There were a lot of impressive elements to this Heat season, but here's one of the remarkable revelations that crystallized over the past six months:
The Heat ended up getting incredible value with their draft assets.
Over the past three years, the Heat had two first-round picks late in the lottery and one second-round pick.
And yet, of all the players eligible for the 2017, 2018 and 2019 NBA Drafts, the Heat has emerged with one player (Bam Adebayo) who's worthy of top five selection, another (Tyler Herro) who's warrants a top 10 selection and two undrafted players (Duncan Robinson and Kendrick Nunn) who could make a strong case to be lottery picks if teams knew then what everyone knows now.
As a fun exercise, we examined _ with input from an NBA scout _ where these four players would have been selected in those three drafts if teams knew what the four players _ and everybody else drafted those years _ would become today:
