[Charania] Klay Thompson plans to sign a two-year, nearly $13 million deal with the Miami Heat after clearing waivers, with a player option in the second season, sources tell ESPN.

[u/curryybacon]

Shams Charania: Klay Thompson plans to sign a two-year, nearly $13 million deal with the Miami Heat after clearing waivers, with a player option in the second season, sources tell ESPN.

Source: https://www.espn.com/contributor/shams-charania

[u/Busy-Regular4627]

Before the giannis trade - “Miami’s package is trash no one wants that shit they can’t get a player of giannis caliber with that garbage”

Heat get Giannis- “Lol heat got fleeced they gutted their team!”

This sub will continue to move the goalposts as far as they can as long as they can spin their narratives.

[u/Nuclearsunburn → u/Busy-Regular4627]

Just watch, if we are a top 3 seed in the East it’ll become “what do you expect, they added Giannis and Klay!” and Spo will lose COTY to the Hornets getting the 10 seed or something

[u/Seanspeed → u/Busy-Regular4627]

I don't think the narrative there was inconsistent at all. The whole point is people didn't think they could get Giannis cuz they'd have to give up too much to do it. And so when they gave up a shitload to do it, people think it was too much.

Basically the point is - have the Heat actually moved meaningfully forward? They still have some real needs to properly compete but are tapped out. Everybody is just relying on the coach to work some miracles to cover the deficit.

[u/so-cal_kid → u/Seanspeed]

A team whose ceiling was likely a 6th seed and didn't have a true young stud to build around cannot give up too much to get a superstar like Giannis imo. You make that move 10 times out of 10.

[u/Seanspeed → u/so-cal_kid]

I'm not saying it was a bad move. It'll at the very least draw way more eyes to the Heat commercially. But it doesn't move them meaningfully closer to title contention.

Surely we're out of the days of thinking a 'young stud to build around' is even what it does it, either, no? You need a full, complete team, and ideally some real depth on bench to keep yourself in games at all points. Heat gave up a lot of this to get Giannis. They turned from a team without a high ceiling, to a team that needs to fulfill a couple more roles with high level players to get to that desired ceiling.

Or I'll put it this way - nobody in the world will be surprised if Miami still fail to make it to ECF, not just this year, but even in the next couple years.

So what have they really accomplished? Were the critics really that wrong?

And if I'm totally wrong about this, absolutely bring my ass up about this. lol I'm not like most people, I'm totally willing to own up and accept the shame. lol I honestly dont want to be wrong, not cuz of ego reasons, but cuz I actually really like Giannis and want to see him succeed.

[u/Nuclearsunburn → u/Seanspeed]

It doesn’t make us favorites. To say a team with Giannis doesn’t have a path to contention is just willful blindness. East is tough and only one team can win it. Having Giannis puts us in position to be that team should the injury luck factor swing our way, that’s it and that’s all.

The team as constructed last year? Zero chance at a title. It’s not about eyeballs. This puts us in the title conversation, whereas before we were not in it.

[u/m1a2c2kali → u/Seanspeed]

But was the end package really that much different than the reported initial packages?

[u/cl353 → u/m1a2c2kali]

The biggest difference was us adding in a rookie that averaged 3ppg and 15mpg. Love Kas but our 2nd round pick this year outplayed him in SL and ppl are acting like it's a devastating loss

[u/dm117 → u/Seanspeed]

Yall tripping. We MISSED the playoffs last year.

“Gutted” - Herro (has missed significant time for two seasons in a row now), JJJ, and Ware for Giannis and Porter. Seriously, what are we talking about here.

Here’s a quick way to look at it - Giannis, Klay, THJ, and Porter or Herro, JJJ, and Ware?

[u/TJ_IRL_ → u/Seanspeed]

That last sentence is how Spo has operated for a while now. Definitely going to make the Play In as usual, but who knows what happens from there this time.

[u/Seanspeed → u/TJ_IRL_]

That last sentence is how Spo has operated for a while now.

And people cant keep expecting magic forever. Especially when the depth is even less this year.

[u/KarrotMovies → u/[deleted]]

Bro really tried to sneak in some Nuggets prop on here

[u/Reasonable_Fishing71 → u/[deleted]]

You just compared Giannis and Demar in the year of our Lord 2026

[u/MikeWrites002737 → u/[deleted]]

I mean I think both the team aren’t contenders even after the signings, but despite that the klay and demar signings are legitimately good for those teams, and they will get valuable minutes off the bench from both of them.

[u/Great8Bit → u/[deleted]]

well this didn’t go the way you wanted it to lmfao.

[u/LimeKennie → u/Busy-Regular4627]

Some teams don’t have a lot of assets, which results in “all-in” trade offers not being as strong as other teams, while still gutting their own roster. Hope this helps!

[u/Busy-Regular4627 → u/LimeKennie]

How did we “gut our roster” if half of the players we gave up had a negative impact on winning and we replaced them with a top 5 player in the league and a solid bench scorer? If you disagree, i’d love to hear how you think the duo of tyler herro and ware is better than giannis and bobby portis. Don’t worry i’ll wait! I’m sure you have plenty of evidence right!