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.
Source: ESPN.
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