2023-05-30 10:52:00
We all think (we know) that the talent of high Draft picks can strengthen a team and take it even higher. But in South Florida, we also like players who weren’t lucky enough to be selected when they left school. The Heat thus set a record during these 2023 Playoffs, with the largest number of non-drafted players having played in the same jersey and in the Playoffs for 56 years.
It’s finally done. Miami is in the NBA Finals once morest Denver, following the Heat turned the air conditioning on all over Boston with their victory in Game 7. The hero of this meeting? Caleb Martin and his 26 points. The boy drafted in… Oh no, he wasn’t drafted. Like six other Heat players, Mr. Martin did not experience the joy of being called on stage on Draft day. Gabe Vincent, Max Strus, Caleb Martin, Duncan Robinson, Udonis Haslem, Haywood Highsmith and Omer Yurtseven: here are the seven South Beach players who helped the Heat make League history. Indeed, no one has had so many unselected players in their team in the Playoffs since the introduction of the new Draft model, that is to say in 57 years. Just wow.
The Heat have had 7 undrafted players play this postseason.
That is the most undrafted players to play in a postseason for a team to appear in the Finals in the Modern Draft Era (since 1966-67). pic.twitter.com/qWFcSv6KkC
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) May 30, 2023
Seven undrafted players used in post-season, and nine in regular season, a nice total that constitutes half of a classic NBA workforce, or even more. These boys have a dream and do everything to achieve it, they spend their days in a gym or in the weight room, multiply their presence on events or on social networks to be seen. And Erik Spoelstra loves this mentality of beating and sacrificing to get to a goal, a state of mind that paid off in the play-in tournament until this last game of the Eastern Conference Finals. The Heat is a team built on that warrior mentality, which also allowed Miami to become the second eighth seed to reach the NBA Finals. Next objective for these undraftedthe ring !
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