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Category Details Player Kyrie Irving Current Team Dallas Mavericks Rumored Team Miami Heat Contract Status 3 years, $118.5 million through 2026-27, with a player option for 2027-28 Salary Cap Hit $39,491,282 (2026-27) Trade Likelihood Not specified in brief; framed as speculative and tied to Dallas’s start to the season Latest Insider Update Marc Stein reports Dallas has resisted offers; Sean Jordan names Andrew Wiggins and Nikola Jovic as the likely Heat package Potential Return Andrew Wiggins, Nikola Jovic Marc Stein has been writing about this since mid-June, and the core tension hasn’t changed: Dallas keeps saying no, but nobody around the league is convinced that holds if the Mavericks struggle early. The February 11 trade deadline is the pressure point everyone’s watching. 11 gradually approaches. The primary factor fueling that curiosity, of course, is that fact that Irving is 34 and Mavericks star forward Cooper Flagg is 19.
Stein pointed to the roster’s age gap as the real driver of the speculation, “Rival teams, however, continue to wonder aloud about how firmly Dallas will stick to that stance once the season begins and the next in-season trade deadline on Feb. Not your average age gap between the team’s two best players,” Stein wrote. Adding Irving to a roster that already includes Antetokounmpo would give Pat Riley’s front office one of the most talented cores in the league, built through two separate win-now trades inside the same calendar year.
