The Miami Heat closed their Las Vegas Summer League schedule Friday night with a 101-87 win over the Detroit Pistons, erasing an 11-point halftime deficit by outscoring Detroit 35-15 over the final 10 minutes.
Tre White led Miami with 21 points, four rebounds and three assists, and Tre Donaldson finished his summer with the best all-around line of the night: 20 points, 10 assists and eight rebounds. Five Heat players scored in double figures, three of them from a second unit that produced 42 points — Ezra Ausar paced the bench with 15 points and seven rebounds, while Meechie Johnson added 13 and Kendall Brown 11. Ebuka Okorie led all scorers with 27 for Detroit. Both teams have completed their 2026 Summer League play.
The result is disposable; the evaluation is not, and this July the evaluation matters more in Miami than in most summers. The trade that brought Giannis Antetokounmpo to Miami sent out much of the team’s young rotation depth, so the back of this roster gets rebuilt largely from the pool that played Friday. The front office has already started: the Heat re-signed Vladislav Goldin to a two-way contract on Thursday. A four-game guard audition that ends with a 20-10-8 stat line is how players like Donaldson turn a summer roster spot into a camp deal, and a fourth quarter in which the reserves ran off 35 points is a decent closing argument for several of them at once.
What comes next is paperwork season: two-way slots and Exhibit 10 invitations get sorted between now and training camp, and Miami’s thinned-out depth chart means those decisions are less ceremonial than usual.
For fantasy purposes, nobody from Friday’s box score belongs on a redraft radar. Donaldson is the name to file in deep dynasty formats — a 20-10-8 finale from a guard fighting for a two-way deal is exactly the kind of line that precedes a back-of-roster NBA opportunity, and Miami’s post-trade depth chart offers a shorter path to spot minutes than most contenders can.
