Here are game-by-game predictions for the Miami Heat as the team is in East Group C along with other top teams.

The Heat opted to sign Smith instead of a backup center such as Kai Jones, who auditioned for Miami last week, or veteran center Trey Lyes, who also has been linked to the Heat. Miami isn't expected to add a backup center in free agency anytime soon, though it's conceivable that could be addressed with another trade.

On Friday, Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald revealed the package Miami offered the Suns for Durant, which may surprise Heat fans. Jackson reported the Heat offered Andrew Wiggins, Terry Rozier, Jaime Jaquez, Haywood Highsmith and the 20th overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft. This draft pick became Kasparas Jakucionis.

It's become such a punchline that the Miami Heat always 'run it back' that team president Pat Riley used the term 'R-I-B-itt' in his end-of-season press confere

The Heat continued to make changes to its roster on Friday, trading forward Haywood Highsmith and a 2032 second-round pick to the Brooklyn Nets for a protected 2026 second-round selection in a move that shed enough salary to bring Miami out of luxury-tax territory.

At any rate, Jaquez and Miami are looking to improve after finishing with a 37-45 record, which put them 10th in the Eastern Conference. Consequently, the Heat open the preseason in Puerto Rico, facing the Orlando Magic on Oct. 4, and also open the regular season against the same team on Oct. 22.

On Friday, though, the Heat solved this issue. Miami traded forward Haywood Highsmith and a 2032 second-round pick to the Brooklyn Nets for a protected 2026 second-round selection, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania. This move, while it may seem unwarranted to Heat fans, made sense to Miami’s front office.

In its continuing partial rollout of the 2025-26 schedule, the NBA on Wednesday announced its schedule for the 2025 NBA Cup, the third-annual installment of the league’s in-season tournament.

Former Missouri standout Dru Smith, who's overcome a slew of injuries in recent years, is reportedly being rewarded by the Miami Heat.

Bam Adebayo, the Miami Heat star, has fans talking about WNBA star A’ja Wilson through his Instagram Story outfit choice.

On Thursday afternoon, the NBA released the 2025-26 regular-season schedule that includes 80 (40 home and 40 away) of the 82 games for each team because two games from Dec. 9 to Dec. 15 remain up in the air until the group stage of the league’s in-season tournament plays out.