BOBBY Portis Jr.

Across 67 games with Milwaukee in 2025-26, Portis averaged 13.7 points, 6.4 rebounds, 1.6 assists, 0.6 steals and 0.2 blocks in 24.2 minutes a night. He shot 48.8 percent from the field, 45.6 percent from three and 70.6 percent from the line, numbers that add up to a 58.7 true shooting percentage. His usage rate sat at 22.5 percent, and his plus-minus for the season was -4.0. Those shooting splits, especially the 45.6 percent from deep, show a big man who can space the floor and finish efficiently. That kind of scoring punch, paired with frontcourt size at 6-10 and 250 pounds, is the profile Portis brings into his first season in Miami.

Portis has already logged games for Miami this season. He had 12 points, 5 rebounds and 1 assist in 15.1 minutes in a loss to Orlando on Oct. 16, and 12 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists in 24.1 minutes in a win over Brooklyn on Oct. 14. He did not see the floor against Minnesota on Oct. 10, logging 0 points and 0.0 minutes in that loss. He bounced back with 11 points and 6 rebounds in 20.0 minutes in a win over New Orleans on Oct. 8, and opened the stretch with 4 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists in 11.2 minutes in a win over Toronto on Oct. 3.

There is no injury concern tied to Portis right now. He is not on the injury report, and there is no injury history listed for him. The one game where he did not play, a loss to Minnesota on Oct. 10, came with 0.0 minutes and no stats logged, but nothing in his file ties that absence to an injury. For a player already in his 11th season, staying off the injury report early in the year is a good sign for his workload going forward. Miami will take that durability as a building block as the rotation takes shape in the season's first weeks.

Portis's role in Miami looks like a mix of bench minutes and bigger outings, based on how his first games have gone: minutes have ranged from 0.0 to 24.1 a night. The swings in playing time, paired with scoring lines that have ranged from 0 to 12 points so far, suggest the Heat are still working out exactly when to deploy him. His last-season efficiency marks with Milwaukee, 48.8 percent shooting and 45.6 percent from three, point to a player capable of scoring in bunches when his minutes are there. How consistent his playing time becomes as the season goes on will shape how much of that production shows up in a Heat uniform.