The Miami Heat have spent the 2025 offseason patiently waiting for the opportunity to make a big splash. Miami has ensured that its promising talent will return, but after going 37-45 in 2024-25, the need for improvement was clear.
Thankfully, just when it seemed as though the well was running dry on the open market, the Heat made a surprisingly low-cost trade for Norman Powell.
Miami was preparing to enter the 2025-26 season with All-Star Tyler Herro and breakout performer Davion Mitchell anchoring an otherwise unpredictable perimeter. Talent exists at multiple positions, but the Heat had a dire need for a two-way wing who can reliably put points on the board.
Miami found exactly that with a shocking three-team trade that will bring Powell to South Beach at the cost of Kyle Anderson and Kevin Love.
BREAKING: The Clippers, Jazz and Heat have agreed to a trade that sends Norman Powell to Miami, John Collins to Los Angeles, and Kevin Love, Kyle Anderson and a 2027 Clippers second-round pick to the Jazz, sources tell ESPN. pic.twitter.com/o0FkV0o2l8
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) July 7, 2025
Powell, the prototypical culture fit, will have an opportunity make an instant impact as either the sixth man or a starter in 2025-26.
Heat land the two-way scoring guard they needed in Norman Powell