Before the season, I said that Caleb Martin, who is on a two-way contract, “could become a consistent rotation player.” But I didn’t see how quickly Erik Spoelstra would come to rely on the 6-foot-5 swingman. Martin played the entire fourth quarter of Tuesday’s comeback win over the Detroit Pistons.
Players on two-way contracts are only allowed to play 50 games with their NBA team. Martin has already played in 15 games — all but three early-season games in October. He’s played at least 14 minutes in each game since Markieff Morris suffered neck whiplash after Nikola Jokic’s flagrant foul in Miami’s Nov.