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The Miami Heat could very well be in the draft lottery this season, which really wasn't what they were thinking going into the season, eh? But Chris Bosh's reported blot clot problem, along with a general problem with underperforming, has left the Heat in the fight for the eighth and final playoff spot in the East as we head into the final six weeks of the season. What exactly has gone wrong in Miami? How can it be fixed? And if Pat Riley's team misses the playoffs, who might they target in the draft? Former Division I head coach Bobby Gonzalez, now writing for SheridanHoops.com (check out his Mock Draft), gave his answers in this interview with Orlando Alzugaray on the Big O show on 560 WQAM in Miami. Enjoy.

The New York Knicks have run the Love Triangle offense off the court better than Phil Jackson’s version on the court thanks to coaches Derek Fisher and Kurt Rambis. Will this be the final straw for Carmelo Anthony to waive his no-trade clause and for the Knicks to scrap the Triangle offense for a proven winner in former Chicago Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau, the best available coach on the market? Speaking of the Bulls, Derrick Rose is averaging 26 points, 5.7 rebounds and 4.7 assists per game since returning from the All-Star break. However, without a healthy Jimmy Butler, the Bulls would have a tough time giving the Cleveland Cavaliers a fight in a potential first-round matchup should the standings hold as present. For that matter, it remains to be seen if the Raptors can give the Cavaliers a run for their money in the East when Toronto has failed to advance past the first round since 2001. If Cleveland makes it to the NBA Finals healthy, we’ll at least be able to answer a lingering question from last season: Could the Cavaliers, with a healthy LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love, beat the Warriors for the title? That ship appears to have sailed last season. With the Warriors on a historical pace this season as arguably the best team ever, Cleveland would be an underdog – even with James still in his prime. With that in mind, I joined Yahoo Sports radio to discuss whether the Raptors can challenge the Cavaliers, what the future of the Bulls looks like for Derrick Rose and Pau Gasol, potential trade markets for Blake Griffin and Kevin Love, the Knicks’ Triangle offense on and off the court and where Anthony Davis ranks among the game’s top players after scoring 59 points and grabbing 20 rebounds against the Detroit Pistons.

We have our first trade deadline deal -- almost exactly 72 hours before Thursday's NBA trade deadline. Just months after signing a max contract extension with the Orlando Magic, Tobias Harris is being dealt to the Detroit Pistons for point guard Brandon Jennings and stretch forward Ersan Ilyasova. The news was broken by our own Michael Scotto -- not a bad scoop for that young man. The deal appears to be a coup for Pistons coach/general manager Stan Van Gundy, who is acquiring one of the league's top young talents in exchange for a backup point guard (though in truth, Jennings would be a starter if not for Detroit's acquisition of Reggie Jackson at the deadline a year ago) and a stretch 4 who is in the middle tier, at best, of the NBA's stretch 4s. Harris has been averaging 13.7 points and 7.0 rebounds for the Magic while shooting 46 percent from the field, with his scoring total off significantly from the 17.1 points he averaged last season -- his third with the Magic after being acquired from Milwaukee in a deal for J.J. Redick that was considered one of the best ever made by Magic general manager Rob Hennigan. His 3-point percentage of .311 is down from last year's number of .364. With Detroit, he will likely start on the front line that also includes Andre Drummond, who leads the NBAs in double-doubles, and Marcus Morris Jennings will presumably take over the starting point guard spot from Elfrid Payton as Scott Skiles tries to make a playoff push with a team that started the season strongly but has slumped badly since they were 19-13 at the start of 2016, losing 16 of 20 to drop to 11th place in the Eastern Conference, 3 1/2 games behind the Charlotte Hornets. Here is Scotto discussing the deal on SiriusXM Radio with hosts Mateen Cleaves and Jared Greenberg.

Think the Bulls miss Tom Thibodeau? You know that saying from the old Joni Mitchell song: "You don't know what you've got til it's gone?" OK, maybe you don't know that song. Apologies for dating myself. But here is something Bulls fans of all ages can relate to: The team, at 27-25, is one of the East's biggest underachievers, the trainer's room is overloaded, the immediate future is looking a bit bleak, and the trade deadline is going to come and go with the possibility that one of Thibodeau's biggest supporters, Taj Gibson, will be he main player moved by Chicago due to their logjam at the power forward spot. Reports out of Chicago in recent days have said the Bulls intend to hang onto Pau Gasol, who plans to opt out of his $7.77 million deal for next season in order to cash in one one last major payday as the salary cap balloons to $90 million. He will probably get double that amount or more from the Bulls or someone else, and who can blame him for trying to get into the Derrick Rose (making $41.4 million this season and next) stratosphere. And speaking of Rose, folks in Chicago have clearly grown tired of him. By all appearances, he peaked four years ago. And if the Bulls could find a taker, they'd be eager to part with him, don't you think? Well, here's the thing. The New York Knicks are looking for a point guard, and the only player on their roster who might be of interest to Chicago is Carmelo Anthony -- who flirted with Chicago in free agency before deciding to put his trust in Phil. I have gone on record saying the time for Phil Jackson to trade him is now, and on Tuesday morning I furthered that argument on the Mully and Hanley show on 670 The Score in Chicago. Enjoy.

Houston Rockets coach J.B. Bickerstaff called his team “broken” recently, and with the team currently out of the playoffs Dwight Howard could be on the move. However, trading Howard may not be as easy as it sounds in theory as colleague Ben DuBose explained in a SheridanHoops column. Trades talks are heating up with less than a week until the trade deadline on February 18. Another player who may be dealt at the deadline is Phoenix Suns forward Markieff Morris who has wanted out since the summer when the team dealt his brother, Marcus, to the Detroit Pistons. With that in mind, Michael Scotto of SheridanHoops.com joined Sportsnet 590 The Fan radio to discuss the latest on trade rumblings around the league and what the Rockets will do with Dwight Howard.