Five Stars is a Hot Hot Hoops exclusive where we dig into the box score of each Heat game and pick apart the numbers under the numbers. The top five players are the Five Stars, regardless of which team they player for. I used the GameScore metric, with a slight adjustment for plus/minus to rank the players.
First Star
Hassan Whiteside (MIA) 28.4
Whiteside had game-high’s with 46 minutes on the floor, 32 points, 15 rebounds, and five rejections. He shot 14-for-22 from the floor with four-for-six successes from the foul stripe. Four of his rebounds were offensive, and he added a steal and a minus-3 rating for an approximate Player Efficiency Rating (PER) of 22.