With the 2025-26 season set to start in lower than a month, the Warmth are finalizing their roster. Earlier within the month, NBA insiders reported Miami was a potential reunion with a former first-round choose.
On Wednesday, September 24, NBA insider Shams Charania introduced the Warmth are signing Treasured Achiuwa to a one-year deal. The 26-year-old was a first-round choose by Miami within the 2020 NBA draft out of Memphis. After only one season with the Warmth to start his profession, Treasured Achiuwa is again for an additional yr in Miami.
The Warmth have signed Treasured Achiuwa to a one-year deal
Free agent C/F Treasured Achiuwa has agreed to a one-year take care of the Miami Warmth, sources inform ESPN. A reunion for the Warmth’s No. 20 choose within the 2020 NBA draft after productive stints in New York and Toronto. pic.twitter.com/QAE1vkuWYX
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) September 24, 2025
Only a few weeks in the past, NBA insider Ira Winderman reported that the Warmth and Treasured Achiuwa had mutual curiosity. Forward of the 2025-26 season, Miami is signing Achiuwa to a one-year deal. The veteran middle reunites with the crew that drafted him again in 2020. Treasured Achiuwa spent one yr with the Warmth. Forward of the 2021-22 season, Miami traded Achiuwa and Goran Dragic to the Raptors in trade for Kyle Lowry.
Treasured Achiuwa spent three seasons with the Raptors. He appeared in 153 video games and made 40 begins for Toronto, averaging 8.9 factors, 6.1 rebounds, and 1.2 assists per recreation. On the 2023-24 deadline, the Knicks acquired Achiuwa as a part of the deal for O.G. Anunoby. Over two seasons, Treasured Achiuwa performed in 106 video games for New York and made 28 begins.
The Warmth deliver again Treasured Achiuwa!
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— 𝙃𝙀𝘼𝙏 𝙉𝘼𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉 (@HeatvsHaters) September 24, 2025
In 2024-25, Achiuwa performed in 57 of New York’s 82 video games and made 10 begins. He missed the primary 21 video games of the season because of harm. Treasured Achiuwa was a free agent this offseason. That was till Shams Charania introduced that Achiuwa is signing a one-year take care of the Miami Warmth. Achiuwa will get one other alternative to play for the crew that drafted him. He performed in 61 video games and made 4 begins for Miami as a rookie.
The Warmth are skinny at frontcourt depth in 2025-26. Signing Treasured Achiuwa was a manner so as to add depth. Bam Adebayo and Kel’el Ware are the beginning PF and middle for Miami. Rookie Vlad Goldin will seemingly be the backup middle, and now Achiuwa will be their backup PF in 2025-26. After lacking the playoffs in 2025, can the Miami Warmth get again on observe?
