MIAReceived
Miami Heat
PAntoine Walker
PJason Williams
PJames Posey
PAndre Emmett
+Roberto Dueñas draft rights
Five-team contender build · August 2, 2005
The five-team trade that remade Miami around Wade and Shaq
Miami acquired Antoine Walker, Jason Williams and James Posey in a 13-player, five-team transaction one year after reaching the conference finals.
See where this happened in the 2005 offseason →The original receipt
Every asset in the deal
Each team panel shows the players and draft assets it received.
To MIADraftPICKround asset
To MEM
To BOSDraftPICKround asset+1 assets
To NOH
To UTAMEMReceived
Memphis Grizzlies
PEddie Jones
PRaúl López
BOSReceived
Boston Celtics
PQyntel Woods
PCurtis Borchardt
+Albert Miralles draft rights
#Two future second-round picks
NOReceived
New Orleans Hornets
PRasual Butler
PKirk Snyder
UTAReceived
Utah Jazz
PGreg Ostertag
Why it happened
The bet each side made
Pat Riley wanted more passing, shooting and lineup flexibility around Dwyane Wade and Shaquille O'Neal without waiting for another summer.
Why history remembers it
Walker, Williams and Posey all became rotation pieces on the 2006 championship team, making the enormous transaction one of the clearest offseason-to-title builds of the era.
The family tree
Where the picks and rights went
Selections, swaps and later trades are traced separately so a downstream player is not mistaken for a direct one-for-one return.
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Miami's incoming trio · traded
2006 NBA championship rotation
Walker, Williams and Posey each logged meaningful postseason minutes during Miami's first title run.
What changed
The consequences
- Miami added three eventual championship rotation players at once.
- The transaction required five teams and 13 players or draft assets.
- Eddie Jones's departure opened a larger role for Wade as Miami's primary perimeter creator.
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