{"id":25811,"date":"2025-08-18T05:01:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/heat-gets-rid-of-highsmith-financial-move-and-flexibility-for-miami\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T05:01:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:01:48","slug":"heat-gets-rid-of-highsmith-financial-move-and-flexibility-for-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nba\/heat-gets-rid-of-highsmith-financial-move-and-flexibility-for-miami\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat gets rid of Highsmith: Financial move and flexibility for Miami."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Heat Makes Strategic Move: Highsmith to the Nets<\/h2>\n<p>In a move aimed at optimizing its financial situation and offering greater flexibility in its roster, the Miami Heat has finalized a trade involving forward Haywood Highsmith, who joins the ranks of the Brooklyn Nets.<\/p>\n<p>This strategic move allows the Heat to comply with the league&#8217;s fiscal regulations for next season, as well as generate two available spots on their roster.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the agreement, the Heat is giving up a second-round pick in the 2032 draft to Brooklyn, while receiving a conditional second-round pick in next year&#8217;s draft.<\/p>\n<p>Highsmith, who underwent knee surgery earlier this month to address a meniscus issue, was expected to be ready for the start of the regular season, with an estimated recovery time of eight to ten weeks.<\/p>\n<p>In the previous season, Highsmith, 28, averaged 6.5 points and 3.4 rebounds in 74 games with the Heat. Throughout his four seasons with the team, he averaged 5.5 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>Highsmith&#8217;s salary for next season is approximately $5.6 million. The Nets have the ability to absorb this contract in their available cap space, thus facilitating the trade without needing to send salary back to Miami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heat Makes Strategic Move: Highsmith to the Nets In a move aimed at optimizing its financial situation and offering greater flexibility in its roster, the Miami Heat has finalized a trade involving forward Haywood Highsmith, who joins the ranks of the Brooklyn Nets. This strategic move allows the Heat to comply with the league&#8217;s fiscal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4628,7331,1424,545],"class_list":{"0":"post-25811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-brooklyn-nets","9":"tag-haywood-highsmith","10":"tag-miami-heat","11":"tag-trade"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}