And hitting on a player like Nunn can shave a year or two off of a franchise’s rebuild. Miami figured to be a major free agent player in 2021, when the next great class of potential free agents will come available. Riles, as we all know, doesn’t usually sit around and wait for things to happen.
If Nunn and first-rounder Tyler Herro join Jimmy Butler to help form a nucleus for the Heat going forward, it’s hard to see Riles standing pat next summer. “Coach Spoelstra is big right now on having guys that are versatile, on guys that aren’t one-dimensional,” Kammerer said. “It’s the fact we saw a couple of things. He was really versatile. He always seemed like a tough kid, physically and mentally tough. To me, he was hard to guard. When we played them, he found ways. It was tough to stay in front of the guy. He’s an attacker. He competes hard. He was a better shooter than all of us thought, too. You look at his percentages, and we said ‘this is a guy can shoot the ball.’ You look at all of those things, and that’s a Heat guy, to us.”
