Jerami Grant To Miami Heat Trade Rumors Picking Up Steam?
Last offseason the Miami Heat and Portland Trail Blazers were unable to complete a trade.
This time, things could be different.
The Heat are speculated to have interest in Trail Blazers forward Jerami Grant as the trade deadline approaches. SI.com's Rohan Nadkarni was the latest to chime in on the possibility of Grant joining Jimmy Butler, Bam Adebayo and Terry Rozier in Miami.
For it to happen, the Heat would have to part ways with Tyler Herro and Nikola Jovic.
Are Portland and Miami actually open to doing business? If so, the Heat should consider calling a few times a day about this deal," Nadkarni wrote Monday. Grant—who, it should be noted, has not asked to be moved—would give the Heat a cleaner fit in the starting lineup than Herro, as well as a boost in size needed to face some of their conference rivals."
If a deal is made, it would go the complete as things last summer when the Heat were coveting then-Blazers guard Damian Lillard. The Blazers reportedly weren't interested in Herro because of their young crop of guards.
Maybe things have changed since?
"Do the Blazers value Herro at all, though? He wasn’t coveted during the Damian Lillard talks," Nadkarni wrote. "But Herro is still a young, effective scorer who has excelled on good teams for basically his entire career. He could reclaim his sixth-man role in Portland or pick up starts as Scoot Henderson rounds into form. At worst, he’s another trade chip for the future. Jović could also start to realize some of his potential if he finally gets some consistent playing time."
Shandel Richardson covers the Miami Heat for Inside The Heat, a Fan Nation channel for Sports Illustrated. He has covered the NBA since 2010.
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