{"id":511075,"date":"2026-08-22T08:10:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T06:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=511075"},"modified":"2026-08-22T08:10:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T06:10:50","slug":"klay-thompson-to-sign-two-year-deal-with-miami-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/klay-thompson-to-sign-two-year-deal-with-miami-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Klay Thompson to sign two-year deal with Miami Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1415\" data-end=\"1630\">Klay Thompson plans to sign a two-year, nearly $13 million contract with the Miami Heat after clearing waivers following his buyout with the Dallas Mavericks. The deal includes a player option for the second season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1632\" data-end=\"1886\">The 36-year-old reportedly requested his release from Dallas to compete for a championship, walking away from the final year of his $17.5 million contract. Thompson averaged 12.9 points while shooting 38.7% from three over two seasons with the Mavericks.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1888\" data-end=\"2073\">Fourth on the NBA\u2019s all-time three-pointers list with 2,899, Thompson will add shooting and championship experience to a Miami roster built around Giannis Antetokounmpo and Bam Adebayo.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2075\" data-end=\"2390\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Klay working out in Miami immediately after signing with the Heat \ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BBallAnalytics?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BBallAnalytics<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wTgRN7m0l8\">pic.twitter.com\/wTgRN7m0l8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LegionHoops\/status\/2090977767651475905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 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>The four-time NBA champion has chosen Miami after his Mavericks buyout, agreeing to a deal worth nearly $13 million<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372525,"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":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-511075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Miami-Heay.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511075","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511075"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=511075"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=511075"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=511075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}