IN THE LANE

TAKING A TRIM: Several familiar Heat faces have made the NBA’s list of players taking the biggest pay cuts this offseason, with Fadeaway World offering a ranking of the league leaders in that category. Third on the list is Heat guard Victor Oladipo, who will earn $18.6 million less this season, as he moved to a $2.4 million minimum-scale contract from the $21 million he earned last season at the end of a contract initially signed with the Indiana Pacers. At No. 6 on the list is former Heat forward James

Johnson, who goes from the $16 million he earned last season at the end of a deal initially signed with the Heat to his $2.6 million minimum this season with the Brooklyn Nets. Ninth on the list is forward Andre Iguodala, who goes from the $15 million he earned last season on a Heat extension to the $2.6 million minimum in his return to the Golden State Warriors. The list is headed by center Andre Drummond, who will earn the $2.4 million minimum with the Philadelphia 76ers, after earning $28.8 million last season.

BEASLEY’S BACK (SORT OF): Although his deal ostensibly is solely as a ringer in the impending playoffs in Puerto Rico, former Heat first-round pick Michael Beasley is back playing games that count for the first time since he played five games with the Guangdong Southern Tigers of the Chinese Basketball Association in 2019. Beasley has joined Cangrejeros de Santurce of Baloncesto Superior Nacional. In his debut there, ahead of the playoffs, Beasley closed with 32 points, 14 rebounds and six assists (nine turnovers, as well) in 35 minutes in a loss. Beasley, who played for the Portland Trail Blazers in August at the

Las Vegas Summer League, did not receive an NBA camp invitation. His last NBA action was with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2018-19. He had been working out with Heat and NBA players in Miami in advance of camps.

GREATER APPRECIATION: Only when he left for his two-season stint with the Heat did Andre Iguodala say he gained duly deserved respect for once-and-again Warriors teammate Stephen Curry. Iguodala said as a teammate of Curry’s during his previous Warriors stint, his focus was more on preparing for the next defensive sequence.“With somebody like Steph, I couldn’t really see it because I was so locked in on what I was doing and so locked in on trying to make his life easier,” Iguodala told NBCSports Bay Area.“Half the time I couldn’t see the shots and the things he was pulling off. I saw it, but I wasn’t really living in the moment. The last two years, I got the opportunity to [recognize] that this dude is really, really good.”

SMILING AGAIN: The constant with Hassan Whiteside, amid his travels from the Heat to Trail Blazers to Sacramento Kings to, now, Utah Jazz, is the smile in place, including after recently winning a post-practice 3-point contest in camp against fellow Jazz center

Rudy Gobert and Jazz part-owner Dwyane Wade, a former Heat teammate.“We forget a little bit, Hassan earned and was rewarded with a big contract in Miami. That wasn’t an accident,”Jazz coach Quin Snyder said. Snyder also noted,“Hassan’s in a really good place. I’m really glad he’s here. I felt strongly when I talked to him that we would be a really good fit for him, and I think he’s feeling that.”

FAMILIAR FEELING: Apparently former Heat guard Josh Richardson has found something close to home in Boston.“Every time we do something live [in practice], it’s like everybody is trying to kill each other,” he said of his initial Celtics experiences. He added, “Everywhere is not like that, and that’s not a knock on anybody. But that’s probably one of the biggest things I picked up, and accountability. Accountability is a big thing there. What I’ve seen here, it’s a big thing too. It’s been good.”