Miami Heat forward Duncan Robinson is one of the longest-tenured players on the team, as he’s spent the entirety of his seven-year playing career in the NBA to this point with the organization. However, his future with the Heat seems to be very much up in the air at this juncture, and a lot of the reason for that has to do with his contract.
Five Reasons Sports’ Greg Sylvander revealed that the Heat have an intriguing option regarding Robinson’s contract this offseason. First, Robinson has an early termination option in his deal that he could accept by June 29, but the expectation is that he won’t. Assuming Robinson doesn’t use his early termination option, the Heat will have to make a decision to either keep him in the fold and pay him around $20 next season or waive him and only pay him around half that amount.
“So Duncan can just terminate the contract by 6/29,” Sylvander wrote via Discord. “Which he probably won’t do. So then if he doesn’t terminate the deal, Miami then has to make a decision to keep him for $20M or waive him and only pay $10M. The thing I didn’t know was…they can resign him this offseason IF both parties wanted to remain.”
Robinson remains one of the premier 3-point shooters in the NBA, as he shot 39.3 percent from 3-point range on 6.5 attempted 3s per contest in the 2024-25 regular season. Still, he’s long been a one-trick pony in the sense that he doesn’t bring all that much else to the table on offense, so it’s debatable whether he’s worth coughing up nearly $20 million to next season.
Maybe a contract extension for Robinson from the Heat at a reduced annual salary would be the best course of action for the two sides, as even though Robinson might not be worthy of how much money he’s making now, he is still a valuable piece of Miami’s supporting cast and has been for a long time now.
Hopefully, Robinson will still be playing for the Heat at the start of the 2025-26 season and help Miami have a bounce-back campaign after a disappointing 2024-25 campaign. The Heat won just 37 of their 82 games during the regular season and traded forward Jimmy Butler to the Golden State Warriors midway through the campaign.
Plus, the Heat didn’t stand a chance against the Cleveland Cavaliers in the opening round of the 2025 NBA Playoffs, as they got swept and lost three of the four games by more than 20 points.
