The Heat are actively shopping Terry Rozier's expiring $26.6 million contract while seeking frontcourt help. The roster is extremely guard-heavy and Rozier's salary complicates trade matching. Miami lacks the ability to attach a high-end pick or young player to make a deal attractive, which limits options. The recent trade sending Haywood Highsmith required a 2032 second-round pick to induce a taker, illustrating the cost of shedding contracts. League-wide cap space is tight and no team has a traded player exception large enough to absorb Rozier in full. Moving Rozier would likely reduce Miami's future financial flexibility and roster-building options.
While that makes sense, if their most recent trade has taught them anything, it's that they must attach a high-end pick or young player to his contract to make it happen. And that's something they absolutely cannot do. As Ethan J. Skolnick of Five Reasons Sports notes, the Heat are "actively shopping" Rozier's expiring contract in search of "just about anything, but specifically frontcourt help."
Well, Miami needed to fork over a 2032 second-round pick just for the Brooklyn Nets to take him. That transaction, while the most confusing of the offseason, informs this one: If it cost the Heat a distant second-rounder to get off an impact, albeit injured, wing on a team-friendly expiring contract, just imagine what it'll cost to wipe off the $26.6 million Rozier counts for in prospective trades.
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