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Miami Heats re-signs Tyler Herro for a deal worth $130million.
Three times NBA side Miami Heat struggled last year to find any consistency and finished as the sixth seed, hence would be looking to make a bigger impact this year.
Heat selected Herro in the 2019 NBA Draft as 13th overall pick in the first round, On October 23, Tyler made his debut by finishing up with 14 points in his first game with their victory over the Memphis side. The Miami side have agreed to a four year contract with their reserve guard Tyler Herro for a prize money worth $130 million.
Out of the total money $10 million would be paid of as incentives, the deal was earlier confirmed by CBS Sports’ NBA insider Bill Reiter, however was officially confirmed by the Miami team on their twitter account later.
The reigning Sixth Man Of The Year award winner also came up with a interesting reply of sealing this huge money deal.
Herro previously mentioned in an exit interview “I would like to start, it’s my fourth year (next season), so I thik I have earned it, we will se what happens.”
Pat Riley, president of the Miami side said in a media conference after the season “The next step for him — and I think we’re seeing this in the league — if you want to win a championship and you wanna be a starter, you really have to become a two-way player today,”
Furthermore he continued ” “You have to improve in certain areas of your game. … I saw improvement in his defense this year. He’s got great feet, he’s got quick feet. He just needs to get stronger, again. Add another 10 pounds of muscle mass. He just needs to get stronger from a leverage standpoint.”
Heat with this deal officially stated that they are looking for a long term goal with the American professional.
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