Heat add Nick Richards to camp roster, extend training-camp invites and tweak staff
Miami added a nonguaranteed deal for Nick Richards, is carrying 18 players under contract with room for three camp invitees, and made a pair of staff changes ahead of training camp.
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Nick Richards was added on a nonguaranteed contract.
The Heat are hard-capped and currently have 18 players under contract.
Miami can bring as many as 21 players to training camp and appears to be preserving spots for potential buyout-market moves.
Clemson forward Ian Schieffelin received a Heat training-camp invitation.
Former USC forward Ezra Ausar also accepted a training-camp invite.
The organization is treating those as likely uses of two of the three available camp spots.
Trevor Keels — who spent the final two months of last season on a two-way with the Heat — accepted a Washington Wizards training-camp invitation.
The Heat’s G League team traded Keels’ G League rights to the Wizards’ affiliate the day before he accepted the camp invite.
That suggests Keels will not be in Miami’s camp picture this fall.
Shooting coach Rob Fodor, a Heat staffer for about a decade, left to join Dusty May’s staff with the Dallas Mavericks.
Erik Spoelstra’s staff otherwise is expected to return and the Heat added former Bucks assistant Vin Baker to the staff.
The additions and departures reshape Miami’s player development and shooting-coach continuity ahead of the season.