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Miami Heat finalize moves with Victor Oladipo, Kevin Love


LAS VEGAS — With the NBA’s offseason personnel moratorium ending at noon Thursday, it basically set up as the league’s version of national signing day.

So Max Strus finalized his four-year, $63 million free-agency agreement with the Cleveland Cavaliers, and Gabe Vincent his three-year, $33 million deal with the Los Angeles Lakers, as both moved on from the Miami Heat.

Both of those agreements were reached at last week’s opening of the free-agency negotiation period.

For the Heat, though, there was limited pen to paper Thursday, as the team continued to play the waiting game on a potential trade for disgruntled Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard.

Because the Heat’s two free-agency additions signed for the league minimum, the Heat were able to sign Josh Richardson and Thomas Bryant during the moratorium.

That left Kevin Love’s two-year, $7.7 million agreement as the lone Heat free-agency contract in the league’s transaction queue, formally processed by midday Thursday. The contract with Love, 34, includes a player option for the second season.

Beyond Strus, Vincent and Love, Cody Zeller, the Heat’s only other veteran on the free-agent market, signed a one-year minimum deal with New Orleans Pelicans.



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