MIAMI — The Miami Heat have opted to bypass extending a qualifying offer to Omer Yurtseven, making the second-year center an unrestricted free agent.
The Heat had a Thursday deadline to put the $2.3 million qualifying offer in place ahead of Friday’s 6 p.m. start of the NBA free-agency negotiation period.
The Heat therefore lose the right to match outside offers, although anything beyond the $2.3 million qualifying offer likely would have been bypassed, anyway, based on the Heat’s position hard against the NBA luxury tax.