​The Miami Heat were prepared to formally introduce new players Bobby Portis and Giannis Antetokounmpo on July 16, the former Milwaukee Bucks staples who were traded to the Heat in early July.With Antetokounmpo set for a later conference, Portis went first, with Heat president Pat Riley calling Portis the “prototype power forward” and noting he led the league in double-doubles off the bench.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement”It’s sort of a dream and aspiration of mine that came true,” Riley said. “With Bam [Adebayo] and Giannis and Niko [Nikola Jović] and Bobby, we have a very potent power rotation that’s very versatile.”Riley said the deal had been agreed to by June 23 (he misspoke and said July 23), then kept quiet until July 6.”[We] hated hearing that chant over in Milwaukee all the time, but it was a chant that was borne out of love and respect of what he brings to the game, and that’s a lunchpail, physical mentality,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said of Portis, referring to the “Bob-by!” chants.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementPortis said he was “born to be a Heatle” and that Miami was his favorite team growing up. He even recalled a story after getting drafted by the Chicago Bulls that old tweets of his surfaced, when a young teenage Portis disparaged Bulls star Derrick Rose while professing his love for Heat Nation.”It felt like the media was pushing [a trade] really hard, and once it came to fruition, I’m just grateful it was this spot, with an organization that already has a culture in place,” Portis said. “Might sound kind of cliche, but it is what it is. … I knew it would go down eventually. I’m just so happy it’s with this organization.”Added Portis, “When you’re somewhere for so long, you build all these relationships with the equipment people, the security guards, the front-office people, the people in the city, the people at the local coffee shop, the people at the local restaurants. All these people start to become like family.”When you get traded, it’s like your whole life shifts and you have to adjust to a new era, a new place. But that’s why you get paid the big bucks, to be able to adjust on the fly.”AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementPortis told the story of how he came to the Bucks, having been sidelined for nine months because of the COVID-19 pandemic with his New York Knicks team not among those invited to the Orlando “bubble,” instead spending the interim reconnecting with family in Arkansas. His agent connected Portis to Bucks assistant Josh Oppenheimer, who in turn connected Portis with Antetokounmpo.”He’s been my boy ever since,” Portis said. “I told him, ‘I can help you guys win a chip [championship],’ and six months later, we won the chip. It was very much career-changing for me. I do have to give them grace for letting me come in there six years. Coming into this situation now, I’m older now, been through a lot of things, I’ve been battle-tested. Once adversity hits this season, which it will at some