Key Points
- The Heat signed Tim Hardaway Jr. to a one-year, $6.5 million deal.
- The shooting guard joins a Miami roster built around Giannis Antetokounmpo.
- Hardaway shot a career-high 40.6% from three for Denver last season.
- His father, Tim Hardaway Sr., has his No. 10 retired by the Heat.
The Miami Heat have agreed to sign free-agent guard Tim Hardaway Jr. to a one-year, $6.5 million deal, ESPN's Shams Charania reported.
Hardaway is coming off a season in Denver in which he played all 80 games and averaged 13.5 points on a career-high 40.6% from three. In Miami, signed through part of the mid-level exception as the team's 12th man on a standard deal, he gives a roster remade around Giannis Antetokounmpo the floor-spacing a two-time MVP needs around him.
The move carries a Miami echo: Hardaway's father, Tim Hardaway Sr., ran the point for the Heat from 1996 to 2001 and has his No. 10 hanging in the rafters. The son arrives to do the one thing a Giannis team always needs — shoot — in an offseason of star movement that has already sent LeBron James out of Los Angeles, Kawhi Leonard toward Toronto, and LaMelo Ball to Minnesota.
Hardaway is not the only veteran shooter Miami brought in this offseason: Klay Thompson signed a two-year deal with the Heat in August after a buyout in Dallas.
Source: ESPN.
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