On Monday, a report indicated that Miami Heat was looking at a free agent Kai Jones, a big man who went in the first round of the NBA draft 2021.
Free agent F/C Kai Jones is working on the Miami Heat today, saying the department’s sources. The first player 2021 is still a young athlete. pic.twitter.com/srlm8s4kpt
– Chris Haynes (@chrisbhaynes) 11. August 2025
Jones has a tool to be an interesting project for a team that is ready to take the opportunity and the heat has certainly found diamonds in rough before, but Greg Sylvander, Team’s insider, lowered the reality examination of the situation.
“They don’t go any further for Kai Jones,” Sylvander wrote. “Yawn.”
Insider’s member Ethan J. Skolnick added that “only if they think they have another easy way to get out of it” would the temperature do it and refer to the luxury tax.
Jones has not yet stayed in one place for too long in his NBA career. After being composed in 2021, he spent two seasons with the Charlotte Hornets before he was dropped. He did not see any NBA actions in the 2023-24 campaign despite signing short-term contracts with a team. He saw operations in the period 2024-25 over Stints with Los Angeles Clippers and Dallas Mavericks.
His production at the NBA level has been limited, but he showed some exciting flashes with Mavs last season. In 12 games and six starts, he averaged 11.4 points, 6.6 rebounds and 1.3 assists per game while he fired an incredible 83.6 percent of the pitch.
Jones, who took 19th place in its entirety in his draft, won the sixth man of the year honor in Big 12 as another after an average of 8.8 points and 4.4 rebounds per game. He is now looking to tap back in some possibility that made him choice in the first round.
Unfortunately, there may be reasons to pump the brakes on the idea of heating his signature, but the fact that he and the team approved workout seems to indicate some interest. From the unpublished players to the former draft of choice in search of the revival of the career, Miami has an achievement for getting the most out of the players and making Jones a curious potential.
In one way or another, the heat is looking to bounce back in the coming season after they had an annoying campaign 2024-25 which ended with the problems of the finals.