Miami, FL
Cam Smith’s potential in year 2 – The Splash Zone 6/20/24
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The Miami Dolphins selected cornerback, Cam Smith, in the second round of the 2023 NFL Draft and ended his rookie season with 20 defensive snaps. Smith wound up in defensive coordinator Vic Fangio’s doghouse and saw Ethan Bonner, an undrafted rookie, contribute more in the secondary. Thankfully Smith can put that year behind him and focus on improving under the Dolphins new defensive coordinator, Anthony Weaver. It also helps having Jalen Ramsey and Kendall Fuller as teammates to learn from two of the best in the NFL.
You can check out that story here, and the rest of the day’s round-up below.
Why the Miami Dolphins like Cam Smith’s Potential for Year 2
The Miami Dolphins’ top draft pick in 2023 is looking to take a big step after a forgettable rookie season, and his coaches like the signs they saw in the offseason.
Dolphins Tight Ends
Miami Dolphins Training Camp Preview: TE Tanner Conner
The third-year tight end will try to work his way onto the 53-man roster
Dolphins Offseason
The Miami Dolphins Super Bowl Ring Mistake and Travis Kelce’s Reaction
There’s a factual mistake on the Kansas City Chiefs’ latest Super Bowl rings and it involves the Dolphins
Phinsider News You May Have Missed
A bigger role for De’Von Achane – Miami Dolphins News 6/19/24 – The Phinsider
Welcome to the Splash Zone, the quickest way to get your day started off right. We bring you a rundown of Miami Dolphins news from the last 24 hours.
NFL roundup: Trevor Lawrence gets paid – The Phinsider
Trevor Lawrence is the latest player to cash in on a big payday
Miami Dolphins’ LT Terron Armstead speaks highly of QB Tua Tagovailoa – The Phinsider
Terron Armstead and Tua Tagovailoa have built quite a relationship over the last few seasons. but will Miami’s quarterback get paid what he deserves?
NFL Insider Weighs in on Tua Tagovailoa’s Potential Contract Extension – The Phinsider
NFL insider Tom Pelissero analyzes the quarterback market and where Tagovailoa stands.
Phinsider Question Of The Day: Most Overrated Edition – The Phinsider
Who’s your most overrated Miami Dolphins player?
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Miami, FL
NBA Experts Rate Miami Heat’s Selection of Center Kal’el Ware As Just Above Average
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The Miami Heat’s selection of Indiana center Kal’el Ware brought mixed results from national media outlets.
The grades have ranged from B to C. Accordingly, the Heat’s selection could be graded by as a slightly above average. Ware is coming off a breakout sophomore season at Indiana, where he earned All-Big Ten second-team honors and made the Big Ten All-Defensive team.
Here’s what the pundits said:
Ayrton Ostly of USA TODAY: “Ware’s athleticism in a 7-foot frame with a 7-foot-4 wingspan makes him an enticing prospect as a defender and dunker. He’s a prolific three-point shooter as well. He needs to improve his effort and decision maker as a passer.” Grade – B.
CBS Sports’ Adam Finkelstein and Kyle Boone: “Ware is the most polarizing prospect in this class. There are a lot of those guys, but he’s the most extreme. He’s been that way since high school. He has every single tool in the book: size, speed, hands, touch out to the perimeter. But he’s said out loud he’s not sure how much he loves basketball. There have been questions about his motor, physicality, etc. But going to the Heat and Heat culture will be great for him — unless he can’t fit in.” Grade – B-
Kyle Irving of The Sporting News: “Ware’s mobility, athleticism and potential to stretch the floor makes him a great fit with the Heat. He’s a rim protector and lob catcher with developing offensive skills.” – Grade – B+
Scott Salomon is contributor to Inside the Heat. He can be reached at scottsalomon67@gmail.com.
Miami, FL
Miami Beach makes history with appointment of first female fire chief
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MIAMI – History has been made in the City of Miami Beach with the appointment of a new fire chief.
“Today I said, before you with the most gratitude and profound humility, as I accept the appointment as a 14th fire chief of Miami Beach,” said Miami Beach Fire Deputy Chief Digna Abello.
After 19 years with the city of Miami Beach Fire Department, Abello has just been appointed the 14th fire chief and the first female fire chief in the county.
“There is no doubt in my mind that she is ready and prepared to take on this new role,” said Rickelle Williams, Miami Beach Interim City Manager.
It’s a role outgoing Chief Virgil Fernandez served for 10 years, including his 42 of service in the city of Miami, as well, as Hollywood.
“I thank, the mayor, the vice mayor, commissioners… Thank you for your support throughout the years thank you to the residents and businesses, some of whom are more than just friends, but family,” Chief Virgil Fernandez Miami Beach Fire said.
Abello will be following in his footsteps to serve the city she is so proud of.
“This city doesn’t discriminate, doesn’t look at who you are, where you’re from and we all have that same equal opportunity to drive and succeed,” said Abello.
Chief Fernandez will officially be stepping down, effective July 1st.
Miami, FL
NBA draft now with a halftime, with Heat back at it for second round Thursday
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MIAMI — This time, the NBA draft comes with a halftime, the league for the first time spreading the two rounds over two days.
So Wednesday night the main course, the first 30 selections over the first round at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center.
Thursday at 4 p.m at ESPN’s New York studios, the final 28 selections (with picks forfeited due to previous salary-cap violations by the Philadelphia 76ers and Phoenix Suns.)
For the Miami Heat and the rest of the league, it means an opportunity for a double exhale. Not only about the 17 hours between the rounds, but teams are now given four minutes in the second round per selection instead of the previous two (there remains a five-minute limit between selections in the first round).
“It’s going to be a lot of digging of information between the two rounds,” said Adam Simon, the Heat’s vice president of basketball operations and assistant general manager, who oversees the team’s draft.
With the Heat entering the draft process slotted at No. 43 overall, the 13th selection of the second round, the break in the draft will mean a reset of the intel process, with teams having played some of their hand in the first round.
“So it’s either going to be a lot of maneuvering or a lot of lying,” Simon said of the chatter during the break, “one or the other.”
As it is, having a second-round pick is somewhat of a Heat anomaly.
The last time the Heat emerged from the second round with a selection was when they traded for the rights to KZ Okpala in 2019. That foray led to an uneven partnership on a three-year contract the Heat eventually dealt for salary-cap relief.
The second round is one that is played by its own rules – numerous rules. Unlike first-round selections, which come with guaranteed contracts, players selected in the second round are not slotted into a specific salary scale. Further, some teams make second-round selections with the intent of signing those picks to two-way contracts, which do not count against the salary cap. In addition, second-round agreements often are made with overseas players to have such selections remain overseas and therefore count neither against next season’s salary cap nor roster limit.
While the Wild West nature of the season round hasn’t changed, what has is the added time for agents to influence the process.
“I anticipate a lot of phone calls between teams and agents, and agents trying to figure out where their players are going to go,” Simon of the break between rounds, with the Heat’s war room set up on the team’s practice court at Kaseya Center.
With the NBA’s rookie scale, the first round is formulaic.
“The second round, there’s the ability to sign players to four-year contracts or two-way contracts or ‘stash,’ you take a foreign player, leave him over,” Simon said. “So I think every agent’s going to have a different agenda, and some are going to want their players to try to get to certain teams.
“They’re going to do what they can to maybe potentially get their player to a team. And then at the same time, there’ll be teams trying to find out from agents where they think their players are going to go and help them to maneuver.”
Recent Heat second-round picks
2024: No. 43 (own selection).
2023: None.
2022: None.
2021: None.
2020: None.
2019: Bol Bol (No. 44, immediately dealt to Denver Nuggets). Traded for No. 32 selection KZ Okpala.
2018: None.
2017: None.
2016: None.
2015: Josh Richardson (No. 40).
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