MIAMI – To a guy who’s played on a 10-day contract, having 45 days to prove yourself feels like a four-year deal.
Dwight Buycks’ basketball odyssey has taken him to the other side of the world – he’s spent the last three seasons in China – with stops in France, Belgium and Spain, places where contracts sometimes don’t carry the same ironclad guarantee they do in the NBA.
So when Buycks took the court in Miami late in Wednesday’s first quarter – his first real shot at winning backup minutes behind Ish Smith while Reggie Jackson spends the next several weeks rehabilitating a grade 3 ankle sprain – he wasn’t distracted by the tick-tock of the NBA clock in his head.