Miami Heat center Kevin Love "has made it clear" he plans to return for the 2025-26 NBA season, according to the Associated Press' Tim Reynolds. The Heat's first-round elimination by the Cleveland Cavaliers marked the end of Love's 17th NBA season and third with Miami.

Heat forward Kevin Love said Wednesday that he intends to return for the 2025 season, per Tim Reynolds of The Associated Press. Love, 36, has one year remaining on his contract worth $4.15 million.

Miami Heat forward Kevin Love announced on Instagram that his father Stan, a former player for the Los Angeles Lakers, had sadly passed away. Love missed the final portion of the season as well as the Heat’s playoff loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers to be with his family.

Tyler Herro says his reported comments about needing Jimmy Butler before the Miami Heat's Game 3 against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Saturday were taken out of context. Herro wrote in a Wednesday post on his Instagram story that he had been asked a question "in the timeframe of Jan-Feb when the 'Jimmy saga' was happening.

On Wednesday, as the Heat dusted themselves off and picked up the pieces from their lost year, Tyler Herro's reaction to one of his pretty harmless quotes about Butler only added unnecessary drama to what sure seems like an already fraught situation for the organization.

MIAMI – Before the Miami Heat were swept by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the first round of the NBA Playoffs, there was an interesting quote said by Tyler Herro involving Jimmy Butler that made a lot of the basketball world do a double-take.