Miami Heat: Which young player could be a star? | Five on the Floor

Miami Heat: Which young player could be a star? | Five on the Floor

Hi, welcome back to five on the floor. Here’s today’s floor plan. I’m Ethan Skolnick. You can follow me at Ethan Jolnik at Five Reason Sports. We got Eternal Bash. You can follow me at Eternal Bash. You can also find him on Off the Floor and on Playback. You can find that at playback.tv/5rsn. So, the Miami Heat are going young sort of. They’ve acquired Norm Powell who’s in his 32year-old season this year. Andrew Wiggins is going to be 31 later this season. Other than that, the core rotation players on this team are mostly 28 or younger. Uh, Bam Adabio is 28. Tyler Herro is 25, I believe, going to be 26 this season. And then there’s a whole bunch of players under that. This is one of the youngest teams that the Heat have fielded in a while. Uh, reminds me a little bit of the 0304 team, although there were actually more established vets on that team. Well, Brian Grant and Eddie Jones at least, but you also had Dwayne Wade, Karan Butler, Lamar Odum, Udonis Hasslam, Malik Allen were some of the young players on that team. That makes me feel really old. Um, but as you go young, there are different ways to go young and there are some teams that have had higher picks than the Heat. So, like their young players are like say Kade Cunningham or Palo Bonero and France Vagner. The Heat don’t have those kind of top 10 picks. But what we’re going to look at today is we’re going to project what levels these players can get to because they talk about a core of young players. So just for just for context, Bamabio made an all-star team in his third season. Okay. Uh drafted in 2017, drafted 14th overall, playing behind Hassan Whiteside. They of course were able to move Hassan. I just saw Hassan recently. Looks a lot different. uh in the Miami Pro League. Just hard to believe how where Bam is, where Hassan is at this stage. Uh Bam obviously took the starting job, became an all-star in Jimmy’s rookie in not Jimmy’s rookie, Jimmy’s first season with Miami. Also happened to be Tyler’s rookie season. Of course, that’s a season that ended up uh in the finals in the bubble. So that was the COVID season of 1920. So Bam was an all-star in his third season. He’s been all-star twice since. Tyler Herro was an all-star in his sixth season, 2024, 2025. He was kind of close one other year but not didn’t get over the hump this year. He did make an all-star teams. He was an all-star in his sixth season. We’re going to use the two of them. We’re not going to talk about the two of them because that’s not they’re established. Okay? I don’t know if they both are, but they are going to be going forward, but even at 28 and 25, they’re considered to be established stars in the NBA. I to me, you’re a star. Eternal, how would you qualify it? I I think there’s only like for me a superstar is somebody that you can win a championship with that player as your best player like and I there’s only about eight of those I think but I I I think there’s about I think you could go 25 maybe 30 deep in stars and I guess if that’s the case then I don’t know necessarily that he’d have two stars although they have had they do have two players who are have been all stars. I would say that for the star qualifier, I think maybe 20, maybe 25 would be the appropriate because I feel like, you know, just like Pat talked about it at the press conference at the end of the season press conference, like there ain’t that many super that many super mass guys, right? Like there there not that many superstars, right? Like I I feel like you have uh established superstars, maybe friend superstars, like allstar level talent guys, right? Um like Shay for instance was a all-star guy before he catapulted himself into superstar, you know? Is a superstar. Giannis is a superstar, right? And then then I think you also have some guys who were superstars who are I wouldn’t call them fading stars, but we’ve seen their best. I I feel like well the trio of LeBron, Steph, and Durant probably qualifies. They’re still all three of them are still stars. Are they superstars you can build a team around that wins a title now? I I’m not sure but like but they’re in that classification because super superstars basically can carry can carry your franchise. Right. Right. And Steph can at times but he it’s not where it used to be. So, I think when we we talk about this qualifier where what are what our stars and everything like that, you can be a allstar and not be a star. You know what I’m saying? Like some guys have made the Arkansas team one or maybe twice and then like their play, their performance in the regular season playoffs or whatever doesn’t match the moniker of star. Well, what’s interesting about it is that it’s interesting about it is there are only 24 players that are, you know, voted by the coaches or the fans or whatever as all stars, right? Because they have that ridiculous format this year. So, you would think those would be the best 24 players in the league, but when you then rank them up at the end of seasons, there are guys in that list and Tyler’s one of them who probably wouldn’t be included in the top 24 in the league there. you know, others might be included ahead of him, but in some cases it’s because they still do this east west split for voting and there’s obviously more players out west. So, a little bit hard to gauge it, but for the purposes of this exercise, okay, we will try to qualify whether or not any of these guys within a certain time period can be superstars. I think we can rule that out for all of them. uh stars, which I would say maybe get in the top 30 in the league. Maybe that’s the threshold because there are 30 teams in the league. So maybe say a top 30 player in the league. Uh I think then the next thing would be like quality starter would be somewhere between sort of 31 and 80 or 90 and then beyond that is kind of rotation player and then beyond that is going to be hanging on. Okay, I think that’s the way to look at this. So, let let’s start with Khloe Wear. Mhm. Who obviously was talked about very much in Vegas. Do you think he has star potential even to the level of getting to in three years being a all-star like Bam was? Remember, he was drafted in the same range as Bam and Tyler 15th. They were drafted 13th and 14th. or maybe by his 60 season like Tyler got to an All-Star game. Do you what what is the what was the chances that he could do either of those two things? I think I think when we talk about Kh where I think if you just on his talent, physical talent level, yes, right? Like yes, hell yes, he could probably be a multi multi-time all-star, right? But I think the the main thing about that is his work e ethic. Um him developing his skills um filling out that skill tree and everything like that. That is what going to propel him towards his potential that ceiling right. But the other guys I think obviously Kh is the most physically gifted player on this list of heat players. the other guys will have other things that they would need to kind of check in order to get to like all-star level or whatever like that. But I do think um Kh has the easiest path. I mean, you look at guys in the past, Jamal Mcloire, um some other centers um or big men who have made it just based off of just numbers, right? Like you can come in and have a hot season of just converting really well within the paint, blocking shots, getting rebounds, things like that, and your team is in the middle high ground of your conference, then you can sneak into the uh the all-star, you know, game as far as like as a reserve. And if if he is putting up 15 15 type numbers u with a couple of blocks and high efficiency in the paint and the team is, you know, doing really well, he may find himself as a as a starter. It really just depends. I mean, and it’s not anything crazy saying anything like that because you’ve seen guys before, you know, you’re muted. Well, Bam, I mean, it’s a perfect example. I mean, I I don’t think anybody projected Bam would be an all-star in his third season. He wasn’t even a starter in his first couple of years because he’s playing behind Hassan. Uh I just want to mention one other name here because he’s on the Heat coaching staff. I actually saw him the other night at Pro League. Karan Butler was the Heat’s 10th overall pick in 2002 and he made his first All-Star game in 2007, so his fifth season and then again in his sixth season. Now, he didn’t do it with Miami, but he was one of those guys who was considered to be, I guess, a fringe all-star, right? A borderline allar, not not like a superstar, not the front end of a team, honestly. Kind of. I mean, he’s made it around the same time Tyler did. Um, although it it took Karan going to another team to do it. So, I think probably Karan was probably ranked in about that place, even though obviously a completely different player than Tyler. Okay. So, I I’m I’m with you on where. I I think that there is huge variance on where the the variance is basically like if he gets it like they want him to get it then yes I absolutely think his numbers could put him in all-star consideration before too long honestly I don’t think this season but I but I I think it could be as early as his third or fourth season because I I do think he is and Adele talks about him and Adele’s not even his biggest fan as you know our guy Digital Adele but he calls him a walking double double like he just walks into numbers like he just he does like so the numbers are going to be there. Now whether or not that always leads to wins depends on whether he’s doing the little things that they want him to do. And another another thing that will will benefit Kh is that he’s not the lone man down there because he’s playing with an elite player like Bam. He’s going his numbers are going to reflect that. You get what I’m saying? So it’s like right he’s gonna benefit off playing with Bam as well. So, um, but that also may hurt him for things like all-star consideration, right? Because here’s where I come down on that. Okay, let’s say Bam is here next three, four seasons. Okay, let’s say they build the chemistry and they become one of the better front courts in the league, one of better front court duos in the league. Wear may put up bigger numbers than Bam in some regard, but if it comes down to the coaches, the coaches are going to vote for for Bam because there’s an appreciation for all the little things that he does. it may actually come back to bite in that regard. Um although I do think a lot of the things that BAM does are going to free wear up to put up numbers as you’re talking about. So I think I think it kind of works both ways. Only only way it buys Khalil is if they’re a losing team which you don’t expect them to be a losing team like forever, right? You’re muted. Yeah. If they are Well, I’m sorry because I was choking before, but that’s fine. We apologize to the listeners for that. But here’s the thing. If if they’re a losing team indefinitely, they probably won’t both be here together for very long anyway. No, so so that’s something to consider. But I I do think there’s pretty significant variance with where do think of all the young players, it’s hard to argue with the premise that he’s the most likely to become an allstar in short order. Let’s go to the next guy and then after the break we’ll talk about three others uh whom whom you know I think we would agree are further away. Uh Yovic. Mhm. The question with Yoic is not is he going to be an all-star because I just don’t at 21 and now he’s entering his third season. We’re still talking about okay what’s the role going to be here? All right listen I stopped you there before I I know you did. I know you did, but I think he’s got a better chance to be six man of the year than he does to this season than he does to be an all-star anytime soon. Am I wrong about that? So, before we move any further, because you killed me with the what’s his role and you didn’t pause on this and then you went to Vegas. You went to Vegas, asked the man himself and spoke looked you in your face and what did he say, Ethan? He had a role before he got hurt. We just don’t think I still I still don’t think that’s the permanent role though. But you trust you do you trust that that’s the permanent role? I suppose lied to my face before. Come on. I’m just saying like when I when I when I talk again when I talk about the role that he had is that he we saw him start to initiate offense a little bit more run actions and things like that or be the secondary action and things like that. Now, I don’t know what conversations you had with FO at training camp last year and after training camp and things of that nature, but when I caught him back in Memphis and some of the coaches, they talked about us getting Nico more active in some of the plays going into the season. It didn’t start that way, but they got around to it during that 32 game uh stretch before he got hurt. I mean, and we even saw that a little bit in the playoffs. Um, just in in very very small sample size, but we saw that a little bit in very high pressure situations. So, there is a role for him as far now when you get into starter coming off the bench, that’s a different conversation. U now I Yes, I think it is more likely Nico this year could get six man of the year versus a all-star nod. It depends on how things fall out. I don’t think this team unless some shakeup happen. Uh this team will be a middle ground team in in as far as the Eastern Conference. Uh depends on what happens. They could find themselves there. They maybe even find themselves as a top four team. I mean, we’ve seen weird [ __ ] happen before um during the regular season. Um they also be a 10. They they also could be a 10 seed again, right? They could they could, right? Um but I think with Nico specifically um you look at the numbers he like 124 and close to four 3.5 um during that 32 game stretch and so like if you get anything close to that during a stretch a whole stretch of the season now with Nico is going to be in consistency which you showed a little bit of that during that 32 game stretch but it’s going to be his health. So coming off of the uh the Euro League, if he can stay healthy for the majority stretch of the season, I do think his numbers are going to look um but let’s not but but but let’s project forward a little bit because I I I kind of sidetracked us I kind of sidetracked us with the all-star thing because I I I don’t obviously he’s not going to be an all-star this year. He probably won’t be six man of the year unless they do huge winning because his numbers are not he’s not going to be a big enough scorer for that. Okay. So I’m not projecting that either. I just think it could be a role that he thrives in again if they put him there, leave him there, put the ball in his hands. Uh, but as far as him being a star, do you think he has star potential? I I feel like he has like I think he has 30 to 90 in the league potential, right? Like that was that where you put him in two or three years if everything broke right? I can’t go against what I said in the past and then I would be a liar. Well, you you said he does. You think he does? Yeah. I I was saying I basically what I was saying is that I can’t say he will be a quality starter or just a star based off of what I’ve you know saying said before. So I still think everything breaks right and I’m sure y’all going to leave some scathing comments um in Spotify and in the YouTube area. But we we appreciate you guys listening. But I do think Nico has well I do I do I do think Nico has allstar in maybe MVP level play like potential. I really said I didn’t know you went that far. Okay. I you know that I said this [ __ ] before. So you’re going you’re going further with him then for where I well the thing but the thing is I think Kh can be a multi-allar maybe even DPY kind of player right but that for Kh that requires which to give a kid his credit he responded well after being called out not just on not on the court but also in his answers what he said yeah the poise as well so um I I do think which I’ll answer that later. I am. All right. Well, after the break, we got to get to the three other players. So, I and we’re running out of time, but I do I do want to just to close the thought on this. I I am a big Yovic fan, and I I obviously I’m stalling here for time to allow people to comment on you saying that you think he has MVP potential. Again, that’s all. I’m just I’m giving them I’m giving them the chance to weigh in on that. Do Do you understand how unlikely and remarkable this would be? Mhm. I mean, you should they should put Adam Simon in the Hall of Fame if this happens, like immediately to get with the 13th pick in the well for let’s start here with the 14th pick of the draft to get a two-time Olympic gold medalist and three time allar so far. With the 13th pick in the draft to get a guy who’s been an all-star at this stage and then additionally to get two guys who you believe have all-star potential, one of which could potentially be an MVP at play like MVP. I ain’t think he’s going to win one. I say play like a at at 15 and 27 in the draft. I mean, they ought to start the draft at 13. Anyway, we’ll get to the rest of this on the other side. This is why I love having you on because you you do stand by your principles on this stuff. And then if you’re right on this one, this is the ultimate one. Anyway, you know who’s right a lot about the heat? Lynette. Insurancebylanette.com. Two N’s and two T’s. Insurancebylanet.com. A aggressive insurance agency. She works out of a Lauder Hill office, but she can service the entire Tri County area. As I mentioned, huge Miami Heat fan. But for the purposes of this, what’s more important? Renters insurance, homeowners insurance, health insurance, car insurance, car insurance. She can help you uh fix things, get the right insurance for you, even if you have a bad driving record. Reach out to her at insurancebylanette.com. insurancebylanette.com. And she’s surely going to argue with you about the heat, uh, as Eternal does here. Okay, let’s get to three other players. I can we can we just can we rule out the possibility right now? Let’s start with Hakez and Larsson because Hakachonis is is so Did I do it again? By the way, Alex is going to get mad at me for pronouncing that in a Spanish way. Yak. Yakonis. I’m sorry. He does speak Spanish though. So, okay. All right. Cass, let let’s put him to the side for a second. All right. Kesha Johnson, Drew Smith. They have other young players. We’re not going to get into those. Let’s get into the guys that they’ve drafted. Um, what’s that? Drew Smith is 26. What’ I do? Drew is 26. I mean, he’s still young. He’s younger than me. Everybody is. All right, let’s get into Larson and Hawkins here. I We both agree that we’re not projecting allstar appearances for either of them, right? Even though Haime was first team, I was and I’m not out on Haime. Like I still think Haime can be a really good player. Uh I think my biggest concern with Hame is his health. Um that that can really shut a lot of things down for him. What part what part of what part of his health? The stomach virus ailments. I don’t injury. Bro just had a really bad just unlucky year. He’s had a bad run. Like I So I don’t I don’t know if it’s the hell. I don’t know if it’s the hell. We just did a whole episode on him. So I don’t want to dwell too much, but Okay. All right. I let let me put the question this way. Do you quality is harder for now, but how many correct correct do you think in in three years and remember Larson was a second round pick, too, so we got to temper expectations a little bit. There’s usually like two or three second round picks that hit every year and are still in the league and are productive. I mean, not everybody is Jokic, okay? So, uh, you know, that again there there’s a there’s a raised expectation level that that probably is not appropriate. In in three years, are Larson or Hawz regular starters here or somewhere else? Starters. Yeah. Do you think they are starters here or somewhere? Could be anywhere. Do you think they’re NBA starters in three years? I think with Hawkins, we would have said yes last season. I think now there’s backtracking, but I’m just adding Larson in the mix. Uh I’m I’m not sure. Yeah. I I if if you would position the question to be rotation like you know main stay rotation. I think Larson’s more likely than Hawkeyes in that case but I think Hakez is more likely to be a starter. Is that weird? No because I I feel like both of them could be mainstay rotation players within the next three years regardless of wherever they are in the league. Now, as far as start to go, that’s kind of hard because I the health [ __ ] is really unpredictable, right? Like you you never know which sport. Well, let let let’s let’s take let’s take health out of it. Let’s take health out of it. I mean, Larson plays like his hair’s on fire. I mean, he’s on the floor all the time. I mean, he’s going to get hurt at some point. So, let’s for both of them, let’s just take it out take it off the table. Okay. I think I think how many Yes. Larsson or no? Okay. Right. I agree with you on that, but I also, if you were to tell me, and I said this on the previous podcast I did on Hakez, if you were to tell me that Larson is in the league and a rotation player in three years, and Hakez is not, that wouldn’t surprise me either. I think Hakez is more likely to be the starter. Because here’s why I’m struggling with with Larsson as a long-term starter for someone. Is he going to shoot well enough? See, I feel like Haime’s game is different where if he can just get back to what he was doing before, he doesn’t necessarily have to be a great long-range shooter. I feel like with Larson, he’s only a starter in this league if he becomes a knockdown shooter, but he’s a rotation player regardless. Mhm. Hake I don’t know if is a ro rotation player regardless but I feel like there’s higher scoring upside for him if he can just kind of again as I’ve said on previous pod find a second act here in terms of the way that he attacks because he that’s in him but he just they scouted him out of it last year and he lost confidence and he never got back to it. I I just think I think it’s so weird because Hakez we talked about him having like sort of high floor low ceiling but now I’m actually saying I think with Hakez there’s a little bit more variance than Larson. I think Larson’s an NBA rotation player for the next 10 years. Mhm. But I don’t think he’ll ever be a full-time starter. Is that Is that strange that I would say that? No. No. No. I I I feel like Oh, there you are. No, you’re not. You’re just not speaking. I feel like Larson could find himself in a similar situation to like TA Tony Allen. Okay. Okay. Um, where Tony Allen was Tony Allen was a starter though. No, as far as like a he wasn’t in Boston, but he was he was in Memphis, right? That’s what I’m saying. Like if he’s not in Miami, he could find himself to be a starter in the right situation. Um, being kind of like a Caruso type player, you know, as far as like a a defender because that’s that’s his best part of his game is his defense. Um, Caruso is a better shooter. Caruso is a better shooter than Larson is now. That’s what that’s what Larson, but Caruso really didn’t have much of that. It’s funny. When Caruso was with the Lakers, he got hyped. And yes, the defense was there, but he got hyped when he really shouldn’t have gotten hyped. We know how that works in LA and the Great White Hope and all the rest of that stuff. Reeves has gotten some of that. Although Reeves is more skilled, but Russo since he and then he went to Chicago, but since he got to OKC, like he has a complete game now. like he’s a better player than he was with the Lakers. Uh I I I don’t I mean if Larson got to a Caruso level then yeah I mean then he’s a he’s a rotation player borderline starter on a championship team because Caruso is that at this stage but you know he was to me like the final piece for that OKC team. But I I I think Larson is going to be in the league a long time. I just I don’t think either of them really have star potential at this point. I don’t know how would necessarily get there. Um, I do think he can be a starter in the right situation again if he finds his confidence and gets a second act. All right, let’s talk about the other guy. And it’s so difficult to project this, but do you think that is Can you make any argument that I’m just going to go with Cass, can you make any argument that in five years, right, Cass is a star running a team? Do you think he has that type of potential? Yeah. Yeah. I think the kid has one of the things that been super super surprising is his level of I will get down and [ __ ] dirty with you. If you’re seeing that that now, right? Like he has excellent passing vision. Excellent excellent pass and and feel for the floor. Um gets two in the paint, all of that stuff. So like the things that Miami can work on, the things that they can can tweak, right? Like it to put it to put it in perspective, right? Kel has otherworldly physical gifts. And the thing the thing is if he gets the work ethic, I don’t really want to say that, but if he gets the like the little the details down, the focus, the focus is what you’re talking about. Professionalism said, right? Yes. If he gets that, watch out for Cass. Yeah, for Cass, he already has like the detail stuff. So, for them, it’s just kind of like tinkering out his those things that you can work on. And I I feel like for Cass, uh they they got something special. Um, and I yeah, I I definitely think he can be uh well, point guards take a long time to develop. I mean, there was there’s a guy who’s going to the Hall of Fame now in Steve Nash who really didn’t find it until like what he was 26. I mean, he won his first MVP at 32, 31. So, it can take a while. Um, I here’s the the only my concern about Cass is this. I I talked to uh and I’ll reveal this because it was just I I mean, he he does this stuff on the broadcast. Mark Jones called the games out and uh called at least two of his games out of some of them. I saw him again the other night. We’ve talked about Cass a little bit. His concern with Cass is just his ability to beat anybody off the dribble consistently without a screen. He he’s concerned about that and you know as a point guard you got to have a little of that in this league, right? Like and I don’t know physically that they’re going to make like you said he’s got the other stuff. He’s got the vision clearly has the work ethic. he competes on defense that in a in a really positive way. I think he’s a chance to be a plus defender, but he’s not going to get more physically imposing, I don’t think. So, that would that would be my only my only concern, and that’s something that Mark kind of flagged as he watched him. Well, the the thing with him as a big guard, especially 66, um he can bully guys on his way to the rim, but the the main thing for him, which is why I felt like that’s something that he can tweak, is tightening his handle. Same thing with Nico, right? if you have to tighten your handle if you’re going to be on ball so much. Um, then him he he if he gets craftier with his his tighter with his handle, his craftiness will help him as far as getting by guys, right? And his screen using the screen and everything like that. We also saw him like uh denying the screen, right? So like there’s going to be some things that come with just more game play, more game time and things of that nature. And then yeah, I I I think he will be fine. He’s not going to be like John Wall pass guys, Dwayne Wade pass guys. But I mean, we’ve seen point guards before who didn’t have that same burst, right? Still be able to be effective star point guards, not just, you know, um the league guy, but star point guards. So, yeah, I think he’d be fine. So, so the overall uh assessment of this, and I think you may be higher on this group than most. Mhm. is that they they have something to work with with this core. If you throw it in with Bam and Tyler, there’s no like everybody knew Kate Cunningham number one overall pick. Paulo number one overall pick. Like these guys were going to be stories. Like I it’s just a question of matter of time. You get busts in that, you know, you get bust at the there’s been lots of bust number two overall pick. Well, Anthony Bennett was a bust as a number one overall pick. So, there are guys are a bust. But with these guys, you’ve expected it. The Heat players, there’s more variance. There’s more development that needs to happen. There’s more work that the organization has to do. But this is an organization that is accustomed to doing that and they get the best chance with this particular group. The hope is that they’re allowed to learn through their mistakes uh without getting discouraged. That is the fine line that you have to find with all these young guys. I like their young core. I would say it’s like a B2B plus young core. I don’t think it jumps out as like an A young core. when we watched in 03 and we watched Wade, Odum and Karan like even with the losing early and they started 0 and7 you’re like wait a second like that’s you know you got I mean things I think Karan was 23 at the time ODM was 24 Dwayne came in what 21 22 and you’re like all right they stick with this now of course they didn’t stick with it they flipped it for Shaq and that worked out okay so we’ll see if this this group that they stick with this group but I’m encouraged by what they’ve put together here. Uh but I again I I think that if they’re if they’re going to need to supplement it. It’s not like you can just build a young core like they have with OKC or any of that because again they haven’t picked as high as some of those other teams. I’m glad you brought that up before we close out before anybody out there listening being like oh Eternal is is you know hell is wrong with him. When you think about like development and like teaching goals, like there are guys, like you said, who just walk in the league and they’re so [ __ ] talented, they can just they’ll be a star regardless of where they are, right? And then there are guys that takes the right type of gardener, right, in order to pull the potential out of them. And I think this is the type of group that you have basically, right? you can make quality starters out of Nico Khaz or whatever, but then if you with the development program that the Heat have and also too the environment has to be right, right? Like the environment has to be right and the the culture of the team has to be right and everything like that. whereas a certain excellence like you have that type of thing then guys can pull you can pull things out of guys that other situation wouldn’t have been able to pull out of you know that’s that that’s that’s fair I mean and there are a lot of players that have busted in the NBA because they went to black holes they went to you know quicksand basically uh there’s a whole lot of young players that you’re like well that was a busted pick and everybody assumes it was the player but then you look at the organization And you’re like, “Yes, Sacramento picked wrong for about 15 years, but maybe if they’d picked the other guy, that guy wouldn’t have worked out.” And the guy that, you know, maybe Marvin Bagley, if he was drafted somewhere else, would have been a superstar and Luca would have sucked if he’d gone to Sacramento. Probably not. But you you you get my point. There is there is uh an influence based on it’s, you know, it’s nature versus nurture, right? Like everything else in life. Eternal, we got to go 33 minutes. We’re naturing nurturing off the set here. Uh check out more episodes. Obviously, Eternals work as well on Discord and on playback. Have a good night, everybody.

The Miami Heat have an interesting young core. But is there a star in the mix? Someone who can make an All-Star game eventually, as Bam Adebayo and Tyler Herro have? Eternal Bast says yes. He joins Ethan Skolnick to discuss five growing players.

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