The Miami Heat are reportedly weighing a run at Ja Morant, a move that New York Knicks fans rooting for Giannis Antetokounmpo to land in the Big Apple should be hoping their South Florida nemesis pulls off yesterday.
Not everything in the NBA is this connected. In this case, however, the Knicks will need a ton of help if they are going to emerge as winners of the inevitable Giannis sweepstakes.
Perhaps most importantly, they will need other teams to deliberately or incidentally remove themselves from the running. The Heat would be doing just that if they act on the “internal discussions” that Jake Fischer of The Stein Line reports they’ve held about Morant.