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Do The Miami Heat Have A Chance At Kyrie Irving?

The Brooklyn Nets guard has requested a trade before the deadline

Shandel Richardson

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Miami Heat team president Pat Riley likes to use the term "whale" when chasing big-time players. 

One just became available when it was reported Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving is requesting a trade before the deadline. According to Shams Charania of The Athletic, Irving will become a free agent this offseason if he isn't trade. 

This could be an opportunity for Riley and the Heat to make up for a quiet offseason. They made attempts to acquire Irving, Kevin Durant and Donovan Mitchell last summer but were unable to produce a package to land any of them. 

Irving is a potential piece to put the Heat back among the contenders in the Eastern Conference. The question is: Do they have enough assets to acquire him? 

The Heat have already said they have no plans of involving center Bam Adebayo in any trade. Jimmy Butler is also off the table. That leaves Kyle Lowry, Duncan Robinson, Victor Oladipo and even rookie Nikola Jovic as their best trade assets. 

Not sure if the Heat can make it happen but this is Riley's chance to show he is still a big player in the free agency/trade world. 

Stay tuned ... 

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SHANDEL RICHARDSON

Shandel has covered the NBA since 2010, with previous stops at The Athletic and South Florida Sun-Sentinel.  He has covered six NBA Finals, one Super Bowl, the NCAA basketball tournament. He has also been a beat writer for the Miami Hurricanes and contributed on every major beat in South Florida since 2003, including the Miami Dolphins and Miami Marlins. He can also be read in the Sportsbook Review for gambling coverage from around the NBA. A native of Bloomington, Illinois, Shandel attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He's also worked for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Kansas City Star.  TWITTER: @ShandelRich EMAIL: shandelrich@gmail.com You can subscribe to our YouTube channel here Follow all of our Miami Heat coverage on Facebook here

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