The life of Tyler Herro, the hero of the Miami Heat: death threats in high school, insults, graffiti ...

• NBA.Tyler Herro: the boy who executed the Boston Celtics

In the first game of the 2017-2018

,

suffered one of the most chilling injuries ever seen on a basketball court.

as her leg stared straight ahead.

Both his teammates in the Boston Celtics and his rivals in the Cleveland Cavaliers put their hands to their faces and began to cry. A man from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, saw that image on television and decided to send a letter to the young promise of high school

Local uto: "

."

It was one of the many letters that were reaching the Whitnall College at that time in the name of

(Milwaukee, January 20, 2000).

The 17-year-old had just

and had the whole town angry.

His neighbors painted his house red, wrote insults on its walls, threatened to kill him when they passed him on the street, threw tomatoes and eggs at his car ... But Tyler did not give in and left with the famous

, who had already molded stars such as

for the NBA

. Already in Kentucky, rival fans tried to intimidate him with posters showing his face on the body of a snake.

A priori and beyond the provocations,

in just a few months.

Had a rating of 4 stars, one less than the considered elite level players institute, and many thought their condition white escort without physical nor defense was going to hurt, but in college were enamored with his work ethic:

to train, go to class, after exercising with his equipment and, if he had the strength (usually he did), he would stay in the gym for a while longer.

"

" Calipari joked in the Sun-Sentinel in January.

"I used to mess with him to try to lower his morale and he would look at me as if there was nothing I could do," he acknowledged.

If your neighbors couldn't, neither could 'Coach Cal'.

Discipline in training ran in the family.

His father Chris was a high school star, but a knee injury kept him from basketball and over the years made him focus his efforts on Tyler.

The 12 who came before him in the draft

Herro played every game in the college league and scored an

, the quarterfinals where Kentucky was eliminated.

On the table, a spectacular year, one of the best players in the NCAA and an overwhelming personality: "I like having people against me and I don't care who is in front of me, I feel like I'm going to kill them," he admitted in Bleacher Report.

And the

arrived

.

And with him the twelve players who were chosen before him.

, phenomenon of the year, and

, Rookie of the season, at No. 1 and 3. And in between, some who had reached the Final Four of the college tournament or promises to which they put a higher ceiling than yours.

Miami Heat

was his destination.

In the summer he got a tattoo on his chest '

' and went to Chicago before preseason to train with

, the star signing of the franchise, known for putting a lot of pressure on his companions.

In the first 15 meetings of the regular league he exceeded double figures and has had peaks of 30 during the season.

And

, which did not stop him either.

After the closure of the Heat facilities, he looked for some high school courts in Miami and continued to train twice a day to prepare the Orlando bubble.

The result?

Butler adores him.

His coach, Eric Spoelstra, is exhausted, and his teammates trust him so much to assist him in the 37 points he scored in Game 4 of the East final against the Boston Celtics.

At the age of 20 and making his debut in the Playoffs, as

in 1980. One step away from being the

.

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