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Do the Miami Heat Have an All-Star Candidate Besides Bam Adebayo?

The NBA is discussing the possibility of picking an All-Star Team regardless if the game is played

Shandel Richardson

Last year the Miami Heat had the luxury of having an impressive record to fall back on when it came to stating a case for NBA All-Stars. 

This year, not so much the case. 

At 6-10 entering Wednesday's game against the Denver Nuggets, the Heat are a far cry from the team that shocked the league in the first half of the year on the way to making the Finals. 

The league is in discussions of possibly hosting a game in Atlanta in March, according to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski and Shams Charania of The Athletic. The game was initially was supposed to be played in Indianapolis before being postponed because of the COVID-19 outbreak. 

Charania reported the league will choose an All-Star team regardless if the game is played.

 With voting set to begin Thursday and run through Feb. 15, the question is do the Heat have any other candidates other than center Bam Adebayo? Last year he accompanied Jimmy Butler to Chicago for the event in February. 

Adebayo, who leads the team, in scoring, rebounding and assists, is considered a virtual lock. Butler is about to miss his ninth straight game because of COVID-19 and hasn't been nearly productive as last season. Even with Tyler Herro having a breakout, the Heat will almost certainly have to push above .500 in the next two weeks to have a shot at a second All-Star. 

Even then, the chances are slim. 

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SHANDEL RICHARDSON

Shandel has covered the NBA since 2010, with previous stops at The Athletic and South Florida Sun-Sentinel.  He has covered six NBA Finals, one Super Bowl, the NCAA basketball tournament. He has also been a beat writer for the Miami Hurricanes and contributed on every major beat in South Florida since 2003, including the Miami Dolphins and Miami Marlins. He can also be read in the Sportsbook Review for gambling coverage from around the NBA. A native of Bloomington, Illinois, Shandel attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He's also worked for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Kansas City Star.  TWITTER: @ShandelRich EMAIL: shandelrich@gmail.com You can subscribe to our YouTube channel here Follow all of our Miami Heat coverage on Facebook here

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