IN THE LANE

HEY BIG SPENDER: So how does one go about draining a bank account bolstered by a five-year, $90 million contract. Apparently with some taco time. At least that was the case for Heat guard Duncan Robinson with the first of his free-agency riches, after securing his five-year, $90 million deal. “That’s actually a question that everyone keeps asking me, ‘What’s your first purchase going to be?’ ” he said on his The Long Shot podcast. “I haven’t gotten that far yet. My first actual purchase after officially agreeing to the deal, I was driving in the car back from the airport, I stopped by Locos Coco’s Tacos in Kittery, Maine, and picked up some good-old New England Mexican food for the family. Picked it up and we just enjoyed some Locos Coco’s tacos. So if you were thinking that I was going to do some lavish dinner at [Miami Beach’s] Carbone or like something real spicy, no, just some classic New England tacos.”

SUMMER FACES: Among those who will be playing in the Las Vegas summer league are several former members of the Heat. For Michael

Beasley, the latest comeback attempt will come with the Portland Trail Blazers’ summer roster. Beasley last played in the NBA in 2019, with the Lakers. For Chris Silva, the bid for an NBA return will come with the Brooklyn Nets. Silva was cut April 28 by the Sacramento Kings after he was traded by the Heat for Nemanja Bjelica on March 25, appearing in just four games for Sacramento. Yante Maten, who scored a Heat twoway contract after solid summer play in 2018, is with the Orlando Magic’s summer roster, after playing in South Korea.

SUMMER, TOO: Former brief-tenure Heat players Derrick Walton Jr. and Emmanuel Terry are on the Kings’ summer roster. Former Heat summer prospect Jeremiah Martin this time will play for the Hawks’ summer team. And from a South Florida perspective, former Pine Crest standout Brandon Knight is attempting an NBA comeback with the Nets, after last playing in the NBA in 2019-20, with the Detroit Pistons. Knight, 29, had a tryout in March with the Bucks. In addition, former University of Miami player Davon Reed, a 2019 Heat camp hopeful, is with the Denver Nuggets’ summer squad.

MEMORY LANE: If the notion of a five-team trade, which the Washington Wizards conjured with the Nets, Lakers, Indiana Pacers and San Antonio Spurs this past week in order to sign Spencer Dinwiddie, sounds faintly familiar, it should. It was the NBA’s first five-team trade since the Heat were involved with one 16 years ago, with the Grizzlies, Hornets, Jazz and Celtics. That was the one on Aug. 3, 2015 that allowed the Heat to acquire

Jason Williams, James Posey and Antoine Walker, players who would solidify the core that won the NBA title 10 months later alongside Dwyane Wade and Shaquille O’Neal. Among Heat players sent out in that deal

were Eddie Jones and the late Rasual Butler.

HISTORY, TOO: Another historical perspective to this latest round of free agency is the ongoing impact of Ryan Anderson on the Heat’s ledger. This coming season marks the third and final year that Anderson will count at $5.2 million on the Heat’s salary cap due to the team utilizing the stretch provision on the forward in the 2019 offseason in order to open the needed salary-cap space to sign Jimmy Butler. That will have Anderson counting on the Heat books this season at more than Tyler

Herro ($4 million), KZ Okpala ($1.8 million) and at three times the cap hit of each of the minimum deals signed by Victor Oladipo, Markieff

Morris, Dewayne Dedmon, Max Strus and Gabe Vincent. Anderson has not played in the NBA since appearing in two games at the start of the

2019-20 season for the Houston Rockets, then waived by Houston on Nov. 18, 2019.

NUMBER 3. Consecutive NBA championships represented by three Heat

acquisitions this offseason, with P.J. Tucker winning in this year with the

Bucks, Markieff Morris in 2020 with the Lakers (over the Heat) and Kyle Lowry in 2019 with the Raptors.