The Heat brought Mychal Mulder back because of the positive impression he made during his first stint with the organization, writes Anthony Chiang of The Miami Herald. Mulder signed a two-way contract on Thursday, taking the place of Kyle Guy. Because the deal covers two years, Mulder will be able to play for Miami during Summer League and take part in the team’s offseason program.
Mulder signed his first NBA contract with the Heat in 2019 after going undrafted out of Kentucky. He spent training camp with the team on an Exhibit 10 deal and played in two preseason games before being waived prior to the start of the season. He went on to play 67 games for the Warriors over two years and appeared 15 games with the Magic earlier this season.
“We were excited to have him back in our program. … We’re excited about having an opportunity to work with him this offseason and really continue to develop him,” coach Erik Spoelstra said. “In a perfect world, we would’ve been able to do that for the last two seasons, but we also like that he was able to go develop in a couple other places.”
There’s more from Miami:
- The recent return of Markieff Morris and Victor Oladipo has shaken up the rotation, but that’s normal in the NBA, P.J. Tucker tells Chiang in the same story. Several players who were seeing significant minutes earlier in the season are now stuck on the bench. “Every day is different, whether somebody is in or out,” Tucker said. “Look at Gabe [Vincent]. He’s going from starting and getting 20 [points] in a couple games in a row to Kyle [Lowry] coming back and literally not stepping in the game. Then the next game starting again. You don’t know. But you have to be ready. It’s a part of your job. It’s a part of being a professional basketball player.”
- The Heat are downplaying a sideline scuffle (video link) between Jimmy Butler and Udonis Haslem that took place during Wednesday’s game, tweets Mark Haynes of ClutchPoints. Although the two players nearly came to blows during a time out, Bam Adebayo said it’s not out of character for the team. “This is us in practice,” he said. “… In practice, we get like that to that point where like it looks like we want to fight each other when we get that mad, but it’s just the competitive nature that we have on this team.”
- Spoelstra is absent from tonight’s game because of a medical procedure involving his son, tweets Barry Jackson of The Miami Herald. Assistant coach Chris Quinn is running the team.
What’s different since the Heat went in to Phoenix and blew the Suns out? Omer Yurtseven is not playing anymore, Why? Double double every night, an incredible rebounder, and a rookie with huge potential so Spo decides to reward him by never playing him.
It’s that same old thing that Riley tended to do with not playing the young guys over the vets. Anyone can see who the backup Center behind Bam should be. But they want their vet in Dedmon in there, no matter how many nights he’s erratic in performance…particularly with those Dedmon butter fingers.
MIA are running away from the #1 to avoid BRK, can’t blame them, no one will wanna play the best team in the EC entering the playoffs as #7-8 after the play in!
Heat ran out of gas…Need Herro to score, need Production from Robinson, Lowry can’t be passive, they need him to score….
Heat problems may be that they are getting worn down by teams due to the Heat’s lack of effective size (other than Bam and Yurtzven). Bam can’t do it by himself. Yurztven is not getting playing time that he should be getting. Dedmon comes in and is sloppy. Morris isn’t the type of size they need to offset this.
Exactly they are getting out rebounded and losing in the paint. Bucks will eat them up with their size. I had hoped they’d play Big Yurt with Van at the 4 but not sure if Van
Ms offensive game can hold up. They tried it but Yurt got 2 quick fouls and now he’s gone the way of KZ Okpala.
In the Bubble, they were perfect until they faced the Lakers… SiZE, AD, Dwight… Last yr they got destroyed in 1st round by Bucks…. It does not appear Omar is going to be in playoff rotation unless foul trouble or injury… The Heat need to be perfect to win… Herro, Robinson, Strus all have to be on, Bam needs yo be aggressive and go to Rim, Lowry needs to score, can’t be passive… size still an issue…