Heat can't get into the top 20

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Things looking bleak for the Heat. They need to trade Mash and get younger...

Heat loses future first-round pick 

By IRA WINDERMAN Staff Writer       
Web-posted: 11:08 p.m. June 10, 1999

The Heat came up empty Thursday in a final bid to secure a Top 20 draft 
choice to forward to Utah to complete a previous trade. Because of that, the 
Heat's 2000 first-round pick, regardless of its position, now belongs to the 
Jazz.
   The Heat had until Thursday to fulfill its obligation of offering Utah a 
pick No. 1 through No. 20 in '97, '98 or '99 to complete the 1996 draft-day 
trade that sent forward Martin Muursepp from the Jazz to the Heat. Its picks 
those years were higher than No. 20, and unable to acquire an outside 
selection to meet the trade requirement, the Heat was forced to forfeit its 
2000 first-round pick.
   General Manager Randy Pfund spent Thursday considering acquiring a Top 20 
pick while at the Chicago pre-draft camp, but instead the Heat still holds 
the No. 25 pick in the June 30 draft and no other selection.