Heat scouts taking a close look at players in the Las Vegas Summer League.

LAS VEGAS — Don’t tell the Miami Heat scouting staff that NBA free agency is over.

Not when NBA hopefuls are holding individual tryouts in Las Vegas. Not when Heat scouts Chet Kammerer, Adam Simon and Keith Askins continue to fan out to scout every game of the MGM Resorts NBA Summer League. Not when NBA teams are allowed to carry 20 players during the offseason, before the required cut to 15 at the start of the regular season.

“Probably one of the big reasons we’re here, Keith and I and Adam,” said Kammerer, the Heat’s vice president of player personnel, “is we’re trying to look at all the other rosters and see if there’s somebody on their rosters that we think would fit some of the needs that we would have on our G League team and compare those to the guys we have on our team.”

The scouting goes beyond the two gyms on the UNLV campus utilized for summer league.

“We’re always scouting,” said Simon, the Heat’s assistant general manager, who doubles as the general manager of the Heat’s developmental-league affiliate, the G League Sioux Falls Skyforce, “whatever opportunities we can, whether it’s here or workouts through individual agents, when agents don’t want their players playing in summer league — maybe they feel like they’ve already done it already. They have workouts going on around town. We’re always evaluating whatever opportunities we can.”

One of those workouts came Thursday in conjunction with scouts’ attendance at summer league, with former NBA guard Rodney Stuckey showcasing his possibilities in an individual tryout.

Many of the players being scouted by the Heat during these waning days of summer leaguers are players who were scouted by the Heat before last month’s NBA draft, with the possibility of getting a second bite at those apples.

“It’s looking at the big pic- ture and going over information that we have,” Simon said of the huddle that will follow summer league with Kammerer and Askins. “Some guys we wanted the night of the draft, we thought because we don’t have a draft pick we’re going to be able to go get the best [remaining] players. But every team, they do it the same way.

“You might not get the players that you want, and they go to other teams and play. And then maybe you’ll have an opportunity to get them later. And that’s how we look at it. Sometimes all the players we want aren’t on the Heat. So we have to scout everybody and be prepared if those players become available.”

Many times players know their audition is coming for other teams. There arguably is no better example than guard Derrick Walton Jr., who spent last season with the Heat on a two-way contract after his 2017 summerleague play was limited to the Orlando Magic. Now, after the Heat rescinded their qualifying offer and $50,000 guarantee to Walton this week, he likely faces an NBA future elsewhere, even as he remains in action for the Heat in summer league, closing with 15 points and 11 assists in Thursday’s 110-106 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans.

What has changed in recent years when it comes to such secondary scouting is the ability to sign up to two players to two-way contracts that do not count against the 15-player regular-season limit, as well as being able to bring players to camp and then directly affiliate them to a team’s G League team.

Heat advance

The Heat moved into the winner’s bracket today of the Las Vegas summer league after Thursday’s victory over a similar group of rookies, young players and free agents from the Pelicans.

The Heat next play Saturday at 6:30 p.m. EDT against the Boston Celtics, in an elimination game to be televised by ESPN2.

With Derrick Jones Jr. and Bam Adebayo held out, overseas forward Jarrod Jones led the Heat with 31 points Thursday, with Yante Maten adding 19.