After last season’s trade deadline, Pat Riley said that although Danilo Gallinari would have fit in well with the Miami Heat, “somewhere you have to sort of draw a line in the sand for your team.” At that time, Oklahoma City was rumored to want Miami to remove lottery protections from their 2023 first-round pick, which the Thunder own, as well as to trade the Heat’s 2025 first-round pick.
Fast forward to this season’s trade deadline. The Miami Herald’s Barry Jackson reported that Riley ‘is a big advocate of pursuing Lowry, according to a source in touch with the organization.