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Miami Heat select Bam Adebayo with the No. 14 pick in the NBA Draft

With their top targets no longer available, the Miami Heat select Kentucky center Bam Adebayo with the No. 14 pick in the NBA Draft.

The Heat were reportedly interested in Gonzaga’s Zach Collins, Louisville’s Donovan Mitchell and Duke’s Luke Kennard, but with all three of them being select before Miami’s pick, the Heat took a center who may have been the best available player on their board.

Adebayo, 19, is a is a 6-foot-10 center, with a 7-foot-3 wingspan, and projects as a rim runner and rim protector in the NBA. He averaged 13 points, 8.0 rebounds and 1.