{"id":510442,"date":"2026-08-17T21:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T19:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=510442"},"modified":"2026-08-17T21:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T19:18:08","slug":"miami-heat-strongly-interested-in-klay-thompson-want-him-as-a-free-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/miami-heat-strongly-interested-in-klay-thompson-want-him-as-a-free-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Heat strongly interested in Klay Thompson, want him as a free agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Miami Heat are strongly interested in Klay Thompson. According to Marc Stein, Miami is eager to bring the five-time All-Star to South Beach but would prefer to sign him as a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>The Dallas Mavericks, meanwhile, have not changed their stance and would prefer to trade Thompson. \u201cMiami is desperate for Klay Thompson but they want to sign him as a free agent. They would not be the only team interested,\u201d Stein reported.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson&#8217;s future therefore remains uncertain, with Miami potentially emerging as one of the leading contenders if the veteran becomes available on the free-agent market.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Miami Heat are DESPERATE for Klay Thompson, per <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheSteinLine?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheSteinLine<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo this point the Mavs position has not changed. They would prefer to trade him (Klay Thompson). \u2014 All we know is, Miami is desperate for Klay Thompson but they want to sign him as a free agent. They would not\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tBVI9LI9Uo\">https:\/\/t.co\/tBVI9LI9Uo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CrnYbqBD4e\">pic.twitter.com\/CrnYbqBD4e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Heat Central (@TheHeatCentral) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheHeatCentral\/status\/2089405249089929488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami is reportedly eager to land the Dallas Mavericks guard, but the Heat want to sign him without giving up assets in a trade<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":372524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[175],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-510442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Miami-Heay.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510442"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=510442"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=510442"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=510442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}