Miami Heat guard Tyler Herro is your 2025 3-point contest champion!
The sixth-year guard became the fifth-ever Heat player to win the 3-point contest Saturday evening, joining James Jones (2011), Daequan Cook (2009), Jason Kapono (2007) and Glen Rice (1995).
Both rounds to determine Herro’s fate came down to the last shot. In the first round, Herro finished with a 19, trailing only Cavaliers guard Darius Garland (24) at the time of the result. Warriors guard Buddy Hield finished with a 31 thereafter, leaving Herro in third place ahead of Cam Johnson, Norman Powell and Cade Cunningham.
With only the top-3 advancing, it came down to the back-to-back 3-point contest champion in Damian Lillard, who missed his final “money rack” shot, which kept him at 18.
Herro was first in the final round, netting a 24 while knocking down both of his “Starry Balls,” deeper threes displaced at both wings; he made three of his four Starry balls on the night, which was a huge difference in him winning because very few were made.
Garland flamed out with 17, leaving Hield as the lone challenger in front of his home crowd. After his scorching hot opening round, Hield struggled, missing the entirety of his first rack and nine of his first 15. He eventually found a rhythm, but entered the final rack (money rack) needing to make all five, since he was at just 15.
Hield made his first three, but missed his fourth, giving Herro the win.
Mac McClung may be saving the dunk contest by himself, but the 3-point contest has surpassed it for the best event on All-Star Saturday night. And Herro is now the champion of it.
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Well deserved herro, he will definitely go into the pantheon of one of the best shooter’s all time, when it’s all said and done.
i said month or so ago second best shooter in nba we know who # 1 is.with his improved d he is def a top 20 player
High level three point accuracy under pressure just one of many in Ty’s skill package.
Great. Not really an important thing, but still great.
congrats Tyler! now continue to hone ur defensive skills. we already know you can shoot
Congratulations Tyler! Now Riley just needs to put at least one more A player around you, Bam and Ware, preferably a very good two-way point guard.
… have we forgotten about Wiggins already?
I was thinking longer term but you are right. For the next two years Ware, Bam, Wiggins and Herro are 4 of the teams starting 5.
A playmaking two-way PG who can score and who excels in leadership and decision making, would make a ton of difference on this team. Teammates count on the PG to make the best decisions to set his team up for easy points. Whether it’s by exploiting the defense or making the perfect pass. The PG also has to lead the team in tough times. Although shooting, passing and playmaking are needed to play at a high level, decision making and leadership are probably the two most important qualities. The 2020 (bubble/NBA Playoffs) version of Dragic is probably the closest thing the Heat has had to a quality PG in the past few years. Lowry was already over the hill and out of shape by the time he came to Miami.
Let’s not beat around the bush: what we need is Mario Chalmers.
Fox would have been awesome.
Dang Tyler. First an All-Star, now the 3-point shootout. Hopefully this guy comes back from the break with the confidence to lead this team to the playoffs.
I hope not. Play-in round ok. Playoffs, not so much. I would prefer to get our own lottery pick and Golden State’s first round (possibly lottery) pick as well, so the team can expedite it’s retooling process. If we make it to the playoffs, we will almost certainly get massacred in the first round by Cleveland, Boston or New York. Is the objective to win a championship or simply to be able to say we made it to the playoffs (where we got our asses kicked and lost a lottery pick)?
When I first saw you suggest this, I wasn’t so sure. The reason I felt that way was that if we do not convey the draft pick to Oklahoma this season, then both that pick as well as the Charlotte pick both become fully unprotected. However, I now see your point. If we get both our lottery pick plus another top 20 pick via the Warriors, we stand to get two very good players. Then, after the season, if we further improve the team with a trade or two, those unprotected picks will likely be somewhere in the mid teens at best. And, as you and I have pointed out, there are a lot of quality players in this draft all the way into the 20s.
Exactly! Remember, if Butler, Curry or Green get hurt, and Golden State does not make it to the play-in round, they will get to keep their first round (lottery) pick. If the Heat makes the playoffs, OKC gets Miami’s first round pick. Miami has no second round pick.
Riley has barely been keeping Miami’s head above water by bringing in marginal players to make the play-in round/playoffs. By doing that, Miami has missed out on the top players in the draft, year after year. All the young teams have several very good top 10 draft picks on their rosters. OKC, Boston, Houston, San Antonio, Memphis, etc.
This is the Heat’s first and last opportunity in several years to make a splash in the draft. If one bird in the hand is better than two in the bush, then two birds in the hand are even better.
First All-Rookie Team,
Second 6th Man of the Year,
Third All-Star,
Fourth 3 Point Contest Winner.
Congratulations Tyler Herro! Now bring more of that shooting back when we start up again!
Congrats Herro, Your dad , mum and siblings will be proud of you!