Kel'el Ware's start to the 2025-26 NBA season has been packed with ups and downs, jubilations and frustrations, imagination-inducing stat lines and frustration-filled bouts of indifference. It has been, in frankly unsurprising ways, a full display of the Kel'el Ware experience.
Remember when Heat coach Erik Spoelstra felt the need to call out his young center this summer for similarly lethargic stretches? It wasn't surprising then, just like the frustration around Ware's ongoing inconsistency isn't surprising now.
This is, unfortunately, who he has been and who he is. And in order for Miami to ever take the next step, it will have to solve this puzzle once and for all.