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The Miami Heat weren't hopeless entering the 2025-26 NBA season, but their hopes were all tied to the future: future star pursuits, future prospect emergences, future splashes on the trade market. Multiple months into this campaign, things are pretty much still the same. They're still scanning the trade market for difference-makers, but the ones they want aren't available, and they don't want the ones that are.

How each Heat player finished in All-Star starter voting: Player Vote: Bam Adebayo - 36 Norman Powell - 20 Tyler Herro - 12 Jaime Jaquez Jr. - 8 Kel'el Ware - 7 Nikola Jovic - 6 Davion Mitchell - 5 Andrew Wiggins - 3 Simone Fontecchio - 1 Pelle Larsson - 1 Vladislav Goldin - 1 Dru Smith - 2 Keshad Johnson - 1 Jahmir Young - 1 Myron Gardner - 1 Kasparas Jakucionis - 0

"Myron is our energy. I don't know how to really describe Myron," Heat captain Bam said with a smile. "You just have to hang around him. He's the person that has this 'kid energy.' You know when kids that run around all day and you're always looking at them like, 'I wish I had that much energy.' He is that."

With less than a month before the February 5 NBA Trade Deadline, Rozier's expiring contract could emerge as a big asset for the Heat in trade discussions, especially as the Ja Morant whispers continue to grow. It's not a forgone conclusion that the Heat are going to trade Rozier before the trade deadline, but it's a pretty good bet that if Miami makes any type of move, it's almost certainly going to include the troubled guard.

The Miami Heat have lost four of the last five games and are currently in the midst of one of the most difficult stretches this season. And it isn't getting any easier. After three consecutive double-digit road losses to the Minnesota Timberwolves, Indiana Pacers and OKC Thunder, respectively- the Heat are back home. However, they face some tough matchups in these next few home games against some contending opponents, beginning with Devin Booker and the Phoenix Suns Tuesday night.

The Miami Heat just finished a three-game road trip, and now, they turn their attention to a three-game home stand. Coming home after a brutal stretch on the road is every sports team's dream. Not only do they want to leave their losses behind them, but going home for a few games in a row always seems to increase spirits in the locker room.

Sometimes change is good, but there are also moments in which change is necessary. The Miami Heat may have finally arrived at that point. At this stage, it does seem as if change would be both good and necessary for a Heat team that continues to struggle to find a real identity. Nothing seems to be clicking for Miami right now, and everything that seemed to be going "right" for them at the beginning of the season has gone by the wayside.

We want to get back out there, but we have to have a better version of ourselves in terms of mentality, passion, connectivity. All that stuff that's put us in position to win games this year. Every team goes through it. Look at what's going on (in) both conferences. Except for the handful of teams at the top, everybody else is trying to figure out the consistency. We're in that boat too. We're trying to figure it out.