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Heat rookie Bam Adebayo learning 'how to be a beast' at Camp Howard | Miami Herald

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Bam Adebayo wasn’t alive when Heat assistant coach Juwan Howard played in his first and only All-Star Game back in 1996.

The Heat’s first round pick was born a year later. By the time Adebayo, 20, was becoming a budding basketball star, Howard, 44, was in the twighlight of his 19-year playing career, serving more as a mentor while collecting a pair of rings on the Heat’s bench.

So how did the Heat’s young fella get to know what his future position coach was like as a player?

“I watched the [ESPN 2011 documentary] Fab Five movie,” Adebayo said Thursday.