Tyler Herro

Appearing human, perhaps for the first time on November 12, 2024, Tyler Herro explained the atmosphere of the seemingly-unlikely back-and-forth game against the Detroit Pistons to be one that featured “emotions flying in multiple directions.” On the second-hottest regular-season scoring game of his career to date, the night’s opponents might describe his 3-point bonanza through a nearly-identical phrase. Somehow powerful enough to force overtime — even with the Miami Heat trailing by nine in the final 1:22 — Herro, unphased by a three-point deficit, races the floor in transition in preparation of perhaps his night’s most heroic play. Given almost no time to release freely with Jaden Ivey invading his airspace, Herro merely elevates into a crowd-quieting trifecta, curtaining a breathtaking three-triples-in-50-seconds sequence. Even in defeat, Herro’s refined shot diet, ripe with more long-range "kabooms" and less long 2-pointers, remained among the evening’s most-discussed, as the sixth-year swingman erupted for 40 points (on 14-of-27 shooting), five rebounds, eight assists, four steals, and 10 3-pointers.