Five reasons the Heat won't contend

Winning Giannis, losing the trade

Jun 23, 2026

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A reader just sent me a TrueHoop article from three years ago. Hindsight is 20/20, but hell yeah the Bucks should have started the rebuild three years ago. But as we’ll discuss soon, it’s the Bucks who won the Giannis trade. Here are five reasons the Heat won’t make a deep playoff run with Giannis.

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