The Miami Heat didn’t acquire anyone during the 2021-22 NBA Trade Deadline. Their only acquisition featured sending third-year forward KZ Okpala to the Oklahoma City Thunder for a 2026 second-round pick, which also included the Thunder amending protections on a separate first-round pick Miami owed the Thunder in 2023, pushing the protections back to 2025.
The aforementioned protection delay subsequently freed Miami’s 2022 and 2023 first-round picks for any potential trade before the deadline or this upcoming offseason, if it opted to go in either of those two routes.
Well, the former of those two options is now out the window.