Why Are the Heat Predicted to Trade Andrew Wiggins for Kyrie Irving?
Watch Wiggins on the wing. The mock wants Kyrie in that space. Dallas has said no all summer.
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Watch Wiggins close out on the wing and then have to make the next play with the ball. Giannis already bent the defense. Klay is the catch. The mock still wants one more handle in that space, and the name it keeps writing is Kyrie.
Somebody sent Wiggins and Davion Mitchell to Dallas for Irving and a first-round kid named De Larrea. That is a drawing on a website. The phones have not rung. The $347 million in the headline is what Irving has already been paid in his career, not a new Heat check.
Miami stacked stars and still looks short a late-clock creator. That is why the drawing exists. Wiggins is the wing they just welcomed back. He is also the salary and the size that fits on the other side of a Kyrie outgoing.
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Dallas has spent the summer saying no. A 34-year-old and a 19-year-old as the two best players in the same room is the whole tension. People who like this mock are betting that no gets quieter by February 11. Not tonight.
Klay signed last weekend on a first-year number that left Miami room for the last two roster spots. That is the flexibility the mock is trying to spend. Flexibility is not a trade.
So leave it where it is. The Heat already have Wiggins next to Giannis and Klay. Kyrie is still in Dallas. The floor is still Wiggins on the wing.
Sources
- Sai Mohan, Heavy.com, Aug. 23, 2026: Miami Heat Predicted to Trade for Kyrie Irving to Form Super Team — proposed mock: Heat receive Kyrie Irving and Sergio De Larrea; Mavericks receive Andrew Wiggins and Davion Mitchell. A proposal, not a reported agreement.
- Sporting News, reprinted on Yahoo Sports: Heat predicted to trade Andrew Wiggins for $347M NBA champion, 9x All-Star in monster deal — same mock; $347 million identified as Irving's career earnings. Yahoo reprint: same story
- Miami Herald, Barry Jackson, via Sporting News / Yahoo — Klay Thompson first-year salary $5.6 million; Heat left able to fill the 14th and 15th roster spots
- Marc Stein, The Stein Line, via Sporting News / Yahoo and Sports Illustrated — Mavs have swatted away Kyrie trade interest since mid-June; Feb. 11 deadline; Irving is 34, Cooper Flagg is 19
- AP / NBA.com — Giannis Antetokounmpo is already with the Heat. AP. NBA.com
- NBA.com player page, Sergio De Larrea — Mavericks-controlled guard. Dallas Morning News
- Miami Heat: HEAT SIGN ANDREW WIGGINS TO CONTRACT EXTENSION — official landscape photo
- Miami Heat: Coup’s Takeaways, Wiggins vs Charlotte — official in-game photo
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