The script is worthy of a Hollywood movie .

Talented player who is a star in the institute . He makes the leap to a good university and improves with the months until he begins to have problems off the tracks . He introduces himself to the NBA draft and nobody selects him. Try to gain a place in the development leagues, without luck. Suddenly he receives a call, gets a chance at a summer tournament and curdles a great game. Sign a small contract and debut in the NBA. The star of the team is injured and they give him more opportunities. Curdle another great match . The star of the team returns to play and he makes another great game ... The public loves him and curd another great game ...

And so, he scores more points than LeBron James and Dwyane Wade in their first five games as Miami Heat players.

Kendrick Nunn is 24 years old and doesn't want the movie to ever end. He has 112 points scored in the first five games he has played as a Heat player. More than anyone in the history of the franchise. More than (almost) anyone in the last 25 years of NBA . Only Kevin Durant and Jerry Stackhouse scored more points in their first five nights in the league.

24 points against Memphis, 18 against Milwaukee, 25 against Minnesota and 17 and 28 in the two duels that the Heat have had against Atlanta in the last three days.

Kendrick Nunn's movie

Nunn was born in Chicago in the summer of 1995 , in full swing of the Michael Jordan Bulls. He followed in the footsteps of Derrick Rose , also born in the capital of Illinois, number 1 draft and MVP of the NBA. In 2012 he reached an agreement with the state university and became one of the best rookies in the competition. He played three seasons there until he pleaded guilty to assaulting a woman and was expelled. He completed 18 months of community service, did not play throughout the 2016-2017 academic year and moved to Oakland , where he would play in the NCAA with the Golden Grizzlies. The world ate on the West Coast. He finished second in scoring across the country just behind Trae Young , who is now one of the visible faces of the league.

He introduced himself to the 2018 draft and despite his great season, he weighed his almost 23 years, the unplayed course of 16-17 and his messes off the track. Franchises prefer to select younger players that they can mold, and if they risk a player 22 years or older, it is because they see that they can contribute something to the rotation in that same season. With Nunn it wasn't like that .

In spite of everything, he got a contract with the Golden State Warriors for the 2018 summer league, but those in San Francisco got rid of him before the start of the season. He then went to the Santa Cruz Warriors , his affiliated team in the G League, the NBA development league. He played almost 50 games, scoring 19 points per night. His good performances attracted the attention of the Miami Heat, who trusted him and signed him on April 10, 2019. The last day of the regular season.

And his explosion came.

He scored 21 points on average in the Las Vegas summer tournament and 24 in the California tournament, earning at least one place to make the pre-season month before the start of the regular league, where the last positions of the rotation. 2 points in seven minutes, 13 points in 26 minutes, 14 points in 14 minutes ... And in the last preseason game of the Heat, on their last chance, 40 points against the Houston Rockets of James Harden. The last day of the preseason. Chance.

Kendrick Nunn is 24 years old and has finally earned a place in the rotation of an NBA franchise. And we'll see if anything else.

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