The start of the NBA season is usually a time for frivolity.
Teams embrace their rosters’ fresh legs as game scores sore into the stratosphere, while players thought too decrepit to perform, provide flashbacks to yesteryear. With 82 games to look forward to, the start of the NBA season is a limitless well of potential.
The Miami Heat have drawn from that well at least a handful of times already.
Rodney McGruder, a former starter in the 2016-17 campaign, has regained and surpassed his former glory, just as Hassan Whiteside has stowed his once problematic attitude securely and in an upright position, out of sight of the AmericanAirlines Arena.