With John Konchar off the board, the Heat are likely to keep the 15th spot on their standard roster open, Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald tweets.

Konchar signed an Exhibit 9 contract this week with the Knicks, rather than waiting on a firm offer from the Heat, who according to Jackson intrigued some members of the Heat’s front office. Keeping a spot open makes sense for the Heat, giving them more room to pursue in-season buyout options or any other opportunities.

To that end, the Heat haven’t made an offer to free agent Gabe Vincent, even though the point guard would welcome a Heat reunion, Jackson reports. Jackson notes they could give Vincent a non-guaranteed deal and have him compete with Dru Smith in training camp for an opening-night spot but Miami hasn’t presented that option.

Here’s more on the Heat:

• Tre White continues to pursue a return to college basketball as a fifth-year player through the legal system and hasn’t informed the Heat if he will accept the team’s two-way contract offer, Jackson reports. White agreed to sign a training camp deal with Miami in late June after going undrafted. White bounced around over the course of his four-year college career, playing for USC as a freshman, Louisville as a sophomore, and Illinois as a junior before transferring to Kansas for his senior year. Currently, the Heat have all three two-way spots filled, so they’d have to make room to sign White to a two-way deal.
• Guard Davion Mitchell is entering his walk year in better shape physically and mentally, Jackson relays. Mitchell revealed his issues last season on the “Deuce and Mo” podcast. “The beginning of the year last year, I was going through a lot mentally,” he said. “Having a kid. Honestly, I didn’t feel I was in the best shape at the beginning of the year last year. (Coach Erik Spoelstra) understood that and respected everything I do. He knows how I work hard. “It was a time that I was so messed up in the summertime, there were times in camp I didn’t feel like myself. I was super quiet, not even myself. I respected [Spoelstra] because he put me out there and made me grow as a player. He really believed in me. I was going through so much mentally, it was hard to have confidence in everything I was doing. It wasn’t basketball; it was life. People don’t understand we’re still human.”
• Vladislav Goldin’s positive attitude and willingness to continue to improve his game in the G League works in his favor to retain his two-way spot, Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sun Sentinel writes in a mailbag post. However, the big man is by no means safe, Winderman adds, since two-way contracts can easily be swapped out and Goldin’s spot is more tenuous than their other two-way players, Tre Donaldson and Keshad Johnson.