The Miami Heat haven’t been able to make a splash move on the NBA trade market over the course of the offseason. Vying for the services of Kevin Durant, like most other teams in the league, it has since been determined that he and the Brooklyn Nets will try to work their relationship out.
However and after the exodus of P.J. Tucker to Philadelphia, the Miami Heat are still in need of a starting power forward.
Well, perhaps but at the very least, they’ll need to add more depth if they plan to try the guys that they already have at the spot.
With the potential acquisition of a Durant though, not only would that have meant reshuffling the deck, thus leaving them to plug holes around the core that was left, but Durant could have also slotted in as the four-man. Again, that reality doesn’t actually exist though.
Back to the guys that they have already though, that seems like the route they will go at the moment.
Miami Heat: Darius Days Could Be In Line For A Massive Opportunity
Well, that’s hopefully, at least, until further potential deals and targets shake out in the early parts of the year leading to the trade deadline.
When it comes to those guys though and though a few have and can make cases to be a major part of whatever is done with the spot, one guy has a bit of extra intrigue to him.
A guy signed to a two-way deal by the Miami Heat this summer sight unseen, sort of, Darius Days impressed as a member of the San Antonio Spurs’ summer squad.
Not having played a single minute of action for the Miami Heat, he was signed to a two-way deal anyway by the South Florida franchise.
And upon viewing his highlights and collective bodies of work up until this point, it doesn’t seem like a brash or premature move. Days, a guy that likens himself to none other than P.J. Tucker, has the goods, at least offensively.
Miami Heat: Darius Days Has The Offense, But Can The Rest Translate?
He is a perfect mold for this league’s version of the power forward, standing 6’7 and more gangly than stocky. The Gainesville, Florida native also has the perfect game, with a mix of abilities that allows him to be extremely effective from all three levels of the floor on the offensive side.
Though you don’t know, exactly, the only question should be if he can hold his own defensively early on.
He is a decent athlete, at the very least, and seems to be as mobile in other facets of the game as he is offensively, so that should allow him to, at least, hotly compete on the defensive side of the ball.
What does it all mean though?
Well, until of if the Miami Heat bring in a surefire option to start or consume most of the power forward minutes in their lineup, then Darius Days should have a shot to get a massive opportunity early on in the season.
And if he can, somehow, translate his game from college and summer ball to the big leagues—the Miami Heat’s power forward problems aren’t as big as they might seem right now.