10.6 points, 3.7 rebounds and 2.6 assists across 25.9 minutes per game.
Across his career, he’s averaging 13.9 points, 3.9 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game. He averaged at least 18 points per game every season from 2019-20 through 2023-24.
In addition to Rozier’s drop in performance, he’s currently “under federal investigation surrounding unusual betting patterns about his performance on the court,” per Siegel. “To this point, Rozier has not been cleared of any wrongdoing, which is another reason, besides his lackluster numbers, why he holds no market.”
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