{"id":626,"date":"2026-03-20T13:09:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cerulepillar.com\/?p=626"},"modified":"2026-03-25T13:28:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:28:01","slug":"media-reporting-says-miami-heat-intend-to-waive-terry-rozier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerulepillar.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/media-reporting-says-miami-heat-intend-to-waive-terry-rozier\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Reporting Says Miami Heat Intend to Waive Terry Rozier"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><b>Media reports indicate Miami Heat are set to move on from Terry Rozier<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Rozier charged last fall after federal investigation into illegal gambling<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>No trial date set as of yet for Rozier<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The Miami Heat are moving on from Terry Rozier, under investigation by federal authorities over gambling allegations and currently away from the team, according to ESPN and the <em>Miami Herald<\/em>. Reporting said the team intends to waive the guard before the NBA playoffs start.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_365887\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-365887\" data-style=\"width: 858px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-post-thumbnail-858xAUTO wp-image-365887 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" width=\"858\" height=\"572\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cerulepillar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Terry-Rozier-NBA-Miami-Heat-858x572-1.jpeg\"><figcaption>Terry Rozier of the Miami Heat dribbles the ball during the second half in a preseason game against the Memphis Grizzlies at Kaseya Center in October 2025 in Miami. (Image: Tomas Diniz Santos\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Arrested in October<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/rozier-billups-placed-on-leave-by-nba-gambling-storm\/\">Rozier<\/a> has pleaded not guilty to federal conspiracy charges of wire fraud and money laundering. There is no trial date.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Spotrac Rozier\u2019s salary this season was $26.6 million, the last year of a four-year contract he signed with the Charlotte Hornets in 2022. Rozier isn\u2019t being paid while on leave due to the FBI investigation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">By waiving Rozier, the Heat would create a roster spot for a playoff run. The National Basketball Players Association appealed that decision to withhold his salary.<\/p>\n<h2>$26.6 Million Salary<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The other issue is compensation coming to the Heat, since some say the team should have been made aware of investigations into Rozier when the Hornet traded him to Miami in 2024. Earlier in March the Hornets announced they were sending a 2026 second-round draft pick to the Heat to solve the dispute between the two teams.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">NBA commissioner Adam Silver said in December that this was a unique situation, and some kind of relief would have to be sent Miami\u2019s way. Miami still owes Charlotte a first-round draft pick in either 2027 or 2028 as part of the original trade.<\/p>\n<h2>Still No Trial Date<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rozier would need to be waived by 5 p.m. EST on April 9 to clear waivers. The NBA regular season ends April 12.<\/p>\n<p>Rozier was arrested in October for his alleged involvement in an illegal gambling scheme. His lawyers, led by James Trusty and A. Jeff Ifrah, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/rozier-lawyers-make-bid-to-have-betting-charges-tossed\/\">argued in a motion to dismiss<\/a> in December that the government overreach boiled down to turning a private dispute over bettors\u2019 use of nonpublic information for sports betting purposes into a federal case.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors allege that Rozier worked with bettors while he was a member of the Hornets by deliberately pulling himself out of an NBA game in March 2023, due to a foot issue, less than 10 minutes after play started. Authorities claim he left the game so that he and the bettors he was working with could cash in on $200K worth of prop betting around Rozier-related unders that game.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/illegal-gambling-miami-heat-intend-to-waive-terry-rozier\/\">Media Reporting Says Miami Heat Intend to Waive Terry Rozier<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\">Casino.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media reports indicate Miami Heat are set to move on from Terry Rozier Rozier charged last fall after federal investigation into illegal gambling No trial date set as of yet for Rozier The Miami Heat are moving on from Terry Rozier, under investigation by federal authorities over gambling allegations and currently away from the team,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerulepillar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerulepillar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerulepillar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerulepillar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerulepillar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cerulepillar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/cerulepillar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerulepillar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerulepillar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerulepillar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerulepillar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}