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– Miami HEAT February 9, 2022

The Heat and Thunder also agreed to amend the protections of the Miami’s first-round pick that it owed to Oklahoma City in 2023, pushing it back to a 2025 first-round protected pick, the team also announced via press release.

Originally, if its 2023 pick didn’t convey, it would roll over to a lottery-protected pick in 2024, a lottery-protected pick in 2025 to an unprotected first-round pick in 2026.

Now, the Heat have freed up ability to deal its 2023 first-round pick outright in any trade before Thursday – or during the offseason – if it chooses to.

Heat and Thunder have agreed to amend the terms of the first-round pick Miami owes OKC in a way that gives the Heat more flexibility to trade picks now – details in release.

The Heat acquired Okpala – the No. 32 overall pick in 2019 – on draft night in a three-team deal in exchange for not one, not two, but three second-round picks.

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