I spent a better part of my afternoon brainstorming an appropriate nickname for this group of Miami Heat reserves. Hey, it’s only a 10-game sample size but seems to me they have a nostalgic quality to them. A novelty even. Think, San Antonio bench cira 2012 staring Boris Diaw, Patty Mills and Manu Ginobili or the Bulls back ups in 2010 that featured Taj Gibson, Kyle Korver and CJ Watson, coined the “Bench Mob.”
After hours of pondering, I told myself not to overthink it. Pat Riley is known as the Godfather so naturally I settled on the “Bench Mafia.