The Miami Heat have not shown interest in trading for Indiana Pacers shooting guard Buddy Hield, according to NBA insiders Anthony Chiang and Barry Jackson of The Miami Herald.
After contract extension negotiations stalled out, Hield and the Pacers started dialogue to work on finding a potential trade with another team, according to NBA insider Shams Charania of The Athletic.
Hield is open to getting traded, but no deal is imminent and there aren’t any current substantive talks with any other team. The Pacers offered Hield an extension in recent weeks, but it’s believed their proposal did not make the veteran feel desired.
Hield is one of the best shooters of all time. He was second in the NBA last season in 3-point field goals (288) and shot 42.5% from beyond the arc. The 30-year-old Oklahoma product is a career 40.2% shooter from 3-point land, which is good for 39th in NBA history.
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Hield has career NBA averages of 16.1 points, 4.4 rebounds and 2.6 assists. He put up 16.8 points per game last season in 80 games for the Pacers.
Multiple teams are expected to express interest in a possible trade for Hield and those conversations are expected to increase as NBA training camps open up over the next two weeks. However, it doesn’t sound like the Heat are going to enter the Hield sweepstakes.
Miami is still recovering from missing out on Damian Lillard, who got traded to the Milwaukee Bucks. The Heat felt they never had a legitimate opportunity to negotiate a Lillard trade with the Portland Trail Blazers, according to NBA insider Chris Haynes of Bleacher Report.
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The Heat, who lost to the Denver Nuggets in the 2023 NBA Finals in five games, will try to trade for Jrue Holiday, who was sent to the Blazers by the Bucks in the Lillard deal. It will be fascinating to see if Portland even takes any calls from Miami again after the whole Lillard fiasco.
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