Heat acquiring Norman Powell as part of three-team trade with Clippers and Jazz. The details
As part of a three-team trade with the Los Angeles Clippers and the Utah Jazz, the Heat is acquiring veteran guard Norman Powell from the Clippers, a league source confirmed to the Miami Herald on Monday. The Heat is sending veteran center Kevin Love and veteran forward Kyle Anderson to the Utah Jazz to acquire Powell.
The full trade has John Collins going from the Jazz to the Clippers, Powell going to the Heat, and Love, Anderson and a 2027 Clippers second-round pick going to the Jazz.
Powell, 32, brings a much-needed scoring punch to a Heat team that has finished with a bottom-10 offensive rating in each of the last three seasons. Powell also helps fill the three-point shooting void that Duncan Robinson leaves behind after Robinson committed to join the Detroit Pistons in free agency this offseason.
Powell produced All-Star caliber numbers last season, averaging 21.8 points, 3.2 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.2 steals per game while shooting 48.4 percent from the field and 41.8 percent on 7.1 three-point attempts per game for the Clippers this past regular season. he also averaged 16 points, 2.4 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 1.1 steals while shooting 47.2 percent from the field and 35 percent on threes in seven playoff games last season.
Powell is on an expiring $20.5 million salary for this upcoming season and will be an unrestricted free agent next offseason.
The Heat's roster was at the NBA's regular-season limit of 15 players on standard contracts for this upcoming season prior to Monday's trade, but is now back down to 14 players on standard deals after trading two players to acquire Powell: Bam Adebayo ($37.1 million), Tyler Herro ($31 million), Andrew Wiggins ($28.2 million), Terry Rozier ($24.9 million of $26.6 million salary currently guaranteed), Powell ($20.5 million), Davion Mitchell (estimated $11.5 million), Simone Fontecchio ($8.3 million), Haywood Highsmith ($5.6 million), Nikola Jovic ($4.4 million), Kel'el Ware ($4.4 million), Jaime Jaquez Jr. ($3.9 million), Kasparas Jakucionis ($3.7 million), Pelle Larsson ($978,000 of $2 million salary currently guaranteed) and Keshad Johnson ($2 million).
When including the full salaries for Rozier and Larsson but not including cap holds, the Heat now has about $189.2 million in salaries committed to 14 players for next season. That puts the Heat in luxury tax territory.
With the salary cap for the 2025-26 season set at $154.6 million and the luxury tax set at $187.9 million, the Heat is about $1.3 million above the luxury-tax threshold with one open spot on its standard roster for this upcoming season. After finishing as a luxury tax team in each of the last two seasons, the expectation is the Heat will try to find a way to get below the luxury tax threshold this upcoming season in order to avoid the onerous repeater tax that's triggered when a team crosses the luxury tax threshold in four straight seasons or four times during a five-season period.
The Heat has until the end of the upcoming regular season to dip below the tax, as luxury tax bills are determined based on a team's salary situation at the end of each regular season.
Another consequence of the trade: The Heat is now hard-capped at the first apron of $195.9 million since it took in more salary (Powell's $20.5 million salary) than it sent out ($13.4 million combined salary for Anderson and Love) in the trade.
When including the $2.5 million in 'unlikely to be earned incentives' (are added to calculate where teams are against the aprons) that raise Herro's cap number for this upcoming season to $33.5 million, the Heat has about $191.7 million in salaries committed to 14 players for next season. This has Miami about $4.2 million below the punitive first apron of $195.9 million that it can't cross until the end of this upcoming season following the trade for Powell.
While 15 players is the regular-season limit, NBA teams are allowed to carry up to 21 players during the offseason and preseason. NBA transactions are now able to become official after the league-wide moratorium was lifted Sunday at noon.
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